{"id":703188,"date":"2026-04-07T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:46:21","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-has-made-a-clear-statement-to-the-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703188\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo has made a clear statement to the Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/giannis_antetokounmpo\/261031\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> and the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee_bucks\/72\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> remain at odds over whether he should be shut down for the season, and Antetokounmpo is attempting to lay down the law behind the scenes. <\/p>\n<p> ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania appeared on \u201cNBA Today\u201d Monday and revealed that Antetokounmpo is still trying to ramp up in order to play before the end of the season. The star forward\u2019s goal is to be able to play at least one game with brothers Alex and Thanasis. He mentioned Friday\u2019s home finale against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn_nets\/64\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> as a game Antetokounmpo could target to play in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiannis is trying to ramp up this week, from my understanding,\u201d Charania said. \u201cHe wants to play with his brothers before the regular season ends. He\u2019s making very clear behind the scenes that\u2019s his goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks remain at odds over whether he should be shut down for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-703188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-milwaukeebucks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116363263838617580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}