{"id":825716,"date":"2026-09-01T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/825716\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:06:19","slug":"thanasis-antetokounmpo-signs-with-aris-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/825716\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanasis Antetokounmpo Signs With Aris BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetth01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thanasis Antetokounmpo<\/a> is headed back to Greece for the 2026\/27 season, having signed with Aris BC, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arisbasketball.com\/en\/first-team\/thanasis-antetokounmpo-signing-arisbc-en.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release from the team<\/a>. Antetokounmpo\u2019s new contract is a two-year deal that includes a third-year team option.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Thanasis-Antetokounmpo-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-489395\"  \/>The older brother of two-time NBA MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetgi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, Thanasis has spent six of the past seven seasons playing in Milwaukee alongside Giannis. He wasn\u2019t on the Bucks\u2019 roster in 2024\/25 while he recovered from an Achilles tear but made 230 total regular season appearances for the team from 2019-26, averaging 2.3 points and 1.5 rebounds in 7.2 minutes per night.<\/p>\n<p>Following the blockbuster trade that sent Giannis to Miami, the expectation was that Thanasis would likely continue his career overseas unless the Heat pursued him. While he\u2019ll no longer be teammates with Giannis, Thanasis will still compete alongside one of his brothers, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetko01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kostas Antetokounmpo<\/a> also signed with Aris BC <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/international-notes-mykhailiuk-markovic-d%d1%91min-huertas-more.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earlier this offseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the third stint competing in Greece for Thanasis, an Athens native. He played for Filathlitikos from 2011-13 and then suited up for Panathinaikos from 2017-19.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, who won a pair of domestic titles with Panathinaikos in 2018 and 2019 and an NBA title with Milwaukee in 2021, has also represented the Greek national team several times, including in multiple EuroBasket and World Cup tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo is joining an Aris squad that had a 14-10 record in the Greek Basketball League last season and went 8-10 in EuroCup play. The team has had an active summer, having signed NBA veterans like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/birchkh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Khem Birch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/robinje02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeremiah Robinson-Earl<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/liddeej01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-01_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">E.J. Liddell<\/a> in addition to the two Antetokounmpo brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent forward Thanasis Antetokounmpo is headed back to Greece for the 2026\/27 season, having signed with Aris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6,12289],"class_list":["post-825716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-thanasis-antetokounmpo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117197117164971881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825716","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=825716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}