HOUSTON – Kyle Korver read the Giannis Antetokounmpo quote and shook his head in disbelief just like everyone else.
It’s July 12, just days before Korver will decide to spend his 17th season with his old coach, Mike Budenholzer, and his Milwaukee Bucks, and the veteran sharpshooter notices an article in which the NBA’s MVP was discussing his own developmental shortcomings.
The premise alone was enough to grab anyone’s attention, if only because stars who earn the league’s top individual honor are – one would think – typically playing at their personal peak. It’s like the Nobel Peace Prize award winner saying she/he hasn’t yet made the world a better place.
But here was Antetokounmpo, the 24-year-old who has taken this remarkable journey from the streets of Greece to these elite basketball heights, trying to tell the basketball world that there was a whole lot more where this came from.
“I think I am at 60 percent of my…
