Basketball

‘I marked this game’: Giannis Antetokounmpo shows what happens when you upset the reigning MVP


MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo doesn’t forget. Just ask Bruno Caboclo.

What did he do to wrong Antetokounmpo? Well, let’s go back to this past offseason.

Antetokounmpo and the Greek National Team took on Brazil in the first round of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup on Tuesday, Sep. 3. After beating Montenegro convincingly, 85-60, in their first game of the tournament, the Greeks could not get much of anything going against the Brazilians and failed to create any space for Antetokounmpo to operate offensively. For much of the game, they didn’t even put the ball in his hands, but they trailed by only two in the game’s waning moments.

With 6.8 seconds left, the Greek team tried to throw Antetokounmpo an alley-oop on its sideline inbounds play, but it failed. The pass was swatted away, Antetokounmpo fouled out and the Greeks eventually lost 79-76. The man who swatted that alley-oop away and looked over…





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