{"id":698,"date":"2025-08-15T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:20:57","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-gets-brutally-honest-about-his-2021-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/giannis-antetokounmpo-gets-brutally-honest-about-his-2021-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo Gets Brutally Honest About His 2021 Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_462684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462684\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462684 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Milwaukee Bucks v Indiana Pacers - Game Five\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2212656567-scaled-1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Justin Casterline\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo won his first championship with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/sports\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> in 2021, but it almost didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because he suffered a hyperextended knee during his team\u2019s run to a championship.<\/p>\n<p>He was able to play through it, but says it still bothers him to this day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI still feel it\u2026 I think I\u2019m going to feel it until I die,\u201d Antetokounmpo said, via Legion Hoops.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-script=\"true\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giannis on playing through a hyperextended knee in the 2021 NBA Finals:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still feel it\u2026 I think I\u2019m going to feel it until I die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via Yahoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PAxBSRkHgZ\">pic.twitter.com\/PAxBSRkHgZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1956134146289623509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Antetokounmpo was definitely hurt during that Finals campaign, but he was still a monster through it all.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 30.2 points,12.8 rebounds, and 5.1 assists on 56.9 percent from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>He definitely earned his Finals MVP trophy and was a vital part of the Bucks\u2019 success that year.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the Bucks haven\u2019t been able to repeat that success, and injuries to Antetokounmpo have been part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>He is sadly not able to stay as healthy as he would like and the worse his body is, the worst the team\u2019s chances are.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Antetokounmpo averaged 30.4 points and 11.9 rebounds so he is obviously still playing at an extremely high level.<\/p>\n<p>But the injury he suffered back in 2021 is still there, still nagging him, and might not go away ever.<\/p>\n<p>Can he still lead his team to the postseason promised land even with that knee issue plaguing him?<\/p>\n<p>Unlike certain other stars in the NBA, he doesn\u2019t make it obvious that he\u2019s hurt but this admission from Antetokounmpo is troubling and will give all Bucks fans pause, especially because they have such high hopes about the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/giannis-antetokounmpo-gets-brutally-honest-about-his-2021-injury\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo Gets Brutally Honest About His 2021 Injury<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Justin Casterline\/Getty Images) \u00a0 Giannis Antetokounmpo won his first championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021, but it almost didn\u2019t happen. That\u2019s because he suffered a hyperextended knee during his team\u2019s run to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/giannis-antetokounmpo-gets-brutally-honest-about-his-2021-injury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giannis Antetokounmpo Gets Brutally Honest About His 2021 Injury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.osteodomicile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}