{"id":39605,"date":"2026-03-04T03:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-giannis-antetokounmpo-rusty-on-comeback-as-celtics-beat-bucks\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:13:05","slug":"nba-giannis-antetokounmpo-rusty-on-comeback-as-celtics-beat-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-giannis-antetokounmpo-rusty-on-comeback-as-celtics-beat-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Giannis Antetokounmpo rusty on comeback as Celtics beat Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo said he &#8220;did not play well&#8221; on his return from injury but the two-time NBA MVP was just &#8220;happy&#8221; to be back on the court.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old made his comeback after missing six weeks of action with a calf strain in a 108-81 defeat against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put up 19 points, 11 rebounds and two assists in 25 minutes in a defeat that left the 2021 champion Bucks 11th in the Eastern Conference with a 26-34 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antetokounmpo said &#8220;we&#8217;ve got 24 games left &#8211; it&#8217;s 24 fights&#8221; when asked about the Bucks&#8217; battle to reach the post-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously I did not play well, but at the end of the day, I&#8217;m just happy that I&#8217;m out there being able to help my team-mates in any way that I can and just do what I love, which is play basketball,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c4g400lvx3do?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo said he &#8220;did not play well&#8221; on his return from injury but the two-time NBA MVP was just &#8220;happy&#8221; to be back on the court. The 31-year-old made his comeback after missing six weeks of action with a calf strain in a 108-81 defeat against the Boston Celtics. He put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39607,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39605\/revisions\/39607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}