Milwaukee Bucks celebrity Giannis Antetokounmpo is anticipated to return to the lineup towards the Chicago Bulls on Saturday evening, per The Athletic. Antetokounmpo hasn’t performed since Dec. 3, when he suffered a calf pressure towards the Detroit Pistons, however will likely be again on the court docket in Chicago so long as he will get via pregame checks with the Bucks’ medical workers.
Antetokounmpo has missed eight video games whereas coping with the harm, and the Bucks went 2-6 in that span. In consequence, Antetokounmpo — ought to he play Saturday as anticipated — rejoins a workforce that is 12-19 and in eleventh place within the Japanese Convention. That ought to solely reignite the commerce rumors that swirled round Antetokounmpo proper earlier than his harm.
Earlier this month, stories surfaced that Antetokounmpo was eyeing a possible exit from Milwaukee. The 2-time NBA MVP did his finest to shift blame onto his illustration however acknowledged that his agent finally works for him and never the opposite method round.
“If my agent is speaking to the Bucks about it, he’s his personal individual. He can have any dialog he desires about it,” Antetokounmpo stated. “On the finish of the day, I do not work for my agent, my agent works for me. There’s going to be conversations which are going to be made between him and the Bucks and him and his different gamers and him and different groups and different GMs, executives across the league.”
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The state of affairs may very well be headed towards a messy cut up with each events making their justifiable share of errors all through this saga. For now, Antetokounmpo stays a member of the Bucks, and he’ll attempt to assist as Milwaukee claw its method again into the postseason image.
By means of 17 video games this season, Antetokounmpo has been as productive as ever. He is averaging 28.9 factors, 10.1 rebounds and 6.1 assists per sport. He is additionally capturing 63.9% from the sphere, which is a profession excessive.
