Giannis Antetokounmpo? Who is that? Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of my favorite players in the NBA and is my favorite player from the Milwaukee Bucks. His last name has 13 letters in it! Did you know that Antetokounmpo is Greek? Giannis Antetokounmpo is a Greek basketball player who plays in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks. My goal of this paper is to inform you about Giannis Antetokounmpo, how hard his life was in his childhood, his talents, and why he has been “big talk” lately.
He was born into poverty on the lowest rung of Greek society in Athens December 6 1994. He is 23 years old. His parents are Nigerian and were immigrants. He is the third out of five children, which are all boys. Thanasis, Kostas, Giannis, …show more content…
In his first all-star game he wasn’t on the same team as Stephen Curry because Curry played with the west and Giannis played with the east Antetokounmpo went for a fast break dunk and a little past half court Stephen Curry laid down on the floor in the middle like he was acting scared and just let Giannis go all the way for the dunk.
One common thing you will hear his teammates say is “He’ll posturize you…but politely,” because he posturized someone really badly and some t-shirt designer from around Milwaukee wanted to take the picture of it and paste it on the shirt, but Giannis would not let him because he didn’t want to be rude and lose that guy’s reputation or self-esteem. The team is also known for the quote “Fear the deer” which is actually on shirts and are selling in stores while watching some of the games you can see some people with “Fear the deer” shirts on. On Giannis’s twitter account after a big game for him and the Milwaukee Bucks he tweeted, “I got loyalty inside my DNA,” with an emoji of a goat after it because if you are really good at something people will say “You are the