{"id":430178,"date":"2025-02-26T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=430178"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:06:03","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-on-amen-thompsons-flagrant-2-no-hard-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/giannis-antetokounmpo-on-amen-thompsons-flagrant-2-no-hard-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo on Amen Thompson&#8217;s Flagrant 2: &#8220;No Hard Feelings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"968\" data-end=\"1184\">Despite a hard fall, <strong data-start=\"989\" data-end=\"1014\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> holds no grudge against <strong data-start=\"1039\" data-end=\"1056\">Amen Thompson<\/strong>, who was <strong data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1077\">ejected<\/strong> for a <strong data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1103\">flagrant foul 2<\/strong> in the closing minutes of the <strong data-start=\"1134\" data-end=\"1173\">Milwaukee Bucks vs. Houston Rockets<\/strong> matchup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1421\">With <strong data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1204\">4:30 left<\/strong> and the Bucks down by two, Thompson <strong data-start=\"1241\" data-end=\"1281\">grabbed Giannis by the neck and head<\/strong>, pulling him down hard. After a <strong data-start=\"1314\" data-end=\"1324\">review<\/strong>, officials ruled the foul <strong data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1380\">unnecessary and excessive<\/strong>, resulting in <strong data-start=\"1395\" data-end=\"1418\">Thompson\u2019s ejection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1573\"><em data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1536\">&#8220;I love guys that play hard. Sometimes competitive nature leads to bad decisions, but I have no hard feelings,&#8221;<\/em> said Antetokounmpo after the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amen Thompson ejected for a Flagrant 2 on Giannis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1zjFTB52Q8\">pic.twitter.com\/1zjFTB52Q8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoopCentral\/status\/1894584852827242638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 4:30 left and the Bucks down by two, Thompson grabbed Giannis by the neck and head, pulling him down hard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-430178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430178"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=430178"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=430178"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=430178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}