{"id":455524,"date":"2025-08-17T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=455524"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:33:00","slug":"greece-the-antetokounmpos-slap-to-larentzakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/greece-the-antetokounmpos-slap-to-larentzakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece, the Antetokounmpo&#8217;s slap to Larentzakis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"185\">In the past few hours, a video has gone viral showing Giannis Antetokounmpo slapping his national teammate Giannoulis Larentzakis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"471\">Giannis hit his teammate at the end of the friendly against Montenegro, while the team was huddled together in a circle. The exact reason for the slap isn\u2019t clear, but the Olympiacos player and the Bucks star have been friends for a long time and even attended the same high school.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"691\">Evan Fournier, Larentzakis\u2019 teammate at Olympiacos, joked about it on X, commenting on the slap video: <em data-start=\"576\" data-end=\"667\">\u201cIf you dont listen to everything I say next season this is whats gonna happen&#8221;<\/em>, tagging Larentzakis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why did Giannis Antetokounmpo slap Larentzakis like that \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 giannispan_\/TikTok <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kuwtbvEMvd\">pic.twitter.com\/kuwtbvEMvd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasketNews_com\/status\/1956816767403413578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 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>In the past few hours, a video has gone viral showing Giannis Antetokounmpo slapping his national teammate Giannoulis Larentzakis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":374277,"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":[54,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-455524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grecia","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-lillard.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455524","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455524"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=455524"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=455524"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=455524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}