{"id":465824,"date":"2025-10-23T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465824"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:57:38","slug":"khris-middleton-grateful-for-warm-reception-in-milwaukee-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/khris-middleton-grateful-for-warm-reception-in-milwaukee-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Khris Middleton Grateful for Warm Reception in Milwaukee Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"924\" data-end=\"1169\">After <strong data-start=\"930\" data-end=\"965\">12 seasons and a 2021 NBA title<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"975\" data-end=\"994\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1015\">Khris Middleton<\/strong> made an emotional return as a member of the <strong data-start=\"1060\" data-end=\"1082\">Washington Wizards<\/strong>, receiving multiple <strong data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1144\">standing ovations and a tribute video<\/strong> during a 133-120 loss.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1388\">\u201cTo get that kind of appreciation means the world to me,\u201d said Middleton, who scored a team-high 23 points. The sold-out <strong data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1308\">Fiserv Forum<\/strong> crowd saluted him throughout the night, and he made sure to acknowledge them.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1598\">Former teammate <strong data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1431\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> called it \u201cweird but special,\u201d adding: \u201cHe can still hoop. He always plays the right way.\u201d The two embraced after facing each other for the first time in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Khris Middleton tribute video!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bucks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FearTheDeer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FearTheDeer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iwvgJSvWme\">pic.twitter.com\/iwvgJSvWme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Starck (@starckie24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/starckie24\/status\/1981154113221177452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 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>Khris Middleton made an emotional return as a member of the Washington Wizards<\/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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/465824","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=465824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465824\/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=465824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465824"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465824"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465824"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}