{"id":470289,"date":"2025-11-18T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=470289"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:20:01","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-exits-bucks-loss-with-groin-strain-mri-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/giannis-antetokounmpo-exits-bucks-loss-with-groin-strain-mri-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo exits Bucks\u2019 loss with groin strain, MRI scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1634\"><strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1387\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> forward <strong data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1421\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> left Monday\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1436\" data-end=\"1479\">118-106 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> with a <strong data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1508\">left groin strain<\/strong> and will undergo an <strong data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1547\">MRI on Tuesday<\/strong>, coach <strong data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1569\">Doc Rivers<\/strong> told reporters. \u201cDidn\u2019t look great,\u201d Rivers admitted postgame.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FULL MOMENT: Giannis Antetokounmpo goes straight to locker room after groin injury <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKXS6kKdBv\">pic.twitter.com\/AKXS6kKdBv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBAbzy (@nbabzyy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbabzyy\/status\/1990599311487639588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1825\">Antetokounmpo appeared to favor his groin throughout the first quarter before hobbling off late in the second. He finished with <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1803\">14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists<\/strong> in just 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"2077\">The two-time MVP has been on an MVP-caliber pace this season, averaging <strong data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1930\">32.6 points on 63% shooting<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1937\" data-end=\"1970\">11.3 rebounds and 7.1 assists<\/strong> through 12 games. The Bucks, now <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2011\">8-7<\/strong>, have dropped consecutive games for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2079\" data-end=\"2195\">Antetokounmpo reportedly left the arena without assistance, but his status remains uncertain pending test results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo left Monday\u2019s 118-106 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers with a left groin strain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":470288,"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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-470289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/G6AAbjeXAAAzsxd.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470289","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=470289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470289"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=470289"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=470289"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=470289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}