{"id":474941,"date":"2025-12-19T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=474941"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:11:06","slug":"giannis-on-future-talk-locked-in-on-getting-healthy-says-agent-conversations-arent-up-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/giannis-on-future-talk-locked-in-on-getting-healthy-says-agent-conversations-arent-up-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis on future talk: \u201cLocked in\u201d on getting healthy, says agent conversations aren\u2019t up to him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1992\" data-end=\"2357\"><strong data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2031\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> said he\u2019s \u201clocked in\u201d on getting healthy and can\u2019t control reports about his future with the <strong data-start=\"2125\" data-end=\"2144\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong>. Before Thursday\u2019s game vs the <strong data-start=\"2176\" data-end=\"2195\">Toronto Raptors<\/strong>, he stated that if his agent is speaking with the organization, that\u2019s the agent\u2019s decision \u2014 and that he personally hasn\u2019t had that conversation with the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2359\" data-end=\"2659\">Giannis largely sidestepped deeper future questions, stressing the reports don\u2019t change his work or his relationships with teammates, coach, or the front office. He emphasized urgency with Milwaukee sitting at <strong data-start=\"2569\" data-end=\"2578\">11-16<\/strong> and said the team can\u2019t be consumed by headlines when \u201cwe\u2019ve got to win a game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2661\" data-end=\"3060\">Sidelined since <strong data-start=\"2677\" data-end=\"2687\">Dec. 3<\/strong> with a <strong data-start=\"2695\" data-end=\"2716\">right calf strain<\/strong>, Antetokounmpo said he\u2019s spoken with the coach and with individual teammates who asked about the reports because it could impact their own lives and careers. He also acknowledged that rushing back from a prior issue likely contributed to the current setback, describing the pressure he feels as a leader to return too quickly to help the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antetokounmpo addresses ESPN report for the first time, saying he hasn\u2019t had those talks with the Bucks and is focused on recovery and teammates<\/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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-474941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"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\/474941","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=474941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474941\/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=474941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474941"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=474941"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=474941"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=474941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}