{"id":480924,"date":"2026-01-26T20:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480924"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:39:45","slug":"bucks-doc-rivers-no-consideration-of-shutting-down-giannis-for-the-season-amid-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bucks-doc-rivers-no-consideration-of-shutting-down-giannis-for-the-season-amid-calf-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks\u2019 Doc Rivers: no consideration of shutting down Giannis for the season amid calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1749\">The <strong data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1555\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> confirmed <strong data-start=\"1566\" data-end=\"1591\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> is out indefinitely due to a calf strain. Antetokounmpo said he believes he\u2019ll miss <strong data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1697\">four to six weeks<\/strong>, similar to a previous stretch with the same issue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1985\"><strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1760\">Coach<\/strong> Doc Rivers stressed the team hasn\u2019t discussed ending Giannis\u2019 season despite the calf history: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1857\" data-end=\"1887\">There\u2019s no thought to that<\/strong>.\u201d At the same time, Rivers emphasized caution on the timeline: \u201c<strong data-start=\"1952\" data-end=\"1983\">There\u2019s really no timetable<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1987\" data-end=\"2240\">Milwaukee sits at <strong data-start=\"2005\" data-end=\"2014\">18-26<\/strong> and is <strong data-start=\"2022\" data-end=\"2030\">3-11<\/strong> without Antetokounmpo. The Bucks will receive the lesser first-round pick between their own and the <strong data-start=\"2131\" data-end=\"2156\">New Orleans Pelicans\u2019<\/strong>, with wider trade-deadline chatter also lingering around Giannis\u2019 long-term future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antetokounmpo is out indefinitely with a calf strain, while he expects a 4-to-6-week window<\/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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480924","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\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480924","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=480924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480924\/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=480924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480924"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480924"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480924"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}