{"id":488322,"date":"2026-03-16T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488322"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:46:51","slug":"bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-exits-win-after-awkward-landing-vs-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-exits-win-after-awkward-landing-vs-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks\u2019 Giannis Antetokounmpo exits win after awkward landing vs Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1900\"><strong data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1584\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> exited the <strong data-start=\"1596\" data-end=\"1615\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong>\u2019 134-123 win over <strong data-start=\"1634\" data-end=\"1656\">the Indiana Pacers<\/strong> on Sunday after an awkward landing while finishing a dunk late in the third quarter. The two-time MVP stayed in briefly, dunked again on the next possession, then attempted two free throws before heading to the locker room and not returning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1902\" data-end=\"2087\">Antetokounmpo finished with <strong data-start=\"1930\" data-end=\"1974\">31 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"1992\">30 minutes<\/strong>. Bucks coach <strong data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2020\">Doc Rivers<\/strong> said: \u201cMy guess is he hyperextended his knee, but I\u2019m guessing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2089\" data-end=\"2518\">Giannis said he wasn\u2019t planning on getting imaging right away and would reassess on Monday: \u201cI\u2019m just going to go back home, sleep, see how I feel tomorrow\u2026 if I have a little bit of discomfort, then I\u2019ll go from there. As of now, I\u2019m not really bothered.\u201d He has missed a <strong data-start=\"2362\" data-end=\"2386\">career-high 31 games<\/strong> this season, including two extended absences with right calf strains and Saturday\u2019s game in Atlanta due to a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis leaves late in the third quarter: 31 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists; Doc Rivers guesses a knee hyperextension<\/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":[179,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury","typology-video"],"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\/488322","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=488322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488322\/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=488322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488322"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488322"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488322"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}