{"id":489666,"date":"2026-03-25T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489666"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:44:58","slug":"nbpa-rebukes-bucks-over-giannis-antetokounmpo-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nbpa-rebukes-bucks-over-giannis-antetokounmpo-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"NBPA rebukes Bucks over Giannis Antetokounmpo dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"3539\" data-end=\"3778\">The <strong data-start=\"3543\" data-end=\"3551\">NBPA<\/strong> publicly criticized the <strong data-start=\"3576\" data-end=\"3595\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> over the situation involving <strong data-start=\"3625\" data-end=\"3650\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"3651\" data-end=\"3654\" \/>The union suggested the franchise is damaging the league\u2019s integrity by wanting to shut him down for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3780\" data-end=\"4032\">According to ESPN, Antetokounmpo refused the team\u2019s request to remain out for the remainder of the year.<br data-start=\"3884\" data-end=\"3887\" \/>In its statement, the NBPA also pointed to the Player Participation Policy, arguing that a healthy and available All-Star should be on the court.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4034\" data-end=\"4213\">Milwaukee announced last week that Giannis was sidelined by a left knee injury.<br data-start=\"4113\" data-end=\"4116\" \/>The Bucks are currently 11th in the Eastern Conference at 29-42, with their play-in hopes fading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The players\u2019 union criticized Milwaukee over its handling of Giannis, suggesting the team is hurting the NBA\u2019s integrity<\/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":[165],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/489666","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=489666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489666\/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=489666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489666"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489666"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489666"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}