{"id":489826,"date":"2026-03-26T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489826"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:12:09","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-doc-rivers-updates-giannis-antetokounmpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/milwaukee-bucks-doc-rivers-updates-giannis-antetokounmpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks&#8217; Doc Rivers updates Giannis Antetokounmpo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1633\" data-end=\"1902\"><strong data-start=\"1633\" data-end=\"1658\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> remains sidelined and the <strong data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1704\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> are still waiting for his return.<br data-start=\"1738\" data-end=\"1741\" \/>Before the game against Portland, coach <strong data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"1795\">Doc Rivers<\/strong> said the Greek star is \u201c<strong data-start=\"1820\" data-end=\"1862\">progressing, but he\u2019s just not healthy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"2207\">Antetokounmpo is out with a <strong data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1945\">left knee<\/strong> issue involving a hyperextension and bone bruise, and he has now missed five games.<br data-start=\"2029\" data-end=\"2032\" \/>His absence is also weighing heavily on Milwaukee\u2019s standings position, with the Bucks slipping further away from the final play-in spot.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2440\">Rivers\u2019 comments therefore suggest there is still no immediate return on the horizon.<br data-start=\"2294\" data-end=\"2297\" \/>For the Bucks, getting Giannis back remains the key issue in an increasingly difficult end to the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee\u2019s coach made it clear that Antetokounmpo is still not ready to return as the Bucks keep losing ground in the standings<\/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-489826","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","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489826","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=489826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489826\/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=489826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489826"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489826"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489826"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}