{"id":513010,"date":"2026-09-01T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=513010"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:31:59","slug":"thanasis-antetokounmpo-joins-aris-on-a-21-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thanasis-antetokounmpo-joins-aris-on-a-21-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanasis Antetokounmpo joins Aris on a 2+1 deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aris BC has officially announced the signing of Thanasis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> on a 2+1-year deal<\/strong>. The 2.01-meter forward, born in 1992, returns to Greece after spending several seasons playing in both the NBA and Europe.<\/p>\n

From the G League to the NBA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Antetokounmpo began his professional career with Filathlitikos in 2011 before moving to the United States to join the Delaware 87ers, the Philadelphia 76ers\u2019 affiliate in the NBA Development League.<\/p>\n

In 2014, the New York Knicks selected him with the 51st overall pick in the NBA Draft<\/strong>. He spent most of the following two seasons with the Westchester Knicks, while also making two NBA appearances for New York during the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n

Back to Europe with Panathinaikos<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2016, Antetokounmpo returned to Europe and joined Andorra. One year later, he moved back to Greece to sign with Panathinaikos AKTOR.<\/p>\n

He won back-to-back Greek championships<\/strong> with the Athens club in 2018 and 2019 and was also named MVP of the 2018 Greek All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

NBA champion with the Bucks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2019, Antetokounmpo returned to the NBA by signing with the Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong>, where he reunited with his brother Giannis.<\/p>\n

He became an NBA champion in 2021<\/strong>, remaining with Milwaukee until this summer and making 255 appearances<\/strong> for the franchise. He missed the 2024-25 season due to injury.<\/p>\n

Representing Greece at the 2027 World Cup Qualifiers<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Antetokounmpo has been a member of the Greek national team since 2016<\/strong> and is currently representing Greece in its campaign to qualify for the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greek forward returns to his home country on a two-year contract with an option for a third season. The 2021 NBA champion with the Milwaukee Bucks is currently representing Greece in the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":513009,"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":[197,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-513010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-greece","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/THANASIS-POST-B.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513010","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513010"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=513010"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=513010"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=513010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}