Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 points on Tuesday night to lead the Milwaukee Bucks their first NBA Championship in 50 years. Only six other players have scored 50 points or more in the NBA Finals.…
The fans’ show of loyalty was commensurate to the Bucks’ efforts. In Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals this year, Antetokounmpo left the game after twisting his left knee during an awkward landing. In a 2020-2021 campaign that followed a shortened offseason, NBA fans have seen superstar after superstar plagued by similar season-ending injuries. But Antetokounmpo came back for the next game looking like he’d never been injured.
Then, after falling down 2-0 to Phoenix in the series, the Bucks gathered themselves and won 4 straight to take home the trophy. The Bucks’ last — and only other championship — came in 1971, when they were led by another all-time great big man named Lou Alcindor, who later became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. After three more seasons Abdul-Jabbar went to the Lakers.
Antetokounmpo could have done the same thing once he was with the Bucks for three years. He could have left small market Milwaukee for the lights of L.A. or New York, but he stayed a Buck and signed a new contract in 2016. In 2020, he redoubled his commitment and signed a $228 million contract, declaring in a Twitter post, “This is my home, this is my city.”
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