The Milwaukee Bucks are the NBA champions for the first time in 50 years after beating the Phoenix Suns
The Milwaukee Bucks were on the clock with the 15th pick in the 2013 NBA draft when they took a risk on a skinny teenager from the second division of Greek basketball with a name that most Americans didn’t know how to pronounce: Giannis Antetokounmpo.Antetokounmpo turned into the best player on the Bucks. Then he blossomed into the league’s Most Valuable Player two years in a row. Now he’s an NBA champion.
The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night, 105-98, to win their first title since they had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a half-century ago and complete Giannis Antetokounmpo’s extraordinary ascent from selling trinkets on the streets of Athens to the summit of basketball.
His first trip to the Finals was majestic, including two all-time great plays that very few people on the planet could have replicated—
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