I am willing to accept the obvious reality that I know infinitely less about football than professional coaches. However, there are certain instances and players that test me in that regard. One of them is Noni Madueke. Every elite coach in the world could select him and it would still not be enough for me to deny the evidence of my eyes.
After 13 seasons, the Giannis Antetokounmpo era is over in Milwaukee:
๐ฆ 2021 NBA Champion and Finals MVP
๐ฆ 2024 NBA Cup Champion and MVP
๐ฆ Back-to-back MVP in 2019 and 2020
๐ฆ 2020 NBA Defensive Player of the Year
๐ฆ 10-time NBA All-Star
๐ฆ 9-time All-NBA honors
๐ฆ 5-time All-Defense
๐ฆ NBA 75th Anniversary Team
๐ฆ All-time franchise leader in points, assists, rebounds, blocks
WHAT A RUN FOR FOR GIANNIS ๐
The Bucks are dead. Long live the Bucks.
Players come and go. The team is the thing that lasts. It's the deal every one of us signs up for, whether we know it or not. You get your window to be the man and you try to give the city everything you've got while you're there. Eventually though, somebody else comes along to take your place.
I came up in the league what guys like Glenn Robinson and Ray Allen meant to Milwaukee. Later on I got a little run of my own there, and down the road I watched younger guys like Brandon Jennings get their shot too. Now, I don't belong in the same breath as a lot of these names, especially not the one we're talking about today, but for the sake of making my point I'll include myself.
Every one of us mattered to Milwaukee for a stretch. And every one of us got moved, got old, or got left behind when the team decided it was time. No shame in it. The name on the front of the jersey will always outlive the name on the back.
What Giannis did in Milwaukee speaks for itself. He brought a title to a city that waited 50 years for one. Two MVPs. Defensive Player of the Year. He stuck around when plenty of guys his size would've pushed their way out a lot sooner, and he gave that place everything he had for more than ten years. One of the greatest to ever wear that incredible Bucks jersey.
But the page always turns. It turned on Kareem all those years ago, it turned on me and the fellas I played alongside, and now here it is turning on Giannis too.
It's just time, for both sides, to get the next chapter started.
Thank you, Giannis. For the championship, for the memories, and for repping Milwaukee the right way.
The Bucks are dead. Long live the Bucks.
Despite Spain having 74% possession, Cape Verde committed just ONE foul the entire match.
This is the least amount of fouls committed by a team on record in a World Cup match ๐คฏ
A HISTORIC DOUBLE ๐๐
The Knicks become the first team in NBA history to win both the Emirates NBA Cup and the Larry OโBrien Trophy in the same season!