Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo joining team after Covid-19 quarantine

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After missing the start of Milwaukee’s training campy owed to testing affirmative for Covid-19, Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is acceptable to articulation the team successful Miami this weekend.

Bucks manager Doc Rivers told reporters Friday that Antetokounmpo was acceptable to alert successful from Greece Friday nighttime and would beryllium reporting to training campy Saturday up of the Bucks’ preseason opener Monday against the Heat.

A two-time MVP and nine-time All-Star, Antetokounmpo, 30, is coming disconnected his third straight play successful which helium averaged implicit 30 points per crippled on with 11.9 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 1.2 blocks. Over 859 vocation games (794 starts), he’s averaged 23.9 points, 9.9 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game.

Milwaukee enters the 2025-26 play with a slightly reshaped roster, waiving constituent defender Damian Lillard aft helium tore his Achilles successful past year’s playoffs. The Bucks signed halfway Myles Turner (15.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.0 blocks per crippled past season) to springiness Giannis different established large to play alongside. [Reuters]