Giannis in Athens: Harden & Durant can be face of the NBA, I want to be a family man

[Don Homer]

Fukk it, if I just one the title and finals MVP while knocking his team out of the playoffs, I woulda just said it exactly like that

no way

 

[No1]

The thing about Giannis that different from kd or Lebron is he don’t give a fukk about his perception or others opinion of him. I respect that about him. He says what he says and does him. If the media turns on Giannis, he won’t give two ducks or try to fight them back. He’s just going go out to the court and take it out on the court with some bully ball.


Dude don’t care are about that shyt. Look how he lets Jrue and Middleton cool in the fourth and you can tell he has no ill will or jealousy. Slowly becoming one of my favorite players.


I fukks with with Giannis. Wouldn’t be mad if he wins a couple more championships in milwaukee

Giannis also isn’t American and isn’t really beholden to the American media. You guys do a hell of a lot of projecting on to people based on limited sample sizes. You have no idea how he will react to everyone hating him because he’s never been in that position and a non-American player never has been. Giannis just won the NBA title and the entire NBA media said all the pressure and scrutiny is on the Lakers and Nets. How LeBron has handled himself given the position he has been in since 16 is much more impressive than how Giannis has handled himself since getting in the NBA. You don’t have to speak down on them to prop up Giannis. It’s 2021 and so many brothers still don’t seem to comprehend that. You could’ve said all of that and not mentioned either one of them. And he wasn’t even taking shots, he named obviously great players and said it wasn’t a goal of is, you guys be morphing players words to fit whatever agenda you’re pushing.

All those guys are great and what someone chooses to do with the spotlight doesn’t make them better or worse.

 

[No1]

He's acting like Steph Curry and Bron don't exist.

They were the faces of the league and everybody knows their kids and wives names

He was just talking, you guys be reading too much into as if he thought about that answer and had a prepared statement.

 

[eXodus]

no way

Won breh lol, I be multitasking posting from my phone n barely proof read most shyt I post.

I saw it when I reread after a breh dapped but was too lazy to edit

 

[Man On Fire]

People who hate on Giannis are losers

 

[Don Homer]

Won breh lol, I be multitasking posting from my phone n barely proof read most shyt I post.

I saw it when I reread after a breh dapped but was too lazy to edit

fair enough breh

 

[TallMan_J]

I feel like he’s saying he doesnt want all the glitz, glamour, hype, red carpets, clout demons, strip clubs, tmz, etc. He just wants to work hard, win chips, take care of his kids and blow his wife’s back out without the extra added pressures of being “the face of the league”

That's all us married brehs want to do is be able to beat our wive's cheeks in peace and provide for our families.


Besides being worth hundreds of millions, Giannis is just like the rest of us brehs out here. Same with Lebron and the others. They're relatable. Notice how KD, Harden and the other unmarried brehs are often mad, dysfunctional, and/or angry. Team GMB takes another L.

 

[TallMan_J]

honestly, as long as Bucks fans don't turn on him (which they won't), I don't think he cares.

Giannis could probably murder a baby anywhere in the state of Wisconsin and get away with it. That just comes with being a Superstar. Miguel Cabrera (Detroit Tigers) used to put hands on his wife, drive drunk, show up to games fukked up and all of that. No one bothered him because of who he is and what he provided to The City. This is normal.

 

[Bossino]

Some of my Nigerian friends don't like how he is so attache to greece. Though he was born there they did not treat him well until he became legit. and thats racist as fk.

As a first gen child of Nigerian immigrant he's Anthony Joshua status unfortunately black people across the diaspora have some within their ranks who are comfortable with cacs/around cacs, or flat out prefer cacs. I just don't dap em and keep it cordial/formal.

 

[Bossino]

Why is he insinuating u cannot be a family man and be the face of the league? Has very strange undertones, it’s almost as if he’s sayin to be a face of the league U need to be involved wit sum form of debauchery

I meeeeeeeeeeaaaaaan excluding Bron, its safe to say MJ and Kobe had fukkery and they are the only other consensus faces of the league in the last 3 decades. No disrespect to either (RIP MAMBA & GIGI), but being in the mix lead to the issues MJ and Jobe had in a non basketball related sense.

Giannis is just shading Harden (which Harden deserves for talking greasy on Giannis), while setting the personal boundary that he's not interested in doing extra shyt associated with being a face/the face of the league. It seems in his thought process the extra endeavors are simply distractions from work (basketball) and family. I understand and respect it

 

[Bossino]

Funny thing is KD and Harden really don't care about that shyt either tho, they just love hooping

Love hooping enough to piss away a chance at a chip partying in Miami?

A lot of fans conflate a players talent/skill to their work ethic.

 

[mbewane]

Some of my Nigerian friends don't like how he is so attache to greece. Though he was born there they did not treat him well until he became legit. and thats racist as fk.

Why would he not be attached to the country in which he grew up

Also this article (https://theundefeated.com/features/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-greek-freak-wants-to-go-back-to-his-nigerian-roots/) states that he understands and speaks some Igbo, that he reached out to obtain a Nigerian passport in 2015 and he basically defines his upbringing at home as "Nigerian".

Also, anyone with migrant background knows this :

“It doesn’t matter what people may believe because of my nickname. There were a lot of times when I was in Greece where people said, ‘You’re not Greek. You’re Nigerian because you’re black.’ But then there have been a lot of times where it’s been the opposite, where people say, ‘You’re not African. You’re Greek. You’re ‘The Greek Freak.’ ’

Either way, people will find a reason to hate.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Absolutely nothing, people just wanna find some reason to be mad
He's not tryna spend his offseason doing promo trips in China, going to movie premiers, all of that. Nothing wrong if you want that, but nothing wrong with him saying he's not interested in that

Especially when he’s in Greece with his family. It’s not like he lives in the US where Hollywood and the NBA is at. I thought that was the main point of the answer. Like why are you here instead of Milwaukee… well because………

 

[Bankroll.org]

100% sure KD doesnt gaf about being the face either

 

[who_better_than_me]

Giannis also isn’t American and isn’t really beholden to the American media. You guys do a hell of a lot of projecting on to people based on limited sample sizes. You have no idea how he will react to everyone hating him because he’s never been in that position and a non-American player never has been. Giannis just won the NBA title and the entire NBA media said all the pressure and scrutiny is on the Lakers and Nets. How LeBron has handled himself given the position he has been in since 16 is much more impressive than how Giannis has handled himself since getting in the NBA. You don’t have to speak down on them to prop up Giannis. It’s 2021 and so many brothers still don’t seem to comprehend that. You could’ve said all of that and not mentioned either one of them. And he wasn’t even taking shots, he named obviously great players and said it wasn’t a goal of is, you guys be morphing players words to fit whatever agenda you’re pushing.

All those guys are great and what someone chooses to do with the spotlight doesn’t make them better or worse.

I didn’t take shots at anybody. Kd does care about what people say or think about him as evident of the burner account and petty debates he has with ppl who don’t matter and Lebron does to based on his clapbacks; you remember what he did to Charles Barkey for a comment that really wasn’t bad about him needing help. It doesn’t make them bad or weak ppl. It doesn’t make them wrong: It’s just the opposite of how Giannis has reacts to the negative media.