The destination on where Thanasis Antetokounmpo will be taking his basketball talents to next season is unknown, but the former Milwaukee Bucks forward took to social media Wednesday, July 15 to pay tribute to his previous home.
Now an unrestricted free agent after spending six of his seven seasons in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks, Thanasis released a video July 15 teasing his next “Thanalysis” podcast highlighting a classy farewell to Milwaukee Bucks’ fans and players.
Antetokounmpo’s younger brother Giannis, the former face of the Milwaukee franchise who spent 12 seasons with the Bucks, was officially traded to the Miami Heat earlier this month.
Thanasis thanked both the city of Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin in the video:
“I am grateful for everything from the bottom of my heart,” he said. “Everything you’ve given to my family, for the good, bad, everything, and I only keep the good ones. You know, let everybody else talk about any other narrative and anything you want to say. You had a family, you had some kids, you watched them grow up, you watched them become men, you watched them have kids, you watched them have a family, you watched them win a championship with you, you watched them struggle, you watched them win with you.”
Thanasis Antetokounmpo averaged only 2.3 points and 1.5 rebounds a game, but spent six years on the Bucks’ roster and appeared to become attached to the organization. He was part of the Bucks’ 2021 NBA championship roster.
“I’m not talking about just me and Giannis. I want to talk about Jrue Holiday, I want to talk about Khris Middleton. I want to talk about Pat Connaughton. I want to talk about Brooke Lopez. This kid, this everybody, Bobby Portis,” Thanasis said. “All these people, half a decade. Do you know what half a decade means?”
Thanasis Antetokounmpo averaged just 1.9 points and 0.9 rebounds in about four minutes a game last season. He ripped national NBA reporters in February after the trade deadline when despite much trade speculation from media. He appeared to take a shot at ESPN’s Shams Charania who said that “Giannis was ready to find a new team.”
“What happened to integrity? What happened to you know like, ‘Let me ask Giannis,'” Thanasis said. “If I hear one more time ‘his camp said.’ We are his camp; we don’t talk to no one. I don’t understand this notion ‘his camp said.'”
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Thanasis Antetokounmpo bids a classy farewell to Bucks and Milwaukee
Reporting by Emmett Prosser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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