NBA In Greece against Nikkos Pappas, former Real Madrid B and Bilbao Basket
Giannis Antetokounmpo It is today an unstoppable beast on a basketball court. One of the best players in the world who accumulates recognition and awards (double NBA MVP, Best Defender, four times all star …) in an unstoppable race that only has the stain of the ring left.
However the Greek forward for the Milwaukee Bucks He was not always an unstoppable player on the court. And so Antetokounmpo himself remembered it in an interview in which he looked back to reveal the day he ended up crying on a basketball court.
“I remember one day I had a bad experience on a basketball court. There was this boy, Nikos Pappas (former Real Madrid B and Bilbao Basket player and five-time champion in Greece with the PAO), who was really good. years and I was 15. I was in front of my friends, on my court, and I was challenged “We can play one-on-one and I bet you can’t score.” he told me. I told him that was not going to happen. And I won 33-0 “, remembered the double MVP of the NBA.
Antetokounmpo himself recalled that I left the court crying and that that day he promised himself that he would never lose again.
“He really challenged at the beginning was his little brother Kostas,” says Pappas, who today plays for Hapoel Jerusalem. “No one could imagine then how great Giannis would become, but I was the king of that little court those days. ”
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