Giannis’s emerging greatness gives us something to root for
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It’s not like everybody and the guy sitting next to them at the bar couldn’t have predicted it—the guy at the bar actually did; he got hired by The Athletic—but Giannis Antetokounmpo took a huge, gangly-limbed step forward last season. He averaged neaGiannis’s emerging greatness gives us something to root for
It’s not like everybody and the guy sitting next to them at the bar couldn’t have predicted it—the guy at the bar actually did; he got hired by The Athletic—but Giannis Antetokounmpo took a huge, gangly-limbed step forward last season. He averaged nearly 27 points per game, grabbed 10 rebounds a night, and managed to transcend some antediluvian coaching in order to position himself as a bona fide MVP candidate this year. The Bucks—here we take a moment to single out Eric Bledsoe—inevitably let him down in the playoffs, but it was the sort of failure a 23-year-old can easily absorb. At this still-early point in Giannis’s career, it’s all about hitting benchmarks, accumulating experience. He ate his first corndog over the offseason. He’s on the right track. In the 2017 edition of Thirty Futures, I wrote about how we were getting ahead of ourselves with him, projecting what we should be appreciating in real time. That’s still happening this year because hype never sleeps, but the most swirly-eyed element of it Read more