
Giannis Antetokounmpo isn’t the type of star you can root against
NY Post
Surely, someone will disagree. No athlete has 100 percent job approval, not even the great ones, not even the ones with big, winning personalities. So maybe this statement will be proven wrong a hundred times over by a cornerstone of contrarians and iconoclasts and Phoenix Suns fans. Here goes anyway:
Nobody roots against Giannis Antetokounmpo. Now, that isn’t to say the world (outside Arizona) has been transformed to a cult of Milwaukee Bucks fans, hopeful to see a coronation Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. It certainly isn’t to say that Antetokounmpo is perfect; part of his raw appeal, in fact, is that he is most assuredly imperfect, especially at that skill all of us try to hone from age 4 to age 94: free-throw shooting.More Related News

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