Fans Are Taking Antetokounmpo For Granted: “I’m Ok With It”
The superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo believes that the fans are taking for granted the greatness of his game, and he’s OK with it. The 2 times MVP Antetokounmpo share his feeling about taking granted by the fans.
He said “yes” after winning against Brooklyn Nets with 118-104, after that he said “Yes. And it’s OK. I don’t think I’m the first, I don’t think I’m the last. I feel like people take for granted Kevin Durant, people take for granted LeBron James, people take for granted Stephen Curry. You see all this greatness every day and they take it for granted until they’re not there no more.”
He added, “And you’re like, ‘Oh, man. I miss those guys. I miss the show that they put on.’ It’s OK.”
“As I said, I’m not the first,” he said. “I’m not going to be the last. I just got to keep on going out there, enjoying the game of basketball. Because when I stop enjoying the game of basketball, the game is done. I got to keep on enjoying, keep on building, And keep on trying to win games. I can’t control what other people think. If they take it for granted, I can’t control that, I don’t take it for granted.”
“When I go out there I try to give everything that I have — four minutes, five minutes that I played against Chicago, that’s all I had. In the All-Star Game when I played 10 seconds, that’s all I had. Against Miami at home, I don’t know how much I played, that’s all I had. Today, I played for 30 minutes, that’s all I had. If I keep on giving everything I have, and I know I don’t take it for granted, I’m OK with that. If other people take it for granted, it’s their opinion, their mindset, it’s OK.”
In the initial conversation, he is just talking about the injuries by which he was dealing with by which he can’t finish the games. He was upset on his own and closed once because they tell him that he was Up from the pain and play like ruthlessly.
“That’s the bad thing,” Antetokounmpo said. “When I went back home and I told my significant other ‘I’m hurting,’ she’s like, ‘Ahh, you’ll be all right because you never get hurt.’ I feel like when I’m hurting, people don’t take me seriously. But as I’ve said, we had a good conversation before this, for me to leave a game which I usually never do, I’m in pain. But at the end of the day, whatever I have to give, I try to give. That’s all I can do.”
He said that he take a break when he was so pressurized and needed a break. He just wanna be just understood players feeling also.
“Right now, I know I have to put myself in a position to be healthy,” he said. “Because I’m a religious guy, I really believe that — when I hit knees with [Mike] Muscala, that was my first warning, then the Chicago game, I maybe [was] not supposed to play, but my stubborn said, ‘No, I want to compete.’ And I hit my hand, that’s the second warning from God. And then the third warning he said maybe you stay [off] a few games and you should not be playing this game. I’m like, ‘Nope. I want to play this game because I love it, I’m obsessed with the game of basketball.’ And I hurt my knee again. That’s the third warning, now I have to listen.”
“Being able to be a team that wins 15 in a row, it’s a great feeling,” Antetokounmpo said. “But it doesn’t matter if we lost five in a row. I’ve said this before, as long as we keep improving, keep building chemistry, keep playing together, keep competing, keep building championship-level mentality and mindset, no matter what we face, no matter what adversity we face, we’re just going to keep on going … that’s all I care about.”
Read more: Top 5 True NBA Title Contenders After The All-Star Break
