{"id":475601,"date":"2025-12-27T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475601\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:04:10","slug":"bucks-list-antetokounmpo-as-questionable-for-saturdays-game-as-he-nears-return-from-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475601\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks list Antetokounmpo as questionable for Saturday’s game as he nears return from calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO — Giannis Antetokounmpo may be on the verge of returning from the right calf strain<\/a> that has kept the two-time MVP from playing in the Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 last eight games.<\/p>\n

The Bucks issued an injury report that listed Antetokounmpo as questionable for Saturday’s game at Chicago rather than ruling him out entirely.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo hasn\u2019t played since injuring his calf<\/a> less than three minutes into the Bucks\u2019 113-109 victory<\/a> over the Detroit Pistons on Dec. 3. The injury came on Antetokounmpo\u2019s fourth game back after a left adductor strain caused him to miss four games.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it was a mistake of me coming back a little bit earlier, because once I come back, now you\u2019re overcompensating,\u201d Antetokounmpo said<\/a> on Dec. 18. \u201cThe only way you can pop your soleus is by overcompensating and then having an extreme amount of load or play a lot of games in a short period of time. Again, I think all of the things that I was thinking and trying to come back led to the incident that I had with my soleus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bucks have gone 2-6 in the eight games Antetokounmpo has missed because of the calf issue. So far this season, the Bucks are 9-8 with Antetokounmpo and 3-11 without him.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo, who turned 31 on Dec. 6, has averaged 28.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 6.1 assists this season.<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO — Giannis Antetokounmpo may be on the verge of returning from the right calf strain that has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[215556,347,2733,1260,6326,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-475601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-215556","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-basketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115793327772447257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}