LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo can compete in rival conferences, but share the same sentiments with respect to the plans of the League to celebrate a Star Game in March in Atlanta.
Received a record of 33 points and 12 rebounds in the Milwaukee Bucks victory over 123-105 in Cleveland at night, Antetokounmpo responded to James’ position in the game that was caught in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Creo que todos los jugadores jperadans con ansias esos cinco días, siete días, sean los que sean. Tenemos que seguir al Big Dog”, dijo Antetokounmpo, refiriéndose a James. “The Big Dog says that he has no emotion or energy for the Star Game and is thinking of the same way. At the moment, I really do not import the Star Game. We can see our families”.
“I can not preoccupy myself with the Juego de Estrellas. I want to see my family. I want to see my little brother in Spain, I want my husband to get revenge”, he said. “Enthusiasm, thought of the same way. No energy, no emotion. At the end of the day, if we say we will present, then we will do our work. You will always do my work, always be apparent, give the correct example. But at the end of the day, in the background, in the background, I do not want to do it. I want to take a break “.
Antetokounmpo was second only to Kevin Durant of Brooklyn in the Delante cancha of the Conference Este in the first votes of the fanatics.
The current Most Valuable and Defensive Player of the Year has been played in the last quarter of Star Wars, citing his Chicago experience in 2020 as “very entertaining for the fanatics”.
“At the end of the day, if we take the Star Game, we hope that the fanatics can be allied and we can retire,” said Antetokounmpo. “In the final of the day, if we play the Game of the Stars only to play the Game of the Stars and we do not have fanatical games, there is no sense in playing”.
Before the start of the Bucks-Cavaliers, Milwaukee also went to Cleveland on the day of the game to solve mechanical problems with the team of the players at night. Aterrizaron in Cleveland el viernes por la mañana.
Players have learned to adapt to this type of situation while playing during the pandemic and in arenas during their majority vacations.
Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer escaped with a suspenseful expression of his opinion on the Star Game, saying: “I fully understand that there are many preoccupations and compartments”.
Antetokounmpo, like James, said he was under the impression that the league was not celebrating the annual escape until he began to provide information about his opponent. Dijo prefers to pass the time to relax the balance that competes this night.
“I thought, obviously, to enter in time, but even if we do not have a Star Game, there will be a moment to spend time with our family”, said Antetokounmpo. “Obviously, when you change the protocol it is a bit difficult because on the truck, your family can not come to the truck. In the house you can go to the house, only you can have the practical installations at the stadium and you have no time to leave his family has a good price or for his family to turn around or simply to escape the game “.