Giannis Antetokounmpo is so shut together with his brother Thanasis that he seems to be reliant on him, based on former Milwaukee Bucks guard Jeff Teague.
Teague, who was on the Bucks’ 2021 championship-winning workforce, made the feedback on The Draymond Inexperienced Present.
“Giannis ‘ brother, once we went down 0-2, he had Covid. So he couldn’t come to the aircraft. That’s why we have been down 0-2. Giannis was tousled… They received some completely different sort of connection. He can’t operate or play if he don’t see his brother.
“I’m being for actual. It’s completely different, bro. He was like, ‘The place’s TA (Thanasis Antetokounmpo)? The place’s TA?’ We in the midst of a recreation, I’m like, ‘Bro, we within the Finals, bro. Play’… So TA makes this magical Covid restoration. I do know he nonetheless had it. Ain’t no means, bruh. It’s (meant to be) 14 days, he’s again in three. So he’s again. When he sees him… they began hooping.”
Thanasis has lengthy been ridiculed on-line, together with his lowlight reels typically doing the rounds on social media. However clearly his presence serves a function when the workforce’s greatest participant wants him round so badly.
Teague added that Thanasis introduced quite a lot of worth to the workforce in different methods too.
“His power was contagious,” he mentioned. “He runnin’ within the locker room, Covid and the whole lot that he received, yelling, screaming. And I’m like, ‘Yeah, he issues.’ Like, he makes a distinction for our workforce. When he’s not right here, one thing’s not clicking. However when TA was there, he made it, he mattered.”
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