Giannis Antetokounmpo Nearly Retired In 2020
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | So like I, everybody's got stressful lives. |
| 0:16.0 | I've got stressful life. |
| 0:16.8 | You've got stressful life. |
| 0:19.2 | Then you realize that your favorite NBA player probably feels and has that same stress, right? |
| 0:24.2 | Only multiplied by 10,000, 2,000. |
| 0:29.6 | The pressure of being Janus or being a pro basketball player got so bad that Janice, |
| 0:36.7 | Anza Tocumpo, one of the nicest guys in the NBA, recently told |
| 0:39.9 | Lori Nicol of the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, that he nearly gave it all up, that he nearly |
| 0:46.9 | retired. Excuse me? What did you say? He retired. Yes, the article explains it like this. |
| 0:57.8 | Being Janus means something he never envisioned when he became the best player in the NBA being yonis is a spectacle it's noisy it's an approach |
| 1:03.2 | a wave a hello a camera in his face it's someone on the side asking for a moment of his time |
| 1:08.9 | when he doesn't have a moment to spare he's always courteous and polite and still wildly approachable. |
| 1:14.6 | Janus himself was more succinct. |
| 1:17.6 | Everybody, no matter where I am, everybody is watching me. |
| 1:21.1 | I don't think I have the time to turn it off and be myself, kind of just be me. |
| 1:25.7 | And all of that, the stress of being Janus led him to almost quit the game in 2020 during |
| 1:33.0 | the bubble. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.6 | Janus almost retired before he got started. |
| 1:38.0 | In 2020, I was ready to walk away from the game. |
| 1:40.9 | I had that conversation with the front office, he says. |
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