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When Giannis Met Milwaukee: A Love Story (Encore)

ESPN Daily

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Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Athletes often say they love the city where they play, but Giannis Antetokounmpo takes it to a new level. He’s called Milwaukee home since the team drafted him in 2013. It wasn’t a given that the Greek native, a son of Nigerian immigrants, would stay in the midwestern city. But his massive 2020 contract extension shows the love is mutual. In an encore of one of our favorite episodes from the last year, our own ESPN Daily producer (and Wisconsin native) Ryan Nantell digs into a legendary anecdote from Giannis’ rookie season that shows why he and Milwaukee have been such a good fit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So, tonight is Thanksgiving Eve, and that's a pretty high stakes evening, right?

0:06.8

Hello, by the way, hi, it's me, Pablo.

0:11.1

And you probably need something to listen to as you prepare to possibly run into your

0:15.9

arch-nemesis from high school at the local bar near your parents' house.

0:20.2

Or maybe you need something to sneak into one earbud as your relatives are going on about

0:26.2

their theories about things.

0:28.4

Or maybe you're just really excited for the Milwaukee Bucks Chicago Bulls game tonight.

0:34.2

For all of these reasons, this episode is, I think, what you might need.

0:40.0

It's on my favorite episodes from the entire year.

0:43.0

It is about a relatively under-explored aspect of the Yanis-Anne de Kumpos story.

0:48.1

And it is all about his relationship with his adopted home city of Milwaukee, and all

0:53.7

of the people who helped him feel at home.

0:58.7

So it is Wednesday, November 23rd, Thanksgiving Eve.

1:05.1

And this is ESPN Daily.

1:09.5

Ryan Entel, ESPN Daily Producer, I'm super excited to have you on the show today for

1:14.4

a special reason, so tell us what you've been looking into.

1:18.2

Yeah, so as a Bucks fan, there's long been something that felt kind of mysterious to me

1:25.6

about a little piece of Yanis' story.

1:28.4

This is an area of like what we talk about when we talk about Yanis that didn't totally

1:33.2

add up for me.

1:34.4

And that being is often expressed love for the city of Milwaukee.

1:44.2

When I came here, you know, feeling love with the city, the city that knows basketball.

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