If Antetokounmpo were to decide his next challenge is indeed elsewhere, the Bucks will have a decision to make on whether to trade him after 2023-24 – or two seasons after this one. That means the last year of the deal the Bucks have any say in is 2024-25.
The extension he signed includes a player-option for the fifth year in 2025-26. The two-year timeline Antetokounmpo mentioned wasn’t an abstract, either. So sometimes you’re going to have to manufacture what those challenges are.” The next challenge is, let’s repeat.’ But what happens if you do repeat? What’s the next challenge? What is that next barrier? When you think about it from a basketball perspective, by the age of 26, this kid has accomplished everything. “I don’t think it’s, ‘I’m thinking about leaving the Bucks,' " Saratsis said in the piece. "But I think he’s genuinely like: ‘Okay, I have reached the pinnacle. Writer Zach Baron posed the natural follow-up to Antetokounmpo’s agent, Alex Saratsis, if it meant leaving Milwaukee was on his mind. “Me and my family chose to stay in this city that we all love and has taken care of us -for now.
What’s the next challenge? The next challenge might not be here.” “One challenge was to bring a championship here and we did. The phrase has become one of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s most oft-used colloquialisms, be it regarding his own health after a scary knee injury in last year’s Eastern Conference finals to what may or may not happen on the court with the Milwaukee Bucks.īut it doesn’t mean he doesn’t look ahead.Īnd in a recent GQ Magazine profile as its “ Athlete of the Year,” the magazine chronicled what being a father has meant to him, the mental toll his path to basketball greatness has taken and – of course – his decision to sign an extension with the Bucks in December 2020 and winning an NBA title.Īlso in the interview, Antetokounmpo acknowledged his future challenges may not include Milwaukee.