Μake us preferred on Google Giannis Antetokounmpo is spending part of the NBA offseason in Greece with his wife, Mariah, and their children, but one family photograph has carried more weight than the usual holiday snapshot.
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The NBA superstar photographed one of his sons on Lycabettus Hill, in the same Athens location where Giannis himself had been photographed years earlier, before his pro career took him from Greece to the NBA.
The timing is particularly significant as Antetokounmpo is entering a new chapter of his basketball career after ending a 13-year run with the Milwaukee Bucks in June and joining the Miami Heat in a blockbuster trade.
The move ended one of the most consequential player-franchise relationships in recent NBA history. Antetokounmpo spent his entire NBA career with Milwaukee after being selected in the 2013 draft and became the franchise’s defining player, leading the Bucks to the 2021 NBA championship.
Back in Athens, the Lycabettus photograph places the focus elsewhere: not on the NBA, trophies or celebrity encounters, but on the origins of the journey and the family with whom he is passing that story on.
