MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo is celebrating his twenty seventh birthday by returning to the Milwaukee Bucks’ lineup after a two-game absence.
The 2-time MVP is listed among the many Bucks’ 5 starters for his or her recreation Monday evening with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Antetokounmpo had been listed as questionable because of a sore proper calf that knocked him out for the earlier two video games.
“We’ll see how he feels when he warms up and decide it,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer mentioned Monday earlier than the lineups have been launched.
The Bucks cut up the 2 video games Antetokounmpo missed final week.
Of their first recreation with out him, the Bucks misplaced 97-93 at Toronto on Thursday to snap an eight-game successful streak. They rebounded at dwelling two nights later by rolling to a 124-102 victory over Miami.
Antetokounmpo is scoring 27.6 factors per recreation this season to rank second within the NBA, behind Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant. He is additionally averaging 11.8 rebounds and 6 assists.
Denver’s Nikola Jokić is the one different NBA participant averaging at the very least 25 factors, 10 rebounds and 5 assists this season.