{"id":244064,"date":"2019-07-05T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=244064"},"modified":"2019-07-05T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T11:42:10","slug":"nba-giannis-antetokounmpo-thanks-god-in-mvp-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/nba-giannis-antetokounmpo-thanks-god-in-mvp-acceptance-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Giannis Antetokounmpo thanks God in MVP acceptance speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">On Monday night, June 24, NBA commissioner Adam Silver stood on stage and announced Giannis Antetokounmpo was the winner of the 2019 NBA MVP award, Sports Spectrum <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsspectrum.com\/sport\/basketball\/2019\/06\/26\/nba-mvp-giannis-antetokounmpo-thanks-god-in-mvp-acceptance-speech\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">A very emotional Antetokounmpo came to the stage to accept the award, and after fighting back a few tears, gave thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">\u201cFirst of all, I want to thank God for blessing me with this amazing talent, for putting me in the position that I am today,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything I do, I do through Him. I\u2019m extremely blessed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">Antetokounmpo showed raw emotion as he thanked his teammates, his coaching staff and the Milwaukee Bucks front office for helping him on his journey. But it was when he thanked his family, starting with his late father, his brothers and his mom, whom he called \u201chis true hero,\u201d that he began to break down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">The 2018-19 season was amazing for Antetokounmpo. Known as \u201cThe Greek Freak,\u201d he averaged 27.7 points and 12.5 rebounds per game in leading the Bucks to the best record in the NBA. The 24-year-old forward from Greece beat out Thunder forward Paul George and Rockets guard James Harden to win the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2OZZp3k_EqI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">In 2015,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Antetokounmpo wrote in a blog<\/span>\u00a0that his motto for life was based off of 2 Corinthians 5:7:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">When I was 15 years old, I\u2019d tried to get in the selection of the 12 best players in the school championships. I\u2019d been cut from the top ones. Most of the kids that were in the top 12 do not play basketball professionally. I\u2019m in the NBA.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">On the occasion of this story that took place a few years ago, I\u2019ll reveal my motto to you, the one that only my family knows about: Walk By Faith, NOT by sight!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">I believe that this is the right attitude to life for everyone! I just need to be the better son, brother and human being I can.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 22.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Karla',serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.4pt;\">Antetokounmpo is the third-youngest player to win MVP over the past 40 seasons, following Derrick Rose and LeBron James. He is also the fifth player born outside the U.S. to win the award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Active News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, June 24, NBA commissioner Adam Silver stood on stage and announced Giannis Antetokounmpo was the winner of the 2019 NBA MVP award, Sports Spectrum reports. A very emotional Antetokounmpo came to the stage to accept the award, and after fighting back a few tears, gave thanks. \u201cFirst of all, I want to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches"],"better_featured_image":{"id":244065,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":276,"file":"2019\/07\/156747-1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"156747-1-360x276.jpg","width":360,"height":276,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/156747-1-360x276.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":244064,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/156747-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244064\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=244064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244064\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244065\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=244064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=244064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=244064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}