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[dramatic music playing]
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Thank you, Lord, for this, uh, gathering.
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Thank you, Lord,
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for giving us wisdom.
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We trust you God Almighty to guide
and protect us and lead us
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to whatever we are
going to do in Jesus' name.
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[all] Amen.
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When Daddy had us,
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Daddy had zero money,
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you know? Uh...
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But he was the richest person
in the world.
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He was the richest person
in the world because he had us.
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Do you think Dad is watching
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and he's proud of us,
what we've accomplished?
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He'd really be proud of us,
he's very, very proud.
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He would be smiling.
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The dinner's for him,
that's why there's an empty seat,
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to honor him.
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He's here, he's sitting right there.
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[Giannis] Where I came from,
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what I face in my life,
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family is the most sacred
and the most important thing,
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uh, the closest thing to my heart.
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[dramatic music playing]
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People might say
I'm one of the best players
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in the NBA right now, but...
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I don't... I don't... I don't see it.
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I don't... I don't feel it.
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I'm just a hard worker
that's trying to survive
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because I'm scared of going back.
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I'm scared of losing all this.
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My name is, uh, Giannis Antetokounmpo.
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[dramatic music playing]
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I wanna be an NBA player.
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People think that I'm extreme.
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I want the MVP.
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{\an8}- [laughter]
- [Giannis] That's why I'm here.
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That mentality can't change.
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Like I grew up seeing all that shit.
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Whatever you tell me
does not touch me one bit.
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- [announcer 1] Giannis!
- [announcer 2] Giannis!
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[announcer 3] Giannis Antetokounmpo!
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[announcer 4]
That's why they call him the Freak.
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[crowd] MVP! MVP!
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Hey, guys, say hello to the camera.
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I'm trying to do something
my dad would be proud of.
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[yells]
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Giannis, you have something to give
when it comes to giving back.
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{\an8}[crowd yelling]
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[chanting] Antetokounmpo!
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Antetokounmpo!
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Oh, my God.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Giannis] There's no failure in sports.
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It's steps to success.
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{\an8}Who's that...
who's that handsome guy over there?
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[man] Leading up to the 2022
EuroBasket tournament,
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the four Antetokounmpo brothers
were called up
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in the senior national team
for the first time.
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{\an8}- [indistinct chatter]
- Just being able to participate
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{\an8}and represent our country
and wear that jersey
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{\an8}with your brothers,
it's, uh, it's an awesome feeling.
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That's a story
that you can tell your grandkids.
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[man] Seeing Giannis, Thanasis,
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Alex, and Kostas
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on the same team, it's unbelievable.
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Sometimes they don't even say
anything to each other.
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They communicate with their eyes.
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Kolos kai vraki.
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[laughing]
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It's a Greek saying.
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It's basically, you're connected
like underwear and a butt.
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- [laughter]
- [men speaking Greek]
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Your relationship is so close
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with your family like it's,
"Kolos kai vraki",
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So, you... your underwear and your butt.
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So, it's a saying that
a lot of Greek people use.
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Thanasis, he's always tried
to protect me and look after me,
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and I do the same thing
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for my two younger brothers...
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[laughter]
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...because that's how our dad raised us.
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[singing in Greek]
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[Veronica]
All my kids are on the national team,
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a place that I don't have
even a resident permit.
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{\an8}That's so great.
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{\an8}So wonderful.
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[Giannis] Being able to wear that jersey,
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uh, it's heavy.
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[announcers speaking Greek]
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[Giannis] Nothing is given in this life.
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You earn every single thing you get.
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And it's been like that
since when we were kids.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Veronica] I grew up
in, uh, Delta state in Nigeria.
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I'm from Igbo. My husband is Yoruba.
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My husband said we should leave.
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{\an8}Life in Nigeria in the '80s and '90s
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was particularly challenging.
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You have oil spillage
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that began to pollute the waters.
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People couldn't have access
to good drinking water.
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[male reporter] Health authorities say
the soot in the air
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is increasing respiratory ailments
in the state.
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[female reporter]
Life expectancy in the region is 40,
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ten years below the country's average.
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[Dr. Korieh] People were being forced
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to seek opportunities elsewhere.
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Europe provides opportunities
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which you are not gonna find
in many African countries.
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[Veronica] We left...
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looking for greener pastures,
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looking for better life.
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That's why we left.
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It was a difficult decision to leave
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because I have my child in Nigeria
that I'm going to leave.
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I left him with grandmom.
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It was difficult for me
leaving him behind.
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[Kostas] When they left,
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they had to leave behind
my older brother Francis
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because the journey, it was hard,
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you know, it wasn't fit for a child.
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[Veronica] I stopped in Greece
and said, "Okay,
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here's enough. Let's start life here."
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{\an8}The dream of every father
is wherever you go,
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{\an8}you should be able to give your children
a better education.
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I need to look for another
good living for my...
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for the next generation after me,
which is my children, you see.
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So that's why I decided to leave.
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When they left and went for a better life
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and moved and said,
"Okay, we're going somewhere else,
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we don't know anybody there.
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We're gonna save up this little money
to get us for the first month
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and then we're gonna start working."
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[Giannis] All the risk was...
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on my... on my parents.
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Going to a country
that they didn't speak their language,
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they don't have the same skin color,
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leaving my older brother behind.
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That's the example
of the ultimate sacrifice.
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My parents were never able
to bring Francis to Greece.
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It took 26 years
until they saw Francis again.
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[Kostas] Thanasis, Giannis, me,
and Alex, we were all born in Greece.
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Thanasis is two years older than Giannis.
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Then Giannis is three years older than me,
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then it's me, Kostas,
I'm four years older than Alex.
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The rules in Greece,
once you're born here,
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you don't automatically get
Greek citizenship.
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So while we was living here,
it was basically illegal too.
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[Alex] Greece has one of the biggest gaps
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as far as the way
that immigrants are treated.
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{\an8}We've always been outsiders.
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We had to pretty much live in fear.
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[Papadojannis] Greek is a white society.
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Up until the turn of the century,
there were not many immigrants in Greece.
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From the year 2000,
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suddenly there was a huge influx
of immigrants.
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Greece also underwent bankruptcy.
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[reporter]
The Greek government stands accused
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of hiding its true economic situation.
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Greece's national debt stands
at almost $420 billion.
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[Papadojannis] Many people
were trying to blame others
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for the fact that they were starving
or out of work.
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And the easy scapegoats were
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those who had different skin color.
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I don't think
it was only the color of your skin.
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You could be from a different country.
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You could have different beliefs
than them,
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different, you know, uh,
religion than them.
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[crowd chanting in Greek]
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[Papadojannis] There was a group
masquerading as a political party
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called the Golden Dawn.
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They went out in the streets
spreading violence
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running after immigrants.
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[explosions]
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Running after people like Giannis.
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[dramatic music playing]
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If it's a school night, and we have to
be back, we have to be back.
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It doesn't matter.
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No bus, no bus. We have to walk.
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[Giannis] Kostas is three years
younger than me,
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Alex is seven years younger than me.
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I tell them like,
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"Yo, do you think we can get home
in like two minutes?"
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It's like...
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like, "Yeah, let's just jog."
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
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boom, boom, boom, boom.
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"Man, like, oh, wow.
I think that was like three minutes."
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[Alex] Giannis and Thanasis,
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they would kind of like disguise it
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to the point that you thought as a kid,
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"Oh, I'm just playing this game."
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In my head, I'm thinking
that this is actually a game,
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but he's trying to make us
run through these neighborhoods
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so nothing can happen to us.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Next time, I was like,
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"Yo, I think that was like
three and a half minutes."
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They were just happy.
They would just go with it.
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But in me, I was... I was scared as fuck.
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Some group of people are just gonna
pop out of nowhere and try to kill us.
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[Alex] There was a metro stop.
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They had their headquarters
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across from that metro station so like...
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and that metro station was two stops
away from where we lived.
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{\an8}A lot of the times, what those people
would do is kind of
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{\an8}wait at that metro station
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and see whoever was of color,
kind of drag them out of the metro,
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physically assault them,
rob them, or humiliate them.
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Everybody at that station
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that was of color is like ducking
so it appears that the metro is empty.
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Giannis, he always kind of
had that proud dad role.
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He was like,
"Yo, you guys take a look around.
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All these people are being scared
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and afraid of a group of people
for doing absolutely nothing."
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[train bell dinging]
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You, um...
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You, um, you want the best
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for your brothers, you know?
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[sobbing]
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Oh, man. [sniffles]
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It's hard to share, um,
stories like that for me
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because I always look...
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try to protect my brothers in the best...
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the best way I can.
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He's... he's... he was young.
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Yeah, he doesn't know what's going on...
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It's just... it's, you know,
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hiding for... people
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because people don't like him.
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As an immigrant, you are nothing.
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I would pray,
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"God, please have mercy, God."
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You just have to keep moving on,
you just have to find different ways
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to survive, so that's what we did.
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[Alex] My parents, they would sell goods.
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CDs, watches,
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sunglasses.
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[Thanasis] Anything that was
hot at the time.
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We'd go to the beach,
you wanna sell glasses,
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you wanna sell handbags,
you wanna sell, like, towels.
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If my dad is working
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and my mom is working,
who's gonna take care of us?
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We don't have nobody,
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so we have to go with them.
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Been selling stuff
since I was four years old.
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I was always trying to do whatever I could
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to help my family in any way possible.
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[Thanasis] I wasn't selling
to try to make a profit.
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I was selling because I have to eat.
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Because I got to go home
and buy groceries for this day.
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I just want to live. I got to survive.
I got to take care of my family.
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[Giannis] If you don't work,
you don't eat.
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It's just words for people,
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you know, but for me
and my family it was... it's a mindset.
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That was our life.
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[Thanasis] I didn't know
if my mom or dad, they ate.
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I don't know.
I've never... I never saw them.
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My mom and my dad had an unwritten rule
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that the kids never go to bed
without eating.
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My mom and dad might have went days.
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The main thing was always putting food
on the table for the four of us.
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If you don't give them food today,
tomorrow, they'll get sick.
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You survive them. You help them.
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Be there for them.
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Even when I'm tired, even when I'm weak,
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I never show them.
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You know, we're fighters, you know,
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my family was fighters and...
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we just kept on going.
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In me, I know the future
is going to be bright.
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I don't give up.
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[Giannis] The first time I was introduced
to basketball, I was 11 years old.
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I was playing with my dad
and we had like this soccer ball.
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And we're shooting and my dad was like
telling us always aim for the backboard.
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If you get to the backboard,
it's gonna go in.
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It's false.
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{\an8}[commentator speaking Greek]
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{\an8}Back home, we had this very small TV,
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we were watching this guy named
Sofoklis Schortsanitis.
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[announcer] Up ahead to big man
Schortsanitis for the dunk!
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In it goes to Baby Shaq, and he scores!
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He was beating the USA team, dominating.
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And I was like,
"Man, like he's... he's Black,
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and he's playing for
the Greek national team. Wow."
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{\an8}[announcer] And they don't have
an answer for Sofoklis Schortsanitis.
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[Alex] We never had Wi-Fi.
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So, there was a thing called
an internet cafe, right?
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[Thanasis] So, internet cafe,
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you go in, you give let's say
one euro for one hour.
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We used to go watch highlights of the NBA.
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[Giannis] Ricky Rubio, Magic Johnson,
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KD, Scottie Pippen,
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Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Paul Pierce.
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Allen Iverson to Michael Jordan.
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It was kind of like almost
like star struck in... through a screen.
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Internet cafe would say,
"Okay, you guys, your time is done."
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And I would rush
to the cashier, I'd be like,
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"Oh, take 50 cents. Just give me
like 20 more minutes to see the video."
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Can we have five more minutes?
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It was like, "Just this time.
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Just this time, Giannis. No more."
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"Like, yeah, just five more minutes."
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When I was 12 years old,
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I watched the Lakers playing the Celtics.
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I saw Kobe Bryant.
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I Googled, how much money
does Kobe Bryant makes?
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And it came out, you know,
at the time was like 28, $30 million.
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And I'm like, holy fucking shit.
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He's making a living.
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And he's worldwide known and...
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from basketball, from something he loves.
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I could take care of my family.
I could take care of my family.
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I took it serious, you know,
it was very personal.
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The dream was I have to put
everything I have in this
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because I might not make $30 million.
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I might make $100,000.
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It's better than getting evicted
for €210.
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There was a point around, like, 15...
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that I stuck with it.
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Thanasis joined Filathlitikos.
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{\an8}[commentator speaking Greek]
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{\an8}[Giannis] And I joined him.
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When I got to the team,
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my job was to mop the floor.
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I did it a thousand times.
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I came from a time
that I had to do something
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in order for me to survive.
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I couldn't sit on my butt
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and things happened for me.
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The first time we heard
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about the Antetokounmpo brothers
was about Thanasis.
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It wasn't about Giannis.
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[yelling]
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Thanasis was super athletic.
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A couple of teams in the first division
wanted to get him.
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Yeah! Yeah!
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There would be fans that would leave
the pros to come see us play
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because the basketball
we would play was incredible.
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[commentator speaking Greek]
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[Stavrou]
There was a whole buzz in Greece.
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At some point, somebody said that Thanasis
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also has a younger brother
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who may be more talented.
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[man] Can you tell us your name?
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My name is, uh, Giannis Antetokounmpo.
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[announcer speaking Greek]
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{\an8}Everybody was talking about
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a tall guy with huge hands
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who was jumping all over the place,
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so I wanted to witness it on the court.
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He was like a young Magic Johnson.
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[man]
What kind of basketball player are you?
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I can jump. I can shoot.
I can pass the ball.
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I can do everything on the court.
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His feel of the game,
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this was different.
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He knew what was going on around him,
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and the guy had never played
organized basketball in his life.
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It was the first game my dad
came to watch me play.
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I think I had like 27,
and we won the game.
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He said, "Giannis."
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I was like, "What, Dad?"
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"You're pretty good."
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{\an8}All the European teams are coming
to like scout and watch him.
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His first professional contract
that he ever signed
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was to the team Zaragoza in Spain,
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{\an8}and the contract was going to pay him
like $20,000 a year,
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which for them
was astronomical amounts of money.
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I was 17, and the first thing I did,
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I came with a truck
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and I told my parents,
I'm like, "Let's go.
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Just take everything that you want
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and just put it in the truck."
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And my dad's like, "I'm not taking shit.
378
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Let's get the heck out of here."
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[man] What is your goal for your career?
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I wanna be an NBA... NBA player.
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[man] Jeff Weltman
was the assistant GM at the time.
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{\an8}Very simply said...
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{\an8}"Hammer, there's a guy,
a young kid in Athens
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that's really playing well right now
385
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and really starting to gather
a lot of attention."
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And he said, "We should go see him."
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00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:26,262
{\an8}It's a small gym in the middle of Athens,
this major metropolitan city.
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His mom and dad
were sitting right behind us.
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You know, I thought to myself,
this is different because, you know,
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how often do you go see a guy
walk in the gym the very first day
391
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and everybody's there, he,
his brothers, and his mother and father?
392
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We just saw him practice that day.
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He was the tallest guy
on the floor and he did everything.
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He handled the ball like a point guard.
395
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You can see this amazing feel
that he had for the game.
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3And then we saw this guy
with this amazing body, this crazy length,
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these long legs,
these extremely long arms.
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And he had the big shoulders.
399
00:23:05,802 --> 00:23:09,222
So you saw a frame
that could possibly get big.
400
00:23:09,222 --> 00:23:11,682
What we saw, we liked.
401
00:23:11,682 --> 00:23:15,770
We didn't go back.
We felt like we didn't need to go back.
402
00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:19,315
{\an8}[buzzer sounds]
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{\an8}[Papadojannis] We get the NBA scouts,
dozens of them,
404
00:23:22,693 --> 00:23:27,865
{\an8}coming to an obscure little arena
in the outskirts of Athens
405
00:23:27,865 --> 00:23:31,202
just to watch this guy
that not even the Greeks knew about.
406
00:23:31,202 --> 00:23:33,037
[announcer] Antetokounmpo.
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00:23:33,037 --> 00:23:34,580
[Papadojannis] Reports from the US
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started appearing
that he was going to be drafted.
409
00:23:38,292 --> 00:23:40,169
The Nigerians,
410
00:23:40,169 --> 00:23:43,881
the country that his parents was born in,
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they appear out of nowhere too.
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00:23:45,758 --> 00:23:50,763
They swoop in and they tried
to get passports for the boys
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in order to use them
for their Olympic team,
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their national team.
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Giannis got a Greek passport
because the government wanted to make sure
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that he played for the Greek national team
as opposed to the Nigerian national team.
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00:24:03,234 --> 00:24:06,070
Life literally changed overnight,
like, overnight.
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00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:08,364
Met the prime minister.
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And mind you,
the time that my father and my mother
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went to meet the Prime Minister of Greece,
they were illegal.
421
00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:21,002
Then my dad was walking around by himself,
and they stopped him in the street.
422
00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:24,297
They could have deported him
back to Nigeria.
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[Papadojannis] It's wrong to say
that the Greek society
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embraced Antetokounmpo.
425
00:24:29,093 --> 00:24:31,846
Anybody else who doesn't know
how to play ball
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has no opportunity
to leave this life behind.
427
00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:44,108
[Saratsis] We had arranged
for Giannis to come to the US.
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00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:46,068
{\an8}Before he's supposed to get on the plane,
429
00:24:46,068 --> 00:24:49,405
{\an8}he calls and says he's not coming
unless his family is gonna come with him.
430
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:52,158
{\an8}Now, not possible.
His family was undocumented.
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00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:54,911
They had no passports,
only him and Thanasis had passports.
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And so I told him, if you don't come,
right, like all of this planning,
433
00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:02,001
everything that we have,
it's all out the window.
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00:25:03,002 --> 00:25:06,130
His father told him,
"You need to go. We'll be okay,
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00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:09,800
this is gonna be important for the family,
and this will change our lives."
436
00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:13,554
And it was almost like getting
his father's... got his father's blessing.
437
00:25:16,224 --> 00:25:20,186
[Giannis] I was grateful for the moment,
but I was very nervous.
438
00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:22,563
I was selling stuff
in the streets six months ago.
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00:25:24,482 --> 00:25:26,400
[Thanasis]
I remember we went to the airport.
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They flew us like business class.
441
00:25:29,779 --> 00:25:31,864
You know how the seat is,
you know when you have like this,
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00:25:31,864 --> 00:25:35,034
you're sitting in the middle,
you have this, and I'm like taking this,
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00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:37,245
and I'm looking at Giannis,
"Yo, what's going on, yo?"
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00:25:37,954 --> 00:25:40,248
[Giannis] It was me,
Thanasis, and my agent.
445
00:25:40,248 --> 00:25:45,169
He showed us like the... we had the papers
and he showed us like the receipt.
446
00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:48,547
It was like €22,800.
447
00:25:49,507 --> 00:25:52,051
And I'm like, holy fuck.
448
00:25:52,051 --> 00:25:54,637
Why didn't he just give us the money?
We can just stay home.
449
00:25:55,721 --> 00:25:57,265
[Thanasis]
They're giving us, like, drinks.
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How they offered you like a champagne,
451
00:25:58,766 --> 00:26:00,476
or they offer you this,
we're like, "I don't think...
452
00:26:00,476 --> 00:26:03,104
I don't think
we're allowed to, you know, drink."
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00:26:03,104 --> 00:26:06,232
Thanasis was like,
he was more out of his shell, was like,
454
00:26:06,232 --> 00:26:08,359
"Can I have a Shirley Temple, please?"
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00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,112
I'm like, "What the fuck?
What the hell is a Shirley Temple?"
456
00:26:11,112 --> 00:26:13,322
"Yeah, me too. Let me get one."
457
00:26:14,532 --> 00:26:17,243
[man] We land, we get in the car.
We go into New York.
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{\an8}He was like the deer,
it's coming the lights,
459
00:26:20,663 --> 00:26:23,499
{\an8}like this watching the skyscrapers.
460
00:26:27,003 --> 00:26:31,465
[in Greek] Guys, right now
we are in a limousine. Man!
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I am out of my mind.
I could not have imagined this.
462
00:26:35,052 --> 00:26:36,429
Check this out.
463
00:26:39,348 --> 00:26:41,809
And now Thanasis is getting in.
464
00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:43,144
[in English] Hey, what up, boy?
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Yes, it's ball. Whoo.
466
00:26:46,188 --> 00:26:48,607
I told him, "What you bring to,
you know, to wear?"
467
00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:51,777
He said, "What you mean?
I have my Nike shorts, a Nike..."
468
00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:53,362
Come on, come on, come on.
469
00:26:53,362 --> 00:26:56,449
So I went on my phone,
I Google, you know, the previous draft,
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what people were wearing.
471
00:27:02,204 --> 00:27:04,332
I've never wore a suit in my... my life.
472
00:27:04,332 --> 00:27:07,918
I had to find somebody at that time
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00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:10,963
that was in New York
to tailor a suit for him.
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00:27:11,922 --> 00:27:15,176
Thanasis is more into fashion
than me and he's like, "Yeah, I'm...
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00:27:15,176 --> 00:27:17,636
I'm gonna wear this,
I think I'm gonna pick that,
476
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:19,180
and I'm gonna wear some glasses,
477
00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:22,433
and, uh, wear a bracelet
and I'mma pick some shoes."
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00:27:22,433 --> 00:27:24,393
I'm like looking at him and it's like...
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00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:28,105
"Okay, whatever. I'll do the same."
480
00:27:29,815 --> 00:27:33,069
{\an8}[man] Welcome to the 2013 NBA Draft.
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{\an8}With the first pick,
the Cleveland Cavaliers
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select Anthony Bennett.
483
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,328
With the fourth pick, Cody Zeller.
484
00:27:42,328 --> 00:27:44,121
With the fifth pick, Alex Len.
485
00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:48,084
It was a mix of everything,
mix of excitement, nervous.
486
00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:52,630
With the 14th pick in the 2013 NBA Draft,
487
00:27:54,131 --> 00:27:58,511
the Utah Jazz select Shabazz Muhammad.
488
00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:02,890
Milwaukee Bucks
are on the clock right now.
489
00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:04,683
My head was down. Hold on.
490
00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:09,355
Like, I was praying the whole time.
I was like this.
491
00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:14,026
[coughs]
492
00:28:14,026 --> 00:28:15,986
[Thanasis] And I looked at the stage.
493
00:28:15,986 --> 00:28:18,155
And he looked at the paper
494
00:28:18,155 --> 00:28:23,744
and he had trouble saying it and I said,
"Oh, my God, it's about to be us."
495
00:28:23,744 --> 00:28:28,874
With the 15th pick in the 2013 NBA Draft,
496
00:28:30,209 --> 00:28:32,002
the Milwaukee Bucks
497
00:28:33,295 --> 00:28:36,841
select Giannis Antetokounmpo
from Athens, Greece.
498
00:28:36,841 --> 00:28:39,260
Giannis Antetokounmpo. Athens, Greece.
499
00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:49,103
[Thanasis] I hugged my brother.
500
00:28:49,645 --> 00:28:50,479
I waved the flag.
501
00:28:53,399 --> 00:28:57,736
We worked so hard
and God gave us an opportunity.
502
00:28:59,447 --> 00:29:02,825
[Giannis] And I went and shaked
the commissioner hand,
503
00:29:02,825 --> 00:29:05,578
and then he told me,
"Look over there." I looked.
504
00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:07,913
He told me, "Look over there."
I looked, smiled.
505
00:29:07,913 --> 00:29:11,584
And was like...
"Thank you, your journey begins."
506
00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:16,088
I jumped. [laughs]
507
00:29:16,088 --> 00:29:18,591
I hurt myself, I said, "God.
508
00:29:18,591 --> 00:29:22,303
This has changed.
My son is going to NBA. God."
509
00:29:22,303 --> 00:29:24,388
Well, with me
the youngest player in the draft,
510
00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:27,975
- Giannis Antetokounmpo.
- Yeah.
511
00:29:27,975 --> 00:29:30,895
{\an8}It was, you know,
mispronounced millions of times
512
00:29:30,895 --> 00:29:33,355
{\an8}to the point of absurdity.
513
00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:34,899
[man] Giannis Antetokounmpo.
514
00:29:34,899 --> 00:29:37,443
[woman] Giannis Antetokounmpo.
515
00:29:37,443 --> 00:29:39,195
[man 2] Giannis Antetokounmpo.
516
00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:41,447
- [man 3] Antetokounmpo.
- [man 4] Antetokounmpo.
517
00:29:41,447 --> 00:29:42,615
I think I got that right.
518
00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:47,870
I looked at my phone
and I went, there was like 400 followers.
519
00:29:47,870 --> 00:29:50,539
All of a sudden, the followers,
like every time I refresh,
520
00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:56,504
it was like 1,000, 2,000,
3,000, 4,000, and I got to like 50,000.
521
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:02,468
[reporter] What will be
the more intimidating challenge,
522
00:30:02,468 --> 00:30:05,179
the basketball part or the cultural part?
523
00:30:05,179 --> 00:30:07,640
In the beginning,
that would be the culture.
524
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,936
You know, for sure, because I am...
I live in Greece for 18 years.
525
00:30:11,936 --> 00:30:14,104
You know, I never leave the country.
526
00:30:15,397 --> 00:30:19,068
It'll be a little bit difficult,
but I'll have my family together with me
527
00:30:20,361 --> 00:30:22,112
and it'll be easy.
528
00:30:22,112 --> 00:30:23,447
Yeah.
529
00:30:33,249 --> 00:30:36,627
Coming from overseas,
we talk about Chicago, New York,
530
00:30:36,627 --> 00:30:39,296
Miami, you know, those cities.
531
00:30:39,296 --> 00:30:41,840
I never... I never heard of
Milwaukee before.
532
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,218
I didn't know Milwaukee exist.
533
00:30:44,218 --> 00:30:45,386
[beeping]
534
00:30:45,386 --> 00:30:48,931
[upbeat music playing]
535
00:30:48,931 --> 00:30:52,977
♪ The Bucks don't stop here ♪
536
00:30:54,395 --> 00:30:58,190
[man] For the NBA world,
it was more of a layover.
537
00:30:58,190 --> 00:31:03,362
A pit stop to the next city,
overshadowed by Chicago.
538
00:31:06,031 --> 00:31:07,658
{\an8}It's a very proud franchise.
539
00:31:07,658 --> 00:31:13,372
{\an8}It starts with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
joining the team in the second season.
540
00:31:13,372 --> 00:31:17,251
{\an8}[announcer] And the Milwaukee Bucks
are the champions.
541
00:31:17,251 --> 00:31:20,004
{\an8}You played a great game.
Congratulations on the MVP.
542
00:31:20,004 --> 00:31:21,422
Thank you very much.
543
00:31:21,422 --> 00:31:23,507
And then eventually, he outgrew Milwaukee.
544
00:31:23,507 --> 00:31:27,511
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will officially
become a member of the Los Angeles Lakers.
545
00:31:27,511 --> 00:31:29,847
I know that he is happier in Los Angeles.
546
00:31:29,847 --> 00:31:33,517
Who couldn't be?
Milwaukee is no great place.
547
00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:35,936
[Nehm] And then after that,
it's trying to figure out
548
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:39,273
how you build another team
without a great player.
549
00:31:39,273 --> 00:31:41,275
[man]
The Bucks earned the right to draft you
550
00:31:41,275 --> 00:31:43,777
by being the league's
worst team last year.
551
00:31:43,777 --> 00:31:46,739
[Nehm] Really never being able
to get over the hump
552
00:31:46,739 --> 00:31:48,616
{\an8}and don't get to an NBA Finals again.
553
00:31:48,616 --> 00:31:50,242
{\an8}[announcer]
I have to give credit to the Bucks.
554
00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:53,495
{\an8}Their most wins in 15 years.
A wonderful season,
555
00:31:53,495 --> 00:31:54,997
but it will end in disappointment.
556
00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:59,209
{\an8}It was a battle.
I mean, I remember the ticket sellers
557
00:31:59,209 --> 00:32:02,212
{\an8}were working very hard all the time.
558
00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:06,675
Selling hope was the MO
in Milwaukee for a long time.
559
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:09,428
[reporter] Seemingly desperate
for immediate help in the backcourt,
560
00:32:09,428 --> 00:32:12,848
the Bucks select
a 6'10'' 18-year-old Greek forward.
561
00:32:12,848 --> 00:32:15,059
♪ Milwaukee Bucks ♪
562
00:32:15,059 --> 00:32:16,560
[door opens]
563
00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:20,939
{\an8}[Giannis] Hello.
564
00:32:39,166 --> 00:32:40,834
- [man] Glad to have you here.
- Welcome to the family.
565
00:32:40,834 --> 00:32:41,752
[both] Nice to meet you.
566
00:32:41,752 --> 00:32:42,670
- How you doin'?
- Giannis?
567
00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:44,171
- Yeah.
- [man 1] Giannis, sir.
568
00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:45,464
- [man 2] How's it going?
- How you doin'?
569
00:32:45,464 --> 00:32:46,548
Nice to meet you.
570
00:32:46,548 --> 00:32:48,133
- How's it going?
- Nice to meet you. How you doin'?
571
00:32:48,133 --> 00:32:49,343
- Nice to meet you. Welcome.
- Yeah.
572
00:32:49,343 --> 00:32:51,679
- So this is Jermel.
- Nice to meet you. How you doin'?
573
00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:53,347
Have you been out
to see anything in Milwaukee at all?
574
00:32:53,347 --> 00:32:54,556
- Have you gone...
- No.
575
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,433
- No, not yet?
- Not yet.
576
00:32:56,433 --> 00:32:57,518
Oh, what is that?
577
00:32:59,186 --> 00:33:00,437
The trophies.
578
00:33:02,564 --> 00:33:05,234
[Giannis whispering]
The NBA... [mutters]
579
00:33:10,781 --> 00:33:13,909
[Paschke] The Bucks
were a mom-and-pop operation.
580
00:33:13,909 --> 00:33:15,494
Nice.
581
00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:19,665
{\an8}The resources, of course,
weren't up to the big markets in the NBA.
582
00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:22,292
[dramatic music playing]
583
00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:29,133
[Paschke] The Bucks practice
at the Archbishop Cousins Center
584
00:33:29,133 --> 00:33:31,009
on the south side of Milwaukee.
585
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,763
It was the headquarters
for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
586
00:33:34,763 --> 00:33:38,559
And, you know, the archbishop lived there
and other priests lived there.
587
00:33:39,727 --> 00:33:43,188
[man] It felt like a private school's
basketball gym.
588
00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:46,525
We would have the priests come
589
00:33:46,525 --> 00:33:50,028
play pickup during their lunch breaks
after our practices.
590
00:33:52,156 --> 00:33:55,659
[Paschke] They'd walk right in the gym
during practice and take off their shirt,
591
00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:58,328
shirts and skins,
and be standing in the corner,
592
00:33:58,328 --> 00:34:00,914
essentially saying, "Get out of our gym."
593
00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:06,462
[man] Whether you guys are done or not,
we're going to play pickup at one o'clock.
594
00:34:06,462 --> 00:34:08,714
{\an8}'Cause this is what we do.
And if you wanna shoot,
595
00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:11,550
{\an8}you're gonna have to shoot
after we're done.
596
00:34:11,550 --> 00:34:14,178
The Cousins Center
needed a lot of repairs.
597
00:34:14,178 --> 00:34:16,221
Sometimes a light would go off.
598
00:34:17,139 --> 00:34:20,601
There would be a leak
and there would be buckets on the floor
599
00:34:20,601 --> 00:34:23,353
collecting water,
and we'd practice around it.
600
00:34:25,314 --> 00:34:29,526
For me, the Cousins Center was everything.
For other people, it might not be.
601
00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:32,780
They came with... from better facility.
They went to like college,
602
00:34:32,780 --> 00:34:36,658
big time college schools
that had better facility than the Bucks.
603
00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:37,951
I loved it.
604
00:34:38,744 --> 00:34:40,204
I think he was comfortable
605
00:34:40,204 --> 00:34:43,832
because it reminded him
of certain parts of home.
606
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,084
[man] Good.
607
00:34:47,544 --> 00:34:48,629
Like that every time.
608
00:34:48,629 --> 00:34:51,882
[Hammond] We didn't have a physical
on Giannis when we made the draft pick.
609
00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:53,550
One.
610
00:34:53,550 --> 00:34:57,846
{\an8}So we made the pick without our doctors
having a chance to put their hands on him.
611
00:34:57,846 --> 00:34:59,723
[man] Push.
612
00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:00,849
Good.
613
00:35:02,351 --> 00:35:03,352
Okay.
614
00:35:03,352 --> 00:35:05,771
When I came to the NBA,
they said I was 205.
615
00:35:05,771 --> 00:35:08,440
They lied. I was 191...
616
00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:12,277
if... I had like two burgers that day.
617
00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:15,823
{\an8}They did blood work test and they thought
that he was extremely anemic.
618
00:35:15,823 --> 00:35:17,574
He needs to eat more meat.
619
00:35:17,574 --> 00:35:19,952
We need to put him on a real diet.
620
00:35:19,952 --> 00:35:23,789
They were also amazed that like
his growth plates hadn't fully formed,
621
00:35:23,789 --> 00:35:25,582
that he was still gonna grow.
622
00:35:25,582 --> 00:35:27,793
And at that point,
he was like 6'8" and a half.
623
00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:29,253
[man] Here we go. Go!
624
00:35:31,421 --> 00:35:32,756
[indistinct]
625
00:35:32,756 --> 00:35:36,635
[Oppenheimer] My job primarily
was developing the young players.
626
00:35:38,262 --> 00:35:40,889
He was my responsibility,
you know, 18 years old,
627
00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:42,599
coming from a different country.
628
00:35:44,101 --> 00:35:48,105
Everything was new to him, um,
and I mean everything.
629
00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:52,359
[Giannis] Where I came from,
whenever you practice,
630
00:35:52,359 --> 00:35:54,695
you take your dirty clothes,
you put it in your bag,
631
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,196
you go back home and you wash it yourself.
632
00:35:56,196 --> 00:35:59,575
All of a sudden, while I work out
and I'm taking the clothes out,
633
00:35:59,575 --> 00:36:03,370
I'm about to put it in the bag
to go home and wash it,
634
00:36:03,370 --> 00:36:06,331
he's like, "Hey, hey, man,
what are you doing here?"
635
00:36:06,331 --> 00:36:07,875
"I'm sorry. I don't understand.
636
00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:11,253
I'm... I take the clothes
to go back home and wash the clothes
637
00:36:11,253 --> 00:36:13,922
and bring tomorrow."
He said, "No, no, no.
638
00:36:13,922 --> 00:36:16,466
Giannis, we... we wash here."
639
00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:19,720
I said, "I can wash the clothes here?"
640
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:23,307
He said, "No, no, no, we.
We wash the clothes here."
641
00:36:23,307 --> 00:36:25,517
I said, "You wash the clothes for me?"
642
00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:28,312
He said, "Yes. You come tomorrow,
the clothes will be washed."
643
00:36:28,312 --> 00:36:30,606
I said, "Oh, okay.
644
00:36:30,606 --> 00:36:33,942
Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.
I love the NBA."
645
00:36:33,942 --> 00:36:36,737
Giannis Antetokounmpo
has tried his very first corndog
646
00:36:36,737 --> 00:36:38,030
and apparently he liked it.
647
00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:40,115
"Just tried a corndog for the first time.
648
00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:42,618
Man, God bless America."
649
00:36:42,618 --> 00:36:44,870
I like three strawberries.
650
00:36:44,870 --> 00:36:48,707
He never knew what a smoothie was
until he had one when he came over here.
651
00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:51,251
I think that changed his world.
652
00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:52,711
Mm, mm, mm.
653
00:36:54,004 --> 00:36:55,422
We have lots of dough.
654
00:36:55,422 --> 00:36:57,090
[laughter]
655
00:36:57,090 --> 00:36:58,467
There we go.
656
00:36:59,301 --> 00:37:02,054
[Oppenheimer]
He's curious. He's asking questions.
657
00:37:02,846 --> 00:37:04,097
[woman] Somebody get a glass?
658
00:37:04,097 --> 00:37:05,432
Mm.
659
00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:07,976
- [woman] Yeah.
- [laughs]
660
00:37:07,976 --> 00:37:11,897
We were in Las Vegas for an NBA camp,
661
00:37:13,023 --> 00:37:16,735
and I said, "Look,
let's go have dinner at this buffet."
662
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:18,445
He said, "I can eat anything I want?"
663
00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:20,948
I said, "Yeah, it's a buffet.
Get as much as you want."
664
00:37:21,949 --> 00:37:27,162
I look up and approaching the table,
it's him with plates up his arms.
665
00:37:27,162 --> 00:37:30,582
And I'm looking at him and he says to me,
"Did I do something wrong?"
666
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,000
I said, "No, you didn't do anything wrong,
667
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,169
but you don't have to
get all the food at once."
668
00:37:34,169 --> 00:37:37,172
- [woman indistinct]
- Can I take the money?
669
00:37:37,172 --> 00:37:38,924
Yeah. [laughs]
670
00:37:40,842 --> 00:37:42,844
[man] You got to put something in,
make a wish.
671
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:47,015
- Like throw it down and make a wish?
- [man] Yup.
672
00:37:47,015 --> 00:37:49,267
Let me... let me...
let me tell you the wish?
673
00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:51,520
- [man] Do you want to?
- No.
674
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,230
[man] Just keep it a secret.
675
00:37:58,068 --> 00:38:02,572
[Giannis] I was raised in a way
that I value every dollar that I had.
676
00:38:02,572 --> 00:38:06,201
I didn't go crazy.
I never made a purchase.
677
00:38:06,201 --> 00:38:08,161
He'd send us money.
678
00:38:08,161 --> 00:38:10,288
Starting from that moment,
we never lacked.
679
00:38:11,248 --> 00:38:13,166
[Giannis] I would just go back and forth.
680
00:38:15,085 --> 00:38:18,171
Withdraw money, send money,
withdraw money, send money.
681
00:38:18,171 --> 00:38:21,425
When I was done, I got in this cab.
682
00:38:21,425 --> 00:38:25,637
I said, "Sir, I'm trying to go
to the Bradley Center."
683
00:38:25,637 --> 00:38:28,348
He say, "We don't take...
we don't accept cards.
684
00:38:28,348 --> 00:38:29,891
We accept only cash."
685
00:38:31,143 --> 00:38:34,229
I said, "Okay. Give me one second."
I went to the ATM.
686
00:38:35,105 --> 00:38:38,400
It said, "Insufficient funds."
687
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,319
Which I couldn't understand at the time
because my English was horrible.
688
00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:44,573
They said, "Yeah,
that's over your limit for the day."
689
00:38:45,991 --> 00:38:48,243
I said, "Okay."
We have a game like 30 minutes.
690
00:38:48,243 --> 00:38:50,996
I'm like, "Yeah."
691
00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:57,085
I ran, ran a couple blocks,
eight blocks, four blocks.
692
00:38:57,085 --> 00:38:59,004
I have never been that cold in my life.
693
00:38:59,004 --> 00:39:00,964
I couldn't move my hands.
694
00:39:00,964 --> 00:39:02,966
At the time,
the worst winter we've ever had
695
00:39:02,966 --> 00:39:05,886
in like 72 years or something.
696
00:39:05,886 --> 00:39:07,637
And I didn't have a coat.
697
00:39:07,637 --> 00:39:09,973
And everybody told me,
"Get yourself a winter coat."
698
00:39:09,973 --> 00:39:11,475
I'm like,
"No, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine."
699
00:39:11,475 --> 00:39:13,518
But I didn't know
what they were talking about
700
00:39:13,518 --> 00:39:15,520
because I've never...
I've never spent time in Milwaukee.
701
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:16,813
Now, I know.
702
00:39:18,774 --> 00:39:20,734
Then I was looking at my phone,
I'm like, "Ah, I might not make it."
703
00:39:20,734 --> 00:39:22,903
Then these people, this family showed up.
704
00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:28,700
He's like, "Aye, you know,
aren't you the guy from the...
705
00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:31,828
the Bucks' draft pick?" I was like, "Yes."
706
00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:35,082
I was like, "Sir, ma'am,
are you going to the game?"
707
00:39:35,082 --> 00:39:37,542
They was like, "Yeah."
I was like, "Is there any way
708
00:39:37,542 --> 00:39:39,461
you can take me to the game, please?"
709
00:39:39,836 --> 00:39:41,630
They was like, "Yeah."
710
00:39:42,798 --> 00:39:45,092
I got in the car, I was like, "Thank you."
711
00:39:47,177 --> 00:39:49,846
[dramatic music playing]
712
00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:52,641
[Oppenheimer] They pull up to
the Bradley Center and they drop him off,
713
00:39:52,641 --> 00:39:54,768
and I see him getting out of the car.
714
00:39:56,061 --> 00:39:57,896
And I said to him, "Who dropped you off?"
715
00:39:59,356 --> 00:40:01,650
And he said, "I don't know."
716
00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:03,735
And I said, "What do you mean
you don't know?"
717
00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:05,487
He said, "They were very nice people."
718
00:40:07,572 --> 00:40:09,699
That's the goodness in him.
719
00:40:09,699 --> 00:40:13,036
He saw the best
and he sees the best in everybody.
720
00:40:16,832 --> 00:40:19,501
This is the car, the first car
that I drive in my life.
721
00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:24,047
Indicator. Y'all got to indicate.
722
00:40:24,047 --> 00:40:26,466
[Oppenheimer]
We had a video guy named Ross
723
00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:28,969
and he sort of taught Giannis to drive.
724
00:40:28,969 --> 00:40:32,264
Here's Ross. He's my... he's my teacher.
725
00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:36,226
You've got to come to a complete stop
and wait until traffic is cleared.
726
00:40:38,353 --> 00:40:41,606
Hey, guys. Just to let you guys know,
I drive better than him.
727
00:40:41,606 --> 00:40:43,233
Oh.
728
00:40:43,233 --> 00:40:47,737
{\an8}You see him laughing and joking
and driving in the car with Ross.
729
00:40:47,737 --> 00:40:51,199
{\an8}Under that was this real sadness,
730
00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:55,162
this real loneliness.
731
00:40:56,830 --> 00:41:01,168
Before the draft, Alex said
his family's got to come with him.
732
00:41:01,168 --> 00:41:02,794
Okay. Now he's here.
733
00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:05,338
Now we gotta...
now we have to get the family here.
734
00:41:05,338 --> 00:41:07,591
And that's when we realized
what we're up against.
735
00:41:07,591 --> 00:41:10,844
He was trying to get a... a visa
736
00:41:10,844 --> 00:41:14,055
for me, Alex, my mom, and my dad.
737
00:41:14,055 --> 00:41:17,851
It was to a point that we thought
maybe we weren't gonna be able to go.
738
00:41:21,855 --> 00:41:25,400
{\an8}They didn't have a Greek passport.
So here's the United States government,
739
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,236
you're saying, well,
you're trying to bring someone from Greece
740
00:41:28,236 --> 00:41:29,905
who doesn't have a Greek passport.
741
00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:31,823
It doesn't work that way.
We can't get them in.
742
00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:37,704
[Giannis]
I had never left my family's side before.
743
00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:40,248
I came here, I was 18.
744
00:41:40,248 --> 00:41:42,292
I had to figure everything out by myself.
745
00:41:44,127 --> 00:41:46,671
After practice, you know, the NBA, you...
746
00:41:46,671 --> 00:41:49,007
you don't...
you don't do things as a team.
747
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:50,217
You know, you kind of, after practice,
748
00:41:50,217 --> 00:41:52,636
everybody has their own thing,
their own families.
749
00:41:52,636 --> 00:41:54,888
Everybody's busy. I was a kid.
750
00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:58,725
I can just remember
coming to my office, you know,
751
00:41:58,725 --> 00:42:01,436
and he'd always ask, like,
"How long do you think it will be?"
752
00:42:01,436 --> 00:42:04,064
You know, "When can this happen?
How soon can they get here?"
753
00:42:06,107 --> 00:42:08,818
[Giannis] Every week,
I used to go knock on the office.
754
00:42:08,818 --> 00:42:10,570
It's like, "Oh, here he comes again."
755
00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:12,864
"What's going on? Where is my family?"
756
00:42:12,864 --> 00:42:14,783
Two days later, "Where is my family?
757
00:42:14,783 --> 00:42:18,286
Guys, I'm gonna knock on this door
every day till my family shows up.
758
00:42:19,955 --> 00:42:23,959
I respect everything you've done for me
and the way you guys have treated me,
759
00:42:23,959 --> 00:42:26,503
but I do this for my family.
760
00:42:26,503 --> 00:42:28,421
I don't do this for myself.
761
00:42:28,421 --> 00:42:31,633
If I cannot help my family,
I don't want to play basketball.
762
00:42:31,633 --> 00:42:33,510
I'm... I'm done."
763
00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:35,887
He called me, he said,
"If you don't come, I'm coming back."
764
00:42:35,887 --> 00:42:37,597
I said, "Don't come back. We're coming.
765
00:42:37,597 --> 00:42:38,974
We are processing the visa."
766
00:42:38,974 --> 00:42:42,936
After the first two times that Giannis'...
Giannis' family was denied a visa,
767
00:42:42,936 --> 00:42:45,355
he said, "If they don't get a visa
on this last try
768
00:42:45,355 --> 00:42:48,650
and it's ten years, forget the NBA.
I'm going back home."
769
00:42:48,650 --> 00:42:50,193
We tried to apply for a third time.
770
00:42:50,193 --> 00:42:54,364
Everybody combined our powers
to be a legit application.
771
00:42:54,364 --> 00:42:56,950
Senator Kohl was the owner
of the Bucks at the time,
772
00:42:56,950 --> 00:43:00,954
and Senator Kohl called
Secretary John Kerry, and Senator Kerry,
773
00:43:00,954 --> 00:43:05,166
as a favor to Senator Kohl,
called the powers that be to make sure
774
00:43:05,166 --> 00:43:07,836
that Giannis' family
had an opportunity get the visa.
775
00:43:07,836 --> 00:43:10,922
I remember going to the embassy,
776
00:43:10,922 --> 00:43:13,466
I think the last appointment
with my parents,
777
00:43:13,466 --> 00:43:16,928
and talking to the person,
778
00:43:16,928 --> 00:43:18,596
we got a visa,
779
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:21,558
and we just went back home
and was just happy, dancing.
780
00:43:21,558 --> 00:43:23,727
And we went straight to the US.
781
00:43:27,981 --> 00:43:30,608
{\an8}I'm like this.
I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting.
782
00:43:31,860 --> 00:43:37,324
And all of a sudden
I see this tall, lanky kid coming out.
783
00:43:37,324 --> 00:43:40,618
I'm like, "Holy smoke, this is Kostas."
784
00:43:42,704 --> 00:43:46,041
He got big. I'm like, "Yo."
785
00:43:46,041 --> 00:43:49,544
Then I see Alex. And Alex was chubby.
786
00:43:49,544 --> 00:43:51,171
I was like, "What have you been eating?
787
00:43:51,171 --> 00:43:54,549
Now you've been eating real well
with all the money I'm sending back home."
788
00:43:54,549 --> 00:43:59,346
And then I saw my parents.
They were so happy.
789
00:44:00,597 --> 00:44:02,140
He said, "I came with limousine."
790
00:44:02,140 --> 00:44:05,185
And he took us in the limousine
to supermarket.
791
00:44:05,185 --> 00:44:07,020
Then he posted it in Instagram,
792
00:44:07,020 --> 00:44:09,105
posted it in Facebook and said,
793
00:44:09,773 --> 00:44:13,735
"Dad and Mom, welcome to America."
[laughs]
794
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,364
[Alex] It was just a culture shock.
795
00:44:17,364 --> 00:44:19,908
{\an8}I had never been to any place
that was like this.
796
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:22,994
And I didn't even think
places like this existed.
797
00:44:23,828 --> 00:44:25,580
It felt like the...
798
00:44:27,165 --> 00:44:28,583
like the Promised Land.
799
00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:32,253
It's the first place that accepted us
and, uh, the first city
800
00:44:32,253 --> 00:44:33,880
that was able to build something.
801
00:44:34,464 --> 00:44:37,509
You can get... you can grab a Gatorade,
you can drink Gatorade from here.
802
00:44:37,509 --> 00:44:39,761
We've got some snacks over there.
803
00:44:39,761 --> 00:44:41,179
Some fruits.
804
00:44:41,846 --> 00:44:44,182
The fridge. Yeah.
805
00:44:44,182 --> 00:44:45,934
Some good stuff.
806
00:44:45,934 --> 00:44:50,355
And here I usually get taped
807
00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:54,901
or, uh, stretch a little bit,
you know, with my trainers.
808
00:44:55,985 --> 00:44:57,779
So you want to hold the ball?
809
00:44:58,530 --> 00:45:01,032
It's got a Milwaukee Bucks.
810
00:45:05,537 --> 00:45:08,331
[Oppenheimer] There's no doubt
who the head of that household was,
811
00:45:08,331 --> 00:45:09,541
was his father.
812
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:12,293
But to see the role change,
813
00:45:12,293 --> 00:45:15,004
and now, he's sort of showing them around,
814
00:45:15,004 --> 00:45:19,801
and he's helping them
communicate with people
815
00:45:19,801 --> 00:45:22,303
in somewhat kind of a role reversal,
816
00:45:22,303 --> 00:45:24,764
but in the most respectful of ways.
817
00:45:26,307 --> 00:45:27,308
Oh.
818
00:45:28,810 --> 00:45:32,564
Maybe in 50 years, 20 years,
maybe my number is up there.
819
00:45:34,399 --> 00:45:38,319
We never know what can happen,
but I wish my number is up there,
820
00:45:38,319 --> 00:45:41,322
you know, to be next to
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
821
00:45:41,322 --> 00:45:43,741
and the other guys, Oscar Robertson.
822
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:49,164
I'm very happy really, you know,
I can't wait now to finish this interview,
823
00:45:49,164 --> 00:45:53,251
take a shower and go... just go home,
play with my brothers,
824
00:45:53,251 --> 00:45:54,794
and get ready for the game.
825
00:45:54,794 --> 00:45:58,381
You know, gonna be the first time
they're gonna see me in an NBA game.
826
00:45:58,381 --> 00:46:02,093
And they're very excited.
And I'm just very happy.
827
00:46:04,512 --> 00:46:07,765
{\an8}We played New York, it was the first time
they was able to attend the game.
828
00:46:08,433 --> 00:46:12,187
[announcer] Giannis Antetokounmpo,
a very special night for him.
829
00:46:12,187 --> 00:46:15,940
What a treat for the family.
And Giannis told me
830
00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:18,526
get ready when I come off
the bench tonight.
831
00:46:19,986 --> 00:46:22,947
I said, "Let me see how this boy
is going to play. Let me see."
832
00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:25,658
[dramatic music playing]
833
00:46:29,454 --> 00:46:30,914
Then when he dunked...
834
00:46:30,914 --> 00:46:33,583
[announcer] Picked up by Antetokounmpo,
off to Brandon Knight
835
00:46:33,583 --> 00:46:37,003
drives on Hardaway. Layup, no good.
Clocked in, the Alphabet.
836
00:46:37,003 --> 00:46:38,755
Ah!
837
00:46:38,755 --> 00:46:39,839
[announcer] How about that?
838
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,926
Oh, Giannis.
839
00:46:43,801 --> 00:46:45,470
[Giannis] I had my career high.
840
00:46:46,638 --> 00:46:51,059
I had the best game of the season,
uh, because I felt good. I was happy.
841
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,271
[Panou] That was the point
that the dream came true.
842
00:46:56,731 --> 00:46:57,857
It wasn't the draft day,
843
00:46:57,857 --> 00:46:59,442
{\an8}it wasn't the signing of contract,
844
00:46:59,442 --> 00:47:00,693
{\an8}it was we are all together
845
00:47:00,693 --> 00:47:02,070
{\an8}living the dream.
846
00:47:02,654 --> 00:47:04,822
[interviewer] How does it make you guys
feel now? Like, you know,
847
00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:07,408
he checks into the game,
he comes in and the place going crazy,
848
00:47:07,408 --> 00:47:10,161
you know, for your son? Like, how does
it... just talk about that feeling.
849
00:47:10,161 --> 00:47:11,663
It's amazing. It's amazing, really.
850
00:47:11,663 --> 00:47:13,164
- It's so great.
- It's great.
851
00:47:13,164 --> 00:47:14,749
It's great. It's amazing.
852
00:47:14,749 --> 00:47:17,001
It's amazing, yes.
We are really happy about that.
853
00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:18,169
We are really happy.
854
00:47:20,296 --> 00:47:21,381
Yes.
855
00:47:21,381 --> 00:47:24,259
He's a first-round pick of the NBA Draft,
856
00:47:24,259 --> 00:47:28,012
so he's making considerable money
at that, just as that pick.
857
00:47:28,012 --> 00:47:32,350
And at that time, he was living in
a two-bedroom condominium.
858
00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:36,437
That was great for a young player
like that, that fit him,
859
00:47:36,437 --> 00:47:39,816
but soon after, everybody comes,
860
00:47:39,816 --> 00:47:43,570
his mother, his father, and both brothers.
861
00:47:43,570 --> 00:47:44,696
They didn't move.
862
00:47:44,696 --> 00:47:45,822
They stayed there.
863
00:47:45,822 --> 00:47:48,950
The mom and dad in a bedroom,
the two little brothers in a bedroom.
864
00:47:48,950 --> 00:47:51,536
I think Giannis was like, in like,
this little dining room area,
865
00:47:51,536 --> 00:47:53,037
kind of was his bedroom.
866
00:47:53,830 --> 00:47:56,583
It just tells you, like, who they are,
867
00:47:56,583 --> 00:47:58,626
really just how much they need each other.
868
00:47:58,626 --> 00:48:01,879
[indistinct chatter]
869
00:48:03,464 --> 00:48:06,301
Home for me means wherever my family is.
870
00:48:08,553 --> 00:48:10,888
And it's been like that
since when we were kids.
871
00:48:12,015 --> 00:48:13,516
[Alex] The homes that we grew up in,
872
00:48:14,183 --> 00:48:16,060
we had one underground,
873
00:48:16,060 --> 00:48:19,397
which was a big thing for immigrants
just because the rent was cheaper.
874
00:48:19,397 --> 00:48:21,774
We had houses that my parents
didn't have a room.
875
00:48:22,775 --> 00:48:24,694
[Giannis] The kids slept in the back
876
00:48:24,694 --> 00:48:27,238
and my mom and dad slept in the...
in the living room.
877
00:48:27,238 --> 00:48:30,867
[Alex] I don't think it was anything
that anybody wanna stay in, but to me,
878
00:48:30,867 --> 00:48:32,201
it was like a palace.
879
00:48:32,201 --> 00:48:35,705
If you grow up that way,
you don't understand the difference.
880
00:48:35,705 --> 00:48:37,749
You think that's how it's supposed to be.
881
00:48:37,749 --> 00:48:40,501
We're living from day-to-day,
not month-to-month.
882
00:48:41,085 --> 00:48:44,922
I remember living in eight
or nine homes by eight years old.
883
00:48:53,556 --> 00:48:54,932
[Giannis] There was one time
884
00:48:55,516 --> 00:48:57,935
I tried to get in the house.
885
00:48:57,935 --> 00:49:01,773
I couldn't get into the house,
and my dad was like, "What's going on?
886
00:49:01,773 --> 00:49:02,982
Like the key doesn't fit."
887
00:49:03,941 --> 00:49:06,194
The landlord, uh, changed the lock.
888
00:49:08,279 --> 00:49:09,947
[Thanasis] If somebody's evicting you,
889
00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:13,618
it can't take me a week to move my things.
You move quick.
890
00:49:15,161 --> 00:49:17,955
If they ask us to leave, if you don't
leave, they'll call police for you.
891
00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:20,333
[Alex] We had to take our belongings.
892
00:49:21,542 --> 00:49:26,214
We obviously didn't have the money
to have like a big fancy like U-Haul truck
893
00:49:26,214 --> 00:49:27,590
or like a moving company, or something.
894
00:49:28,716 --> 00:49:30,885
We have no way to transport this fridge.
895
00:49:32,595 --> 00:49:33,763
I was young. I told my dad,
896
00:49:33,763 --> 00:49:35,348
"Maybe we can put it on a skateboard."
897
00:49:36,391 --> 00:49:38,393
We put the fridge on the skateboard
898
00:49:40,019 --> 00:49:43,314
and we were just kind of like
pushing the fridge down the block.
899
00:49:44,273 --> 00:49:47,694
We did it at like 12:00 a.m.,
so nobody could see us.
900
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:52,240
[Giannis] At the end of the day,
we had one another.
901
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,326
We never had toys and teddy bears,
902
00:49:56,160 --> 00:50:00,248
and all that, uh,
but we always had one another.
903
00:50:00,873 --> 00:50:02,875
[indistinct chatter]
904
00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:04,877
[Hammond] Once they arrived...
905
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,547
he just became happier.
906
00:50:07,547 --> 00:50:11,342
[beatboxing]
907
00:50:11,342 --> 00:50:14,846
[Oppenheimer] Now, he felt like
he could really concentrate
908
00:50:14,846 --> 00:50:17,014
on what he was here to do
909
00:50:17,014 --> 00:50:18,808
and where he wanted his career to go.
910
00:50:18,808 --> 00:50:20,351
[reporter]
I can tell it means something to you.
911
00:50:20,351 --> 00:50:21,853
I mean, you... all of a sudden
your eyes light up.
912
00:50:21,853 --> 00:50:24,355
Yeah. It means I want the MVP.
913
00:50:24,355 --> 00:50:26,858
- [laughter]
- [Giannis] I want the MVP. Yeah.
914
00:50:32,613 --> 00:50:35,825
Very quickly his body started changing,
915
00:50:35,825 --> 00:50:39,912
and when it was complete,
it was 50 pounds of muscle.
916
00:50:40,413 --> 00:50:42,206
[announcer] ...for the Chicago Bulls...
917
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:44,375
[Paschke] In an early playoff situation,
918
00:50:44,375 --> 00:50:47,128
Mike Dunleavy Jr. popped him
on one end of the court.
919
00:50:47,128 --> 00:50:48,463
Nobody saw it.
920
00:50:48,463 --> 00:50:51,799
Mike ran down the court,
and Giannis was chasing him.
921
00:50:51,799 --> 00:50:53,551
- [announcer 1] Dunleavy. Splash.
- [whistle blows]
922
00:50:53,551 --> 00:50:54,969
[announcer 2]
You knew it was coming.
923
00:50:54,969 --> 00:50:56,804
That fire was etched in my brain.
924
00:50:56,804 --> 00:50:58,639
- [announcer 1] Let's see.
- [announcer 2] Watch Giannis,
925
00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:00,641
you can tell this is on purpose.
926
00:51:00,641 --> 00:51:03,102
I got a feeling the Greek Freak
will be thrown out of this one.
927
00:51:03,102 --> 00:51:04,145
[announcer 1] Yeah.
928
00:51:04,145 --> 00:51:07,231
{\an8}[Saratsis] There was a kid who had a sign
that was the Greek Freak.
929
00:51:07,231 --> 00:51:09,275
{\an8}At first, we weren't comfortable with it.
930
00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:11,819
{\an8}Being called a freak
is not normally a nice thing.
931
00:51:11,819 --> 00:51:14,489
And then somehow, some way,
932
00:51:14,489 --> 00:51:16,157
he embraced it.
933
00:51:16,157 --> 00:51:18,075
[announcer 1] There's the Greek Freak.
934
00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:19,744
[announcer 2]
Greek Freak been lifting weights, baby.
935
00:51:19,744 --> 00:51:21,662
Understand it's about helping each other.
936
00:51:21,662 --> 00:51:24,749
[Paschke] Jason Kidd became the coach
in Giannis' second season.
937
00:51:25,374 --> 00:51:27,919
[Giannis] I knew he was one of the best
point guards to ever play the game.
938
00:51:27,919 --> 00:51:29,212
[PA announcer] Jason Kidd.
939
00:51:29,212 --> 00:51:32,423
I'm dealing with a guy
that know what greatness is.
940
00:51:32,423 --> 00:51:33,925
[Kidd] You the low man.
941
00:51:33,925 --> 00:51:35,218
You gotta stay there.
942
00:51:35,218 --> 00:51:40,765
Giannis gets a rebound and he brings it
and then he makes a pass.
943
00:51:40,765 --> 00:51:43,684
And that's where the light bulb
went off in my head.
944
00:51:43,684 --> 00:51:45,436
I think he can be a point guard.
945
00:51:45,436 --> 00:51:47,897
[announcer] Wow.
What a play by the Alphabet.
946
00:51:48,356 --> 00:51:52,527
[woman] You don't think of point guards
as being seven-feet tall.
947
00:51:53,736 --> 00:51:58,241
{\an8}Giannis coined what point-forward
is in the modern NBA.
948
00:51:58,241 --> 00:51:59,283
Action.
949
00:51:59,283 --> 00:52:01,244
This year, I'm going to fly.
950
00:52:04,038 --> 00:52:06,999
[announcer]
Oh! Greek Freak flush!
951
00:52:06,999 --> 00:52:10,837
{\an8}He is usually referred to as Giannis
or the Greek Freak.
952
00:52:11,379 --> 00:52:14,757
And he's doing things on a basketball
court that people have never seen before.
953
00:52:14,757 --> 00:52:16,384
[man] Let's go!
954
00:52:16,384 --> 00:52:18,636
[reporter] The kid who once had to
share sneakers with his brother,
955
00:52:18,636 --> 00:52:21,681
will soon have his own
signature shoe from Nike,
956
00:52:21,681 --> 00:52:24,392
{\an8}the first foreign-born player
to receive that tribute.
957
00:52:24,392 --> 00:52:25,601
{\an8}Nike Headquarters.
958
00:52:25,601 --> 00:52:27,436
{\an8}I got my little car over here.
959
00:52:27,436 --> 00:52:30,523
{\an8}l love, you know, Giannis,
you know, from Milwaukee.
960
00:52:30,523 --> 00:52:32,692
{\an8}I can't really pronounce his last name,
but I love his game.
961
00:52:33,359 --> 00:52:34,610
[announcer] Look out, baby.
962
00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:38,781
Being in the zone, it might be
one of the best feelings you can have.
963
00:52:39,365 --> 00:52:41,242
Things just happen automatically.
964
00:52:41,242 --> 00:52:43,494
[announcer] And the one-handed jam.
965
00:52:43,494 --> 00:52:45,413
Every decision is the right decision.
966
00:52:45,413 --> 00:52:47,456
- [announcer 1] Watch out.
- [announcer 2] Antetokounmpo on the drive.
967
00:52:47,456 --> 00:52:49,166
[announcer 3] Behind the back pass.
968
00:52:49,166 --> 00:52:51,294
It's like a orchestra.
969
00:52:51,294 --> 00:52:53,212
[announcer] That's... Oh, my goodness.
970
00:52:53,212 --> 00:52:54,255
That's being in the zone.
971
00:52:54,839 --> 00:52:56,674
[announcer 1]
Antetokounmpo has got to take a shot.
972
00:52:56,674 --> 00:52:59,010
Two seconds, step back jumper.
973
00:52:59,010 --> 00:53:00,386
- Got it!
- [announcer 2] Got it!
974
00:53:00,386 --> 00:53:03,389
[announcer 1]
Giannis Antetokounmpo at the buzzer!
975
00:53:07,852 --> 00:53:10,605
[man] Both parents
had an enormous amount of pride
976
00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:13,900
{\an8}in terms of the work ethic
that they instilled in him.
977
00:53:15,401 --> 00:53:20,114
{\an8}[emcee] Selected to play
in his first ever NBA All-Star Game,
978
00:53:20,114 --> 00:53:23,784
{\an8}from the Milwaukee Bucks, the Greek Freak,
979
00:53:23,784 --> 00:53:27,788
{\an8}Giannis Antetokounmpo.
980
00:53:30,625 --> 00:53:33,210
[Smith] I knew there was
something else behind it.
981
00:53:34,795 --> 00:53:38,507
Most guys,
they don't transform the way he did,
982
00:53:38,507 --> 00:53:41,886
body, mind, and game all at the same time.
983
00:53:41,886 --> 00:53:43,763
[announcer] Knowing exactly where
Klay was, and oh, my goodness,
984
00:53:43,763 --> 00:53:47,350
this is getting ridiculous out here
with Giannis Antetokounmpo.
985
00:53:47,350 --> 00:53:49,226
[audience exclaims]
986
00:53:51,020 --> 00:53:54,482
And I just couldn't understand why
until I heard his story.
987
00:53:56,275 --> 00:53:58,569
[Saratsis]
It had nothing to do with his talent.
988
00:53:58,569 --> 00:54:01,739
He'll tell you,
"I'm not as talented as Luka." Right?
989
00:54:02,490 --> 00:54:04,951
"The game doesn't come as easy to me
as it does Jokic."
990
00:54:05,868 --> 00:54:09,747
The difference is that he played
with a sense of fear,
991
00:54:09,747 --> 00:54:13,084
he has to do everything
he needs to do to stay
992
00:54:13,084 --> 00:54:14,961
because he was petrified of going back.
993
00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:19,507
[Papadojannis] If you ask Giannis
how he does what he does today,
994
00:54:19,507 --> 00:54:21,884
he'll say that it's a piece of cake.
995
00:54:23,886 --> 00:54:25,888
"When I have been hungry,
996
00:54:25,888 --> 00:54:30,351
when I had no idea
where we will sleep at night,
997
00:54:30,351 --> 00:54:33,145
being an NBA player is nothing."
998
00:54:56,210 --> 00:54:58,212
[laughs]
999
00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:01,132
...noise with your mouth.
1000
00:55:02,508 --> 00:55:04,802
So usually, me and Mariah,
when we're together,
1001
00:55:04,802 --> 00:55:06,762
we don't say a word to one another.
1002
00:55:06,762 --> 00:55:09,640
He still is on his phone,
so I'm watching the show
1003
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,976
I wanna watch
while he's on his phone anyways.
1004
00:55:14,603 --> 00:55:17,314
[Giannis] She... no, don't even say
the show because she's weird.
1005
00:55:17,314 --> 00:55:20,151
- What show am I watching right now?
- [Giannis] Yeah.
1006
00:55:20,151 --> 00:55:21,235
911.
1007
00:55:21,235 --> 00:55:23,487
[Giannis] She wants... she watch like, uh,
1008
00:55:23,487 --> 00:55:27,158
when people get killed and... she enjoys
1009
00:55:27,158 --> 00:55:29,368
watching people suffer,
1010
00:55:29,368 --> 00:55:31,746
and I don't, you know?
1011
00:55:31,746 --> 00:55:35,666
We've never talked about
how we met, you know?
1012
00:55:35,666 --> 00:55:36,959
Nobody knows... really knows.
1013
00:55:36,959 --> 00:55:40,337
And this... it's better to say it this way
than somebody say it for us.
1014
00:55:41,672 --> 00:55:44,675
I met your mother in Vegas. [laughs]
1015
00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:46,010
[chuckles]
1016
00:55:46,010 --> 00:55:49,513
We met in Las Vegas
during NBA Summer League.
1017
00:55:49,513 --> 00:55:52,808
Mariah was working there
at the time, right?
1018
00:55:53,476 --> 00:55:57,354
I said, "Hmm, that's a girl
that I can like make a family with.
1019
00:55:57,354 --> 00:55:59,231
I can see myself with a girl like that."
1020
00:56:00,024 --> 00:56:01,859
And I told one of my close friends.
I was like,
1021
00:56:01,859 --> 00:56:04,528
"Is there any way
you can get her number for me?"
1022
00:56:05,613 --> 00:56:09,825
And, um, he went out to Mariah
1023
00:56:09,825 --> 00:56:13,037
and Mariah was like,
"No. I don't give my numbers out."
1024
00:56:13,037 --> 00:56:15,790
I told him to find me on Instagram
or something like that.
1025
00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:18,125
Yeah. Sometimes you get rejected,
you know?
1026
00:56:18,125 --> 00:56:19,960
You don't get what you want immediately.
1027
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,630
He was trying to play
hard to get after that.
1028
00:56:22,630 --> 00:56:24,465
I wasn't try... I'm very hard to get.
1029
00:56:24,465 --> 00:56:25,800
- Okay, whatever.
- [laughing]
1030
00:56:26,550 --> 00:56:29,512
Fast forward, I was taking a trip
1031
00:56:29,512 --> 00:56:34,475
to Miami with my family, my father, Mom,
my brothers, at the time,
1032
00:56:34,475 --> 00:56:37,061
and I was like, "Do you wanna come?
1033
00:56:37,061 --> 00:56:40,147
You can come with us, join us,
you know, and, uh, you know,
1034
00:56:40,147 --> 00:56:41,774
get to know one another."
1035
00:56:41,774 --> 00:56:44,568
I was really nervous
'cause you just never know what to expect.
1036
00:56:44,568 --> 00:56:47,488
And I get to Miami.
1037
00:56:47,488 --> 00:56:50,116
When I like first walked in,
he's like, "Oh, this is my mom
1038
00:56:50,116 --> 00:56:54,370
and this is my dad." I'm like, "What
in the heck did I just get myself into?"
1039
00:56:54,370 --> 00:56:57,498
- She showed up at the like...
- [Mariah] The first time like we had
1040
00:56:57,498 --> 00:56:59,083
a conversation in person,
1041
00:56:59,083 --> 00:57:02,670
I met his mom, I met his dad, his aunt.
1042
00:57:02,670 --> 00:57:05,631
- [Giannis] Cousins, brothers.
- I met Thanasis and Alex.
1043
00:57:05,631 --> 00:57:07,341
Kostas wasn't there on the trip.
1044
00:57:07,341 --> 00:57:08,843
He had a high school tournament.
1045
00:57:08,843 --> 00:57:11,595
So it was everybody at once
and I was like, "Whoa."
1046
00:57:11,595 --> 00:57:12,805
- [Giannis] My...
- [laughs]
1047
00:57:12,805 --> 00:57:14,765
She had the... you know,
1048
00:57:14,765 --> 00:57:19,103
she stayed in the house with all
my brothers, my friends, my family.
1049
00:57:19,103 --> 00:57:22,356
We watched the All-Star Game on TV.
1050
00:57:22,356 --> 00:57:24,358
- We watched...
- [Mariah] Cooked with his mom.
1051
00:57:24,358 --> 00:57:25,943
Yeah, cooked with my mom and aunt.
1052
00:57:25,943 --> 00:57:30,781
I have never, never brought a girl,
another girl around my parents.
1053
00:57:30,781 --> 00:57:32,283
I never did that.
1054
00:57:33,409 --> 00:57:34,410
My dad was shocked.
1055
00:57:34,410 --> 00:57:37,538
He's like,
"Giannis is bringing a girl around?
1056
00:57:38,330 --> 00:57:39,999
What the hell is going on, you know?"
1057
00:57:39,999 --> 00:57:43,419
I think he went to the room, started
praying and he said, "Thank you, Jesus."
1058
00:57:44,128 --> 00:57:47,214
That was my first interaction of, okay,
this guy is different.
1059
00:57:47,214 --> 00:57:51,969
Like, he's not spending it with friends
or like his entourage.
1060
00:57:51,969 --> 00:57:53,470
He was with his family.
1061
00:57:55,347 --> 00:57:57,391
Hey, guys, say hello to the camera.
1062
00:57:57,892 --> 00:57:59,810
Hello to the camera, Dad. Come on.
1063
00:58:02,479 --> 00:58:03,814
My father was tough.
1064
00:58:04,398 --> 00:58:05,649
My father was tough.
1065
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,735
I called him gangster.
1066
00:58:08,986 --> 00:58:10,154
Stubborn too.
1067
00:58:10,988 --> 00:58:14,325
They're pretty similar
with their stubbornness.
1068
00:58:15,326 --> 00:58:17,912
Their presence...
like you feel their presence.
1069
00:58:18,954 --> 00:58:20,915
When Giannis walks into a room,
you feel his presence.
1070
00:58:20,915 --> 00:58:22,625
When Charles walked into a room,
you felt it.
1071
00:58:24,251 --> 00:58:25,586
[Giannis] Quiet.
1072
00:58:25,586 --> 00:58:27,004
Very respectful.
1073
00:58:28,005 --> 00:58:29,757
Always bowed his head.
1074
00:58:30,633 --> 00:58:33,594
I'm like, "Dad, like it's okay.
You don't need to do that anymore."
1075
00:58:33,594 --> 00:58:35,721
Like... he's like,
"No, no, no, no, no, no."
1076
00:58:37,181 --> 00:58:39,308
[Veronica] Charles was a kind person,
1077
00:58:39,308 --> 00:58:41,518
a loving person, a caring person,
1078
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:43,646
and a humble person.
1079
00:58:45,064 --> 00:58:46,565
He's a very good dad.
1080
00:58:47,942 --> 00:58:49,860
[Giannis] All he cared about was his kids.
1081
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:51,028
Always.
1082
00:58:52,112 --> 00:58:54,073
Always... always about his kids.
1083
00:58:58,118 --> 00:59:01,538
Christmas for us was one of
the happiest, uh, holidays.
1084
00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:07,962
From 24th of December
until 7th of January,
1085
00:59:07,962 --> 00:59:09,964
you sung Christmas carols.
1086
00:59:11,382 --> 00:59:14,385
We have a thing that we call kalanta.
1087
00:59:14,385 --> 00:59:15,803
It's Christmas so nobody goes to school.
1088
00:59:16,845 --> 00:59:18,973
We would always go from house-to-house
1089
00:59:18,973 --> 00:59:20,474
or store-to-store.
1090
00:59:20,474 --> 00:59:23,394
You'd sing Christmas carols in like Greek.
1091
00:59:23,394 --> 00:59:26,188
So there's a triangle.
You know, how you do ting?
1092
00:59:26,188 --> 00:59:28,857
They'll give you some money
and give you a tip and, like "Oh,
1093
00:59:28,857 --> 00:59:29,942
thank you so much."
1094
00:59:29,942 --> 00:59:31,860
And then you would move
to the next store and the next.
1095
00:59:34,530 --> 00:59:37,199
[in Greek]
♪ Good evening, Noblemen ♪
1096
00:59:39,618 --> 00:59:43,664
[both] ♪ If this is your will ♪
1097
00:59:43,664 --> 00:59:48,085
♪ Christ's holy birth ♪
1098
00:59:48,085 --> 00:59:52,339
♪ In the town of Bethlehem ♪
1099
00:59:52,339 --> 00:59:55,551
♪ The Heavens rejoice ♪
1100
00:59:55,551 --> 01:00:00,055
♪ All of nature is happy ♪
1101
01:00:02,599 --> 01:00:05,519
[Giannis in English] We just walked
all the streets of Athens.
1102
01:00:06,603 --> 01:00:09,273
Me and my brothers,
we started at 6:30 a.m.,
1103
01:00:09,273 --> 01:00:14,945
and went all day. We raised like €500.
1104
01:00:14,945 --> 01:00:16,238
That's around $600.
1105
01:00:17,531 --> 01:00:20,659
[Thanasis] My dad never
asked for anything. Never.
1106
01:00:20,659 --> 01:00:22,786
Never. But we all knew what he wanted.
1107
01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:25,289
He wanted a nice TV.
1108
01:00:28,876 --> 01:00:31,503
And then we went
and bought it and everything.
1109
01:00:31,503 --> 01:00:32,880
He was so happy.
1110
01:00:34,381 --> 01:00:36,842
[Giannis] We brought the rest
of the money back home,
1111
01:00:37,843 --> 01:00:40,137
and we gave it to my father.
1112
01:00:40,137 --> 01:00:43,390
Take this money, pay for the rent
so he can buy us one more month.
1113
01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:44,767
And pay for the light bill
1114
01:00:44,767 --> 01:00:46,977
and pay for the water bill
and get some food.
1115
01:00:46,977 --> 01:00:48,812
And then he was like,
"Okay. You know what,"
1116
01:00:48,812 --> 01:00:50,939
he was like, "Guys, I'm going downstairs.
I'll be back."
1117
01:00:50,939 --> 01:00:53,734
And he was like,
"Hey, I got something for you guys."
1118
01:00:53,734 --> 01:00:56,987
And it was the Play... the PlayStation 2
and it was the exclusive version.
1119
01:00:56,987 --> 01:00:58,072
It was silver.
1120
01:00:58,072 --> 01:01:01,533
It was actually like
a limited-edition PlayStation.
1121
01:01:01,533 --> 01:01:03,327
I don't know how he found that.
1122
01:01:03,327 --> 01:01:04,661
He brought it home with two controllers.
1123
01:01:04,661 --> 01:01:06,747
Usually when you get one,
they only give you one controller.
1124
01:01:06,747 --> 01:01:10,542
But he know...
he knew that it's my kids, my sons...
1125
01:01:10,542 --> 01:01:12,669
they go together everywhere,
and he brought two.
1126
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:14,004
And we were going crazy.
1127
01:01:14,004 --> 01:01:17,341
And it was so special that all the kids
in the neighborhood
1128
01:01:17,341 --> 01:01:19,051
come to our house to play.
1129
01:01:20,052 --> 01:01:21,095
I don't know.
1130
01:01:21,095 --> 01:01:22,805
I don't know how my dad found this,
1131
01:01:22,805 --> 01:01:27,601
but I will always, in every chance
that I get, make them feel special.
1132
01:01:27,601 --> 01:01:29,895
And he did. He really did.
1133
01:01:29,895 --> 01:01:33,107
It was one of the happiest days
of my... of my life.
1134
01:01:43,700 --> 01:01:45,285
[Mariah] His mom called me.
1135
01:01:46,537 --> 01:01:48,205
I was driving somewhere...
1136
01:01:50,207 --> 01:01:52,042
and I had to turn around...
1137
01:01:53,168 --> 01:01:56,130
and go get Giannis
from the practice facility.
1138
01:01:58,799 --> 01:02:00,843
[Giannis] I went downstairs.
We were in the car.
1139
01:02:00,843 --> 01:02:02,553
I was like, "What... what's going on?"
1140
01:02:03,137 --> 01:02:04,388
Her hands are shaking.
1141
01:02:05,472 --> 01:02:07,015
She's not looking me in my eyes.
1142
01:02:07,015 --> 01:02:11,395
In my head, I'm like, "Who it is?
Is it my mom or my dad?"
1143
01:02:16,483 --> 01:02:18,235
[Mariah] It was a really tough day.
1144
01:02:20,237 --> 01:02:24,658
Really... really hard experience.
1145
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:32,416
The door in the apartment was open.
1146
01:02:33,250 --> 01:02:37,671
Um... the apartment was open
1147
01:02:37,671 --> 01:02:41,383
and I just heard
my mommy yelling, screaming.
1148
01:02:42,593 --> 01:02:43,969
Saw my dad on the floor.
1149
01:02:45,179 --> 01:02:47,014
I was in Greece and, uh...
1150
01:02:48,599 --> 01:02:50,476
they called me.
1151
01:02:50,476 --> 01:02:53,395
He was crying and...
1152
01:02:53,395 --> 01:02:55,772
"He's heavy." That's what he said.
1153
01:02:56,523 --> 01:02:58,942
That's what exactly he said.
"He's heavy. He's heavy.
1154
01:02:58,942 --> 01:03:00,486
I can't pick him up."
1155
01:03:00,486 --> 01:03:01,778
Paramedics came.
1156
01:03:02,779 --> 01:03:04,531
Kind of revive... tried to revive my dad.
1157
01:03:04,531 --> 01:03:07,618
And then they looked at me and they said,
"There's nothing we can do.
1158
01:03:07,618 --> 01:03:09,536
Uh, there's nothing we can do."
1159
01:03:09,536 --> 01:03:11,413
And they just took him away.
1160
01:03:14,291 --> 01:03:17,794
[Alex] I went back to the house,
and I was confused on what was going on.
1161
01:03:17,794 --> 01:03:21,965
My brain at that... at that...
at that age of like 15, 16 years old
1162
01:03:21,965 --> 01:03:25,135
couldn't understand how somebody
that was just with me,
1163
01:03:25,135 --> 01:03:27,387
he just...
he just dropped me off at school,
1164
01:03:27,387 --> 01:03:29,056
how is he... how is he no longer here?
1165
01:03:30,974 --> 01:03:35,270
[Giannis] Your mom is right there sitting,
and she just lost her best friend.
1166
01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:38,690
They've been together for over 30 years.
1167
01:03:38,690 --> 01:03:41,693
Uh, wherever my dad went, my mom went.
They were always together.
1168
01:03:41,693 --> 01:03:43,403
They never separated themselves.
1169
01:03:44,446 --> 01:03:47,658
[Veronica] When he passed away,
I was so down.
1170
01:03:49,117 --> 01:03:50,827
I feel like I'm alone.
1171
01:03:50,827 --> 01:03:52,329
Even my kids are there,
1172
01:03:52,329 --> 01:03:54,623
even everyone here with me, I'm alone.
1173
01:03:54,623 --> 01:03:55,791
They say, "You are not alone.
1174
01:03:55,791 --> 01:03:57,459
You are not alone.
We are here for you.
1175
01:03:57,459 --> 01:03:58,710
Please Mommy, please.
1176
01:03:58,710 --> 01:04:00,170
Don't give up. Don't give up."
1177
01:04:00,170 --> 01:04:02,839
[dramatic music playing]
1178
01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:05,842
[Kidd] His dad has a heart attack.
1179
01:04:05,842 --> 01:04:08,178
I lost my dad, uh, to a heart attack.
1180
01:04:08,178 --> 01:04:10,556
And just to understand
what he was going through,
1181
01:04:10,556 --> 01:04:13,058
the things that his dad
wouldn't be able to see.
1182
01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:19,022
That night, the whole family comes back
to the practice facility.
1183
01:04:20,607 --> 01:04:22,901
This was his sanctuary. This was his home.
1184
01:04:22,901 --> 01:04:27,447
And so we wanted to be able
to let them cry,
1185
01:04:27,447 --> 01:04:28,991
let them laugh.
1186
01:04:30,242 --> 01:04:33,036
Basketball was a anchor for this family.
1187
01:04:38,292 --> 01:04:42,504
[announcer] The Milwaukee Bucks
are gearing up for the 2017 season,
1188
01:04:42,504 --> 01:04:45,173
and their young star,
he's doing it with a heavy heart.
1189
01:04:45,173 --> 01:04:47,217
[reporter] 54-year-old,
Charles Antetokounmpo,
1190
01:04:47,217 --> 01:04:49,469
suffered a heart attack here in Milwaukee.
1191
01:04:50,512 --> 01:04:52,097
[Marques] We're playing the Blazers.
1192
01:04:52,097 --> 01:04:56,268
{\an8}And, man, that still brings, uh,
chills to me when I think about that.
1193
01:04:56,268 --> 01:04:58,562
[announcer 1]
Here's Giannis all the way to the basket.
1194
01:04:58,562 --> 01:04:59,646
And he scores.
1195
01:04:59,646 --> 01:05:02,107
[announcer 2] Giannis driving
on Harkless. To the rim. Lay it in.
1196
01:05:02,107 --> 01:05:04,234
[announcer 1]
Twenty-one in the first half.
1197
01:05:04,234 --> 01:05:07,029
[Marques] Giannis makes all
the great plays down the stretch.
1198
01:05:07,029 --> 01:05:08,572
Great blocks, great scores.
1199
01:05:08,572 --> 01:05:10,324
Everything to seal the deal.
1200
01:05:10,949 --> 01:05:12,034
[announcer 1] Giannis.
1201
01:05:13,327 --> 01:05:15,454
Yes. And one!
1202
01:05:15,996 --> 01:05:17,664
[announcer 2] He is spectacular.
1203
01:05:17,664 --> 01:05:19,416
- [announcer 1] Yes!
- [announcer 3] Oh, yeah.
1204
01:05:19,416 --> 01:05:20,834
[announcer 1] Yes! He rolls it around.
1205
01:05:20,834 --> 01:05:22,336
That long stride.
1206
01:05:24,463 --> 01:05:26,214
Giannis from Brogdon.
1207
01:05:26,214 --> 01:05:29,760
Giannis Antetokounmpo has 44.
1208
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,429
Heart, resolve, grit, and the mean mug.
1209
01:05:32,429 --> 01:05:36,433
We haven't seen anything like this
for a long time around here.
1210
01:05:37,434 --> 01:05:38,685
[reporter]
Is that tonight's game ball in there?
1211
01:05:38,685 --> 01:05:40,187
My teammates gave it to me, yes.
1212
01:05:40,187 --> 01:05:41,980
My team... my teammates gave it to me.
1213
01:05:41,980 --> 01:05:43,607
They told me to, uh, keep the ball.
1214
01:05:43,607 --> 01:05:46,860
He got the game ball and he dedicated
the game ball to his daddy.
1215
01:05:49,821 --> 01:05:50,822
[Giannis] It's special.
1216
01:05:50,822 --> 01:05:53,033
I feel that motivates me
on a daily basis.
1217
01:05:53,033 --> 01:05:55,869
Uh, just playing... you know,
playing hard, play for my family,
1218
01:05:55,869 --> 01:05:57,954
and, uh, especially play for my dad.
1219
01:05:57,954 --> 01:06:01,875
Hopefully, he's seeing us from above
and, uh, he's proud of us.
1220
01:06:02,959 --> 01:06:04,878
[Paschke] I knew it was hurting him,
1221
01:06:04,878 --> 01:06:09,007
but Charles got to see
what Giannis had become,
1222
01:06:10,634 --> 01:06:13,845
and there's great solace in that.
1223
01:06:20,519 --> 01:06:25,107
[Alex] My father's passing
uplifted Giannis' career.
1224
01:06:27,818 --> 01:06:29,277
When something like that happens,
1225
01:06:29,277 --> 01:06:32,072
it just kind of change the way
you view things.
1226
01:06:33,365 --> 01:06:38,495
You start to see that we all come from
one place and we're gonna end up...
1227
01:06:38,495 --> 01:06:39,579
in the same place.
1228
01:06:42,791 --> 01:06:45,794
So there's no point of you being scared.
1229
01:06:46,795 --> 01:06:49,506
And I felt like Giannis
installed that mentality,
1230
01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:51,758
and he stopped being scared of anything.
1231
01:06:56,054 --> 01:06:57,472
You don't feel fear.
1232
01:06:58,515 --> 01:07:00,267
Fear does not exist.
1233
01:07:04,438 --> 01:07:05,689
Fear for what?
1234
01:07:05,689 --> 01:07:07,858
Fear of losing?
1235
01:07:08,734 --> 01:07:10,902
Fear of what? Not being good enough?
1236
01:07:12,446 --> 01:07:16,658
The difference between a coward
and a hero is how to navigate fear.
1237
01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:19,244
We're all gonna die one day.
1238
01:07:20,162 --> 01:07:24,166
We are a dash.
It starts from 1994 and ends somewhere.
1239
01:07:25,167 --> 01:07:27,711
Do what you want to do,
and go conquer the world.
1240
01:07:29,004 --> 01:07:30,964
{\an8}[announcer 1]
That's why they call him the Freak.
1241
01:07:30,964 --> 01:07:33,133
{\an8}[announcer 2] He is so special.
1242
01:07:33,133 --> 01:07:34,801
[announcer 3] Oh, express yourself.
1243
01:07:34,801 --> 01:07:36,136
Giannis.
1244
01:07:37,053 --> 01:07:39,973
{\an8}There are certain guys
who can get really good numbers,
1245
01:07:40,724 --> 01:07:43,477
but it's not always applicable
to the team success.
1246
01:07:43,477 --> 01:07:44,978
He married the two.
1247
01:07:44,978 --> 01:07:47,939
[announcer] A monster blocked shot.
Ahead for Middleton.
1248
01:07:49,316 --> 01:07:52,611
He became that problem
for every opposing team.
1249
01:07:53,403 --> 01:07:55,614
Okay, the Bucks are coming to town.
1250
01:07:55,614 --> 01:07:57,407
What's job one?
1251
01:07:57,407 --> 01:07:59,284
Well, it's Giannis. It's the Freak.
1252
01:07:59,284 --> 01:08:02,287
[announcer] Giannis finds Bledsoe,
one of the great plays this season.
1253
01:08:03,121 --> 01:08:05,957
He's just going by one name, basically.
1254
01:08:05,957 --> 01:08:07,501
- [announcer 1] Giannis.
- [announcer 2] Giannis.
1255
01:08:07,501 --> 01:08:09,503
- [announcer 3] Giannis.
- [announcer 2] Here he comes.
1256
01:08:09,503 --> 01:08:11,004
Giannis Antetokounmpo.
1257
01:08:11,004 --> 01:08:13,632
[announcer 4]
You don't see that every day in the NBA.
1258
01:08:13,632 --> 01:08:16,051
[Nehm] That was the year
where it was like,
1259
01:08:16,051 --> 01:08:19,054
"Okay, this guy could potentially
be one of the all-time greats."
1260
01:08:21,223 --> 01:08:23,725
[announcer 1] Oh, my goodness. Wow.
1261
01:08:23,725 --> 01:08:25,602
[announcer 2] Giannis! Whoo!
1262
01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:28,480
[crowd] MVP! MVP!
1263
01:08:28,480 --> 01:08:32,025
MVP! MVP! MVP!
1264
01:08:32,025 --> 01:08:35,195
[man]
The 2019 Most Valuable Player goes to...
1265
01:08:36,154 --> 01:08:37,697
Giannis Antetokounmpo.
1266
01:08:37,697 --> 01:08:40,784
[applause]
1267
01:08:59,177 --> 01:09:03,265
[Alex] He tried to ask us not to cry,
because he knew that if we got emotional,
1268
01:09:03,265 --> 01:09:04,766
he was gonna get emotional.
1269
01:09:04,766 --> 01:09:07,185
[Giannis] I wanna thank...
thank the front office,
1270
01:09:07,185 --> 01:09:10,188
the ownership for like, you know,
believing in me...
1271
01:09:10,897 --> 01:09:13,441
[cheers and applause]
1272
01:09:13,441 --> 01:09:16,236
...when I was 18 years old back in Greece.
1273
01:09:18,154 --> 01:09:19,739
I wanna thank the city of Milwaukee.
1274
01:09:19,739 --> 01:09:23,159
I wanna thank, uh, my country,
Greece and, uh, Nigeria
1275
01:09:23,159 --> 01:09:25,287
for always supporting me, you know?
1276
01:09:25,287 --> 01:09:26,997
Uh, I wanna thank my dad.
1277
01:09:26,997 --> 01:09:30,417
Uh, obviously, you know,
my dad is not here with me,
1278
01:09:30,417 --> 01:09:35,463
- but, uh... you know...
- [applause]
1279
01:09:35,463 --> 01:09:39,217
I wanna thank my amazing, uh, mom.
1280
01:09:39,217 --> 01:09:40,844
She always saw the future in us.
1281
01:09:40,844 --> 01:09:43,805
She always believed in us.
She was always there for us.
1282
01:09:43,805 --> 01:09:45,807
She's the foundation of this family.
1283
01:09:45,807 --> 01:09:47,976
You're my... you're my true hero.
1284
01:09:47,976 --> 01:09:49,436
You're my true hero.
1285
01:09:49,436 --> 01:09:51,521
[cheers and applause]
1286
01:09:53,565 --> 01:09:57,027
The first time I saw him really show
his emotions in front of people
1287
01:09:57,027 --> 01:09:58,403
was on that stage.
1288
01:10:02,198 --> 01:10:04,701
Yeah, I said... I said I'm not...
1289
01:10:04,701 --> 01:10:08,121
I'm not gonna cry,
and the first thing I did was cry.
1290
01:10:08,121 --> 01:10:09,915
That's crazy.
1291
01:10:09,915 --> 01:10:14,044
He realized being vulnerable
and letting people see who you really are
1292
01:10:14,044 --> 01:10:16,630
and letting people see
a different side of you is okay.
1293
01:10:16,630 --> 01:10:17,589
It's safe.
1294
01:10:17,589 --> 01:10:18,757
It feels good.
1295
01:10:19,758 --> 01:10:22,177
- It's difficult.
- [man] Congratulations, Giannis.
1296
01:10:24,971 --> 01:10:27,223
That's the day I found out
I was pregnant with Liam.
1297
01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,351
I had written him a card that said,
1298
01:10:29,351 --> 01:10:31,227
"MVP or not, you're gonna be a dad."
1299
01:10:31,227 --> 01:10:32,437
I'm like, "No way."
1300
01:10:33,271 --> 01:10:36,566
She's like, "Yeah."
And then I just like started just crying.
1301
01:10:36,566 --> 01:10:40,570
And then I'm like, "Oh,
my dad's not gonna be here to see this."
1302
01:10:40,570 --> 01:10:42,113
Where's my baby?
1303
01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:44,366
Where's my baby?
1304
01:10:44,366 --> 01:10:45,867
Oh, baby.
1305
01:10:45,867 --> 01:10:48,078
I'm here, baby. Who are these strangers?
1306
01:10:48,078 --> 01:10:50,538
Who are these strangers?
My baby, come here.
1307
01:10:50,538 --> 01:10:53,500
- [Mariah] You want a popsicle, Liam?
- Who are these strangers, hmm?
1308
01:10:54,417 --> 01:10:57,212
His father is the reason
he wanted to become a father.
1309
01:10:57,212 --> 01:10:58,797
It was so important to him.
1310
01:10:59,464 --> 01:11:00,757
[Giannis] He never had money.
1311
01:11:00,757 --> 01:11:03,677
All he had was love
and the lessons he gave us.
1312
01:11:03,677 --> 01:11:08,765
I hope I can be as good
as a father as my dad was to me.
1313
01:11:10,016 --> 01:11:11,851
[in Greek]
Do you want ice cream?
1314
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:14,980
Do you want ice cream? No?
1315
01:11:14,980 --> 01:11:18,692
Do you want the dinosaur?
1316
01:11:18,692 --> 01:11:21,319
[growls]
1317
01:11:22,195 --> 01:11:25,240
When our boys were born,
it really grounded him
1318
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,909
and like made him more balanced,
1319
01:11:27,909 --> 01:11:30,495
you know, because he came home
1320
01:11:30,495 --> 01:11:33,540
to this little baby
who loved him unconditionally,
1321
01:11:33,540 --> 01:11:35,417
who has no idea who he is.
1322
01:11:36,376 --> 01:11:38,461
Do you wanna play basketball?
1323
01:11:38,461 --> 01:11:39,546
No?
1324
01:11:41,339 --> 01:11:44,843
Hey, Liam, do you wanna play basketball
when you grow up?
1325
01:11:45,802 --> 01:11:47,595
Do you wanna play basketball?
1326
01:11:48,596 --> 01:11:49,597
Okay.
1327
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:54,227
My kids... I guess my kids
not will be basketball players, it's okay.
1328
01:11:54,894 --> 01:11:56,438
You wanna be an engineer?
1329
01:11:57,105 --> 01:11:58,982
Maybe a lawyer? What you wanna be?
1330
01:12:00,025 --> 01:12:01,693
They don't know the big name.
1331
01:12:01,693 --> 01:12:03,361
They know him as their dad.
1332
01:12:03,361 --> 01:12:06,239
- [screams]
- [laughs]
1333
01:12:06,239 --> 01:12:12,037
The part that I love of being a father
is that I know they need me.
1334
01:12:12,912 --> 01:12:13,997
I love that feeling.
1335
01:12:13,997 --> 01:12:16,791
[Liam laughs]
1336
01:12:16,791 --> 01:12:18,168
[Giannis] Boo!
1337
01:12:18,168 --> 01:12:20,462
[Mariah] I'm like,
"Giannis, stop buying them toys.
1338
01:12:20,462 --> 01:12:21,713
There's too many."
1339
01:12:21,713 --> 01:12:23,673
And he's like,
"No, I enjoy buying them toys
1340
01:12:23,673 --> 01:12:26,760
because I didn't have a single toy
when I was a kid."
1341
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,804
And it just like broke my heart,
but at the same time,
1342
01:12:29,804 --> 01:12:35,769
it makes sense like why he works so hard
to give our kids whatever they want.
1343
01:12:35,769 --> 01:12:38,980
- [Giannis screams]
- [laughter]
1344
01:12:38,980 --> 01:12:42,400
- [Giannis] You got me. Okay.
- [laughter]
1345
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:44,611
No. No.
1346
01:12:44,611 --> 01:12:46,571
Go get mama. Get mama.
1347
01:12:46,571 --> 01:12:47,697
[laughter]
1348
01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:50,492
[Mariah] Before Liam was born,
we went to a birthing class
1349
01:12:50,492 --> 01:12:52,577
and the teacher goes,
"Any other questions?"
1350
01:12:52,577 --> 01:12:54,913
And he's like,
"Yeah. How do you change a diaper?"
1351
01:12:54,913 --> 01:12:56,372
I was, like, "Oh, jeez."
1352
01:12:56,372 --> 01:12:57,874
I said, "I'm in trouble."
1353
01:12:57,874 --> 01:13:00,376
[speaking Greek]
1354
01:13:03,505 --> 01:13:06,382
- Come on. Go get your...
- [Mariah] Does he need to change diaper?
1355
01:13:06,382 --> 01:13:08,426
- What? You too?
- [Mariah] Does he?
1356
01:13:10,345 --> 01:13:11,888
Yeah.
1357
01:13:11,888 --> 01:13:13,556
- Give me a diaper.
- Matt.
1358
01:13:13,556 --> 01:13:15,350
Matt, can you give him a diaper please?
1359
01:13:15,350 --> 01:13:17,393
He's like, "Daddy, poo-poos."
1360
01:13:18,186 --> 01:13:20,772
Like, "Poo-poos? It's not pee-pee?"
1361
01:13:20,772 --> 01:13:22,941
He said, "No. Poo-poos."
"Okay. Go to mama."
1362
01:13:22,941 --> 01:13:25,693
"Uh-uh. Daddy."
You know, like, "I want you."
1363
01:13:25,693 --> 01:13:27,821
[laughs] So like, man, I just...
1364
01:13:27,821 --> 01:13:30,156
I just scored 50 yesterday,
1365
01:13:30,156 --> 01:13:32,200
and now I'm changing diapers?
1366
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:34,119
{\an8}♪ Yeah ♪
1367
01:13:34,119 --> 01:13:36,663
{\an8}♪ My heart will always be with my home ♪
1368
01:13:36,663 --> 01:13:37,914
[reporter] Exciting news.
1369
01:13:37,914 --> 01:13:41,876
Giannis' older brother has agreed
to a two-year contract with the Bucks.
1370
01:13:41,876 --> 01:13:46,589
Thanasis last played in Europe
but has been in the NBA before.
1371
01:13:46,589 --> 01:13:47,715
[announcer] Tha-nasty.
1372
01:13:48,675 --> 01:13:52,887
{\an8}Giannis' older brother, Thanasis,
joins the team the next season.
1373
01:13:52,887 --> 01:13:54,264
Hey, man, feels great.
1374
01:13:54,264 --> 01:13:56,766
Feels great having this guy out here.
1375
01:13:56,766 --> 01:13:59,394
[Andrews] To be able to have
your best friend there,
1376
01:13:59,394 --> 01:14:00,562
Giannis was happy.
1377
01:14:01,396 --> 01:14:03,273
[announcer]
No one else on the planet who does that.
1378
01:14:03,273 --> 01:14:07,193
♪ I could tell you I'm sorry
But you know I won't ♪
1379
01:14:07,193 --> 01:14:11,072
[man] It's my honor to announce
the 2020 Most Valuable Player
1380
01:14:11,072 --> 01:14:13,825
is Giannis Antetokounmpo.
1381
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:19,831
Winning back-to-back MVPs,
how difficult is that?
1382
01:14:19,831 --> 01:14:21,833
There's LeBron James. There's Steph Curry.
1383
01:14:21,833 --> 01:14:22,834
There's Joker.
1384
01:14:23,418 --> 01:14:25,837
To be the greatest of the greats
1385
01:14:26,713 --> 01:14:30,925
two years in a row
is an absurd accomplishment.
1386
01:14:30,925 --> 01:14:33,469
- [announcer 1] Giannis.
- [announcer 2] Greek Freak flush!
1387
01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:36,723
♪ Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, gone ♪
1388
01:14:37,182 --> 01:14:40,643
♪ You see my rocket ship
Head up in the clouds ♪
1389
01:14:40,643 --> 01:14:42,812
♪ When the spaceship lit, ignite ♪
1390
01:14:42,812 --> 01:14:46,733
♪ Hit me from the ground
I'm about to lift off ♪
1391
01:14:46,733 --> 01:14:50,361
["Lift Off" by Labrinth playing]
1392
01:14:56,159 --> 01:14:57,577
Once he won the MVPs,
1393
01:14:57,577 --> 01:14:59,787
the last thing remaining on his résumé
1394
01:14:59,787 --> 01:15:01,164
was an NBA championship.
1395
01:15:02,749 --> 01:15:04,876
Listen, listen, listen, listen.
1396
01:15:04,876 --> 01:15:07,921
Please. Please do me this favor
so I can be better.
1397
01:15:07,921 --> 01:15:10,798
I can be a better player.
I can lead this team to a championship.
1398
01:15:10,798 --> 01:15:12,800
Please don't call me MVP.
1399
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:14,886
[dramatic music playing]
1400
01:15:14,886 --> 01:15:18,765
In December 2020,
he had a big decision to sign,
1401
01:15:18,765 --> 01:15:23,144
you know, another contract to stay here
for another couple years or to leave.
1402
01:15:23,144 --> 01:15:25,396
With professional athletes in Milwaukee,
1403
01:15:25,396 --> 01:15:30,526
the question is always
when is this person going to leave?
1404
01:15:31,778 --> 01:15:33,988
That was a very real concern
1405
01:15:33,988 --> 01:15:38,159
as Giannis was leading into this decision.
1406
01:15:39,702 --> 01:15:41,329
[Middleton]
I know this deadline is pushing soon,
1407
01:15:41,329 --> 01:15:43,206
so for his birthday present,
1408
01:15:43,206 --> 01:15:46,960
I had the corny joke
of giving him, uh, pens.
1409
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,796
- [laughter]
- [Giannis] It's just stupid-ass pens, bro.
1410
01:15:49,796 --> 01:15:51,339
Bro, you mad 'cause you want it.
1411
01:15:51,339 --> 01:15:52,715
Bro, first of all, Mamadi had
1412
01:15:52,715 --> 01:15:55,134
- one of these in like his back pocket.
- [laughter]
1413
01:15:55,134 --> 01:15:57,095
[Middleton] I've been his teammate
for the longest time,
1414
01:15:57,095 --> 01:15:59,138
and, of course,
I don't want my guy to leave.
1415
01:15:59,138 --> 01:16:00,723
I'm glad that you were surprised.
1416
01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:05,436
When people were wondering if Giannis
would sign with the Milwaukee Bucks
1417
01:16:05,436 --> 01:16:08,982
and stay in Milwaukee,
a Greek gentleman came up to me, a fan,
1418
01:16:08,982 --> 01:16:11,859
and the fan said,
"Don't worry about it, Jim.
1419
01:16:11,859 --> 01:16:14,779
We have a philosophy in Greece
called philotimo,
1420
01:16:15,571 --> 01:16:19,075
which is founded in character
and loyalty."
1421
01:16:19,075 --> 01:16:20,827
He said, "He'll stay."
1422
01:16:20,827 --> 01:16:23,913
[upbeat music playing]
1423
01:16:25,832 --> 01:16:28,167
[Giannis]
It's more than just basketball for me.
1424
01:16:28,167 --> 01:16:29,544
It's more than just business.
1425
01:16:29,544 --> 01:16:31,713
And people can say
that's a flaw that I have.
1426
01:16:33,089 --> 01:16:35,341
They can tell me,
"You could go to New York,
1427
01:16:35,341 --> 01:16:37,468
to go to Miami, go to LA,
1428
01:16:37,468 --> 01:16:40,221
to a big market team and make more money."
1429
01:16:40,221 --> 01:16:43,599
But those people did not help me, man.
1430
01:16:43,599 --> 01:16:45,685
Those people did not bring my family.
1431
01:16:46,644 --> 01:16:48,771
I didn't cry with those people.
1432
01:16:48,771 --> 01:16:52,108
I didn't, uh, fail with those people.
1433
01:16:52,108 --> 01:16:53,818
I didn't succeed with those people.
1434
01:16:53,818 --> 01:16:55,153
I grew up here.
1435
01:16:55,153 --> 01:16:56,404
This is... this is my home.
1436
01:16:59,949 --> 01:17:04,412
[Giannis] I was a kid that came
from nowhere and they embraced me.
1437
01:17:05,580 --> 01:17:06,873
I couldn't leave.
1438
01:17:09,083 --> 01:17:11,961
Anytime you hear Giannis talk,
it's about his family,
1439
01:17:11,961 --> 01:17:13,755
what his mom did, what his dad did,
1440
01:17:13,755 --> 01:17:15,089
what his brothers are doing,
1441
01:17:15,089 --> 01:17:16,924
how much his kids and me mean to him.
1442
01:17:18,134 --> 01:17:20,178
- Okay. Let's do this. Let's do it.
- Let's do it.
1443
01:17:20,178 --> 01:17:22,138
- So I just, uh, put the date?
- Date.
1444
01:17:23,514 --> 01:17:24,682
[Mariah] That's who he is.
1445
01:17:24,682 --> 01:17:26,476
And Milwaukee is such a big part of it,
1446
01:17:26,476 --> 01:17:30,480
because it's what allowed his family
1447
01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:33,608
to go from struggling
1448
01:17:33,608 --> 01:17:36,444
to where they are now, thriving.
1449
01:17:36,444 --> 01:17:38,321
- He wants the pen.
- [Mariah laughs]
1450
01:17:38,321 --> 01:17:39,364
You wanna sign?
1451
01:17:41,032 --> 01:17:42,116
It's big, man. It's big.
1452
01:17:42,116 --> 01:17:43,618
Like from where we came from,
1453
01:17:43,618 --> 01:17:45,536
putting my signature on a paper like that,
1454
01:17:45,536 --> 01:17:47,413
it's fucking unbelievable.
1455
01:17:47,413 --> 01:17:48,998
It's unreal. It's unreal.
1456
01:17:48,998 --> 01:17:50,917
The biggest deal in NBA history.
1457
01:17:50,917 --> 01:17:53,127
And, um, it's all because of hard work.
1458
01:17:53,127 --> 01:17:54,754
Gonna keep working hard.
1459
01:17:55,588 --> 01:17:57,632
And, hopefully,
I cannot let you guys down
1460
01:17:57,632 --> 01:17:59,759
and make you guys proud
and make this city proud
1461
01:17:59,759 --> 01:18:01,511
and, uh... have fun.
1462
01:18:01,511 --> 01:18:02,929
Let's have fun, okay?
1463
01:18:02,929 --> 01:18:04,555
[man] We love you, guys. Thank you.
1464
01:18:04,555 --> 01:18:07,100
- [woman] We love you.
- [applause]
1465
01:18:07,100 --> 01:18:08,643
[all] Cheers.
1466
01:18:08,643 --> 01:18:10,186
[man 2] Congratulations.
1467
01:18:10,186 --> 01:18:11,646
[man 3] Cheers, man.
1468
01:18:11,646 --> 01:18:13,189
[Veronica] Cheers.
1469
01:18:13,189 --> 01:18:14,565
Cheers.
1470
01:18:16,317 --> 01:18:21,239
[reporter 1] It's not often that a true
NBA superstar stays in a small market.
1471
01:18:21,239 --> 01:18:25,993
[reporter 2] News of Giannis signing
the supermax has fans thrilled.
1472
01:18:27,620 --> 01:18:34,335
It's good for the league
that you can see a superstar like that
1473
01:18:34,335 --> 01:18:38,214
stay put, give Milwaukee this identity,
1474
01:18:38,214 --> 01:18:42,510
uh, and not just be another guy
who bolts for the bright lights.
1475
01:18:44,011 --> 01:18:49,892
[Paschke] Philotimo, the Greek philosophy
of character and loyalty.
1476
01:18:49,892 --> 01:18:51,769
Giannis has philotimo.
1477
01:18:55,189 --> 01:18:56,983
More than anybody I've ever known.
1478
01:18:56,983 --> 01:19:00,069
[dramatic music playing]
1479
01:19:05,408 --> 01:19:07,952
[Paschke]
When Giannis decided to stay in Milwaukee,
1480
01:19:07,952 --> 01:19:10,455
everybody breathed a big sigh of relief
1481
01:19:10,455 --> 01:19:13,166
and then you go right back to,
1482
01:19:13,166 --> 01:19:15,042
"Okay, now, what can happen?"
1483
01:19:16,043 --> 01:19:18,421
[anchor]
Back-to-back MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo,
1484
01:19:18,421 --> 01:19:20,882
has achieved a lot
in his seven-year career,
1485
01:19:20,882 --> 01:19:22,758
but what has eluded him so far,
1486
01:19:22,758 --> 01:19:24,802
even a crack at an NBA title.
1487
01:19:25,636 --> 01:19:28,306
{\an8}[announcer]
For many people, this is a stunner.
1488
01:19:28,306 --> 01:19:30,975
{\an8}[Saratsis] They played Toronto
in the Eastern Conference Finals.
1489
01:19:31,476 --> 01:19:35,605
{\an8}And he couldn't push through
the way that he wanted to.
1490
01:19:36,856 --> 01:19:41,402
The next year, they lost to Miami
in the second round of the bubble.
1491
01:19:41,402 --> 01:19:45,448
{\an8}[announcer 1] The Milwaukee Bucks
had the best record again in the NBA.
1492
01:19:45,448 --> 01:19:48,201
{\an8}[announcer 2] They just couldn't get
the engine going.
1493
01:19:48,201 --> 01:19:52,246
{\an8}[announcer 1] That's it.
The best team in the NBA is gone.
1494
01:19:53,539 --> 01:19:57,084
The biggest critiques are always
he needs to shoot the ball better,
1495
01:19:57,084 --> 01:19:59,253
that he doesn't have a good outside shot,
1496
01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:00,463
his free throws.
1497
01:20:02,590 --> 01:20:06,344
{\an8}[Andrews] Coming off a supermax extension
against the Boston Celtics,
1498
01:20:06,344 --> 01:20:09,680
Giannis heads to the free throw line,
1499
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:14,769
{\an8}and the issue that has plagued him
comes back.
1500
01:20:14,769 --> 01:20:19,440
[announcer] Antetokounmpo,
a chance to tie it with free throws.
1501
01:20:21,108 --> 01:20:22,693
Giannis for the tie.
1502
01:20:22,693 --> 01:20:25,905
Oh, he comes up short, and that's it.
1503
01:20:28,282 --> 01:20:29,700
[reporter 1] You're a two-time MVP.
1504
01:20:29,700 --> 01:20:31,702
You gotta make that free throw.
It's that simple.
1505
01:20:31,702 --> 01:20:33,996
[reporter 2] Can't overlook Giannis
and that missed free throw
1506
01:20:33,996 --> 01:20:35,206
with 0.4 seconds left.
1507
01:20:35,206 --> 01:20:39,210
[reporter 3] Are you gonna sit up here
and tell me that the pressure
1508
01:20:39,210 --> 01:20:41,254
is on the organization and not...
1509
01:20:41,254 --> 01:20:43,631
- [reporter 4] Yeah.
- [reporter 3] ...Giannis?
1510
01:20:43,631 --> 01:20:47,009
[Saratsis] Even though he will never say
that he hears all the criticism,
1511
01:20:47,009 --> 01:20:48,469
he hears all the criticism.
1512
01:20:48,469 --> 01:20:49,554
He sees all of it.
1513
01:20:50,763 --> 01:20:52,348
I wouldn't wanna be Giannis.
1514
01:20:53,391 --> 01:20:55,726
You take the last shot and you miss,
they'll blame you.
1515
01:20:55,726 --> 01:20:59,230
If you don't take the last shot
and we don't win, they blame you.
1516
01:21:00,815 --> 01:21:02,942
[man] The pressures of being an MVP,
1517
01:21:02,942 --> 01:21:05,278
the pressures of winning a championship,
1518
01:21:06,821 --> 01:21:10,074
when you care about so many people,
1519
01:21:10,074 --> 01:21:12,994
um, as Giannis does,
1520
01:21:12,994 --> 01:21:15,538
his family, the organization,
1521
01:21:15,538 --> 01:21:17,623
uh, the city of Milwaukee,
1522
01:21:17,623 --> 01:21:20,960
it can become overwhelming
for a 26-year-old.
1523
01:21:22,837 --> 01:21:26,215
It was a tough year,
just emotionally and mentally.
1524
01:21:26,215 --> 01:21:32,054
And all this pressure of,
"Giannis, in order to seal who you are,
1525
01:21:32,054 --> 01:21:34,515
you have to win a championship,"
it gets to you.
1526
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:39,812
[Alex] Every person has a boiling point.
1527
01:21:40,771 --> 01:21:42,523
I think that he reached that level
1528
01:21:42,523 --> 01:21:45,026
that it was like,
"I don't think I can anymore."
1529
01:21:46,861 --> 01:21:48,904
[Giannis] I was dealing with some stuff.
1530
01:21:48,904 --> 01:21:52,950
I don't think I had enough time
to grieve my father.
1531
01:21:54,535 --> 01:21:57,705
I had to be there for my brothers
and my mom.
1532
01:21:58,497 --> 01:22:02,627
Seeing your mom sad
and wearing black clothes
1533
01:22:02,627 --> 01:22:04,545
and all that is not a good feeling.
1534
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,006
And I don't think I had time to kind of...
1535
01:22:09,717 --> 01:22:12,345
take for myself, talk with my family.
1536
01:22:12,345 --> 01:22:14,138
I said, "I don't wanna play no more.
1537
01:22:14,138 --> 01:22:15,514
I don't wanna play no more."
1538
01:22:17,099 --> 01:22:19,018
There's no joy. It's torture.
1539
01:22:21,979 --> 01:22:24,106
I thought he was gonna quit.
I thought he was done.
1540
01:22:24,106 --> 01:22:25,608
I thought he wasn't gonna play anymore.
1541
01:22:27,068 --> 01:22:28,986
[Thanasis]
What I said was, "I'm with you.
1542
01:22:29,695 --> 01:22:32,114
You're going to stop playing.
So what?"
1543
01:22:32,114 --> 01:22:35,493
You gotta start being that 12-year-old
and saying, "Okay, we gotta go out there,
1544
01:22:35,493 --> 01:22:37,495
work, and see
what we're gonna eat tomorrow."
1545
01:22:37,495 --> 01:22:38,496
This is nothing.
1546
01:22:39,997 --> 01:22:42,166
[Kostas]
I was like, "If you quit, we quit."
1547
01:22:42,708 --> 01:22:44,502
We're family. We do it together.
1548
01:22:45,628 --> 01:22:48,005
I think it was a decision
that I was willing to take,
1549
01:22:48,005 --> 01:22:52,176
not for him to feel that excluded,
not to feel alone.
1550
01:22:52,176 --> 01:22:54,428
I remember telling him,
1551
01:22:54,428 --> 01:22:57,807
"Have you ever grieved for your father?
1552
01:22:57,807 --> 01:22:59,850
You dove into the basketball.
1553
01:22:59,850 --> 01:23:02,436
You did everything to make sure
that your family was okay,
1554
01:23:02,436 --> 01:23:03,938
which was the right thing to do.
1555
01:23:03,938 --> 01:23:08,025
But when have you ever stopped
and said, 'I need help myself?'"
1556
01:23:09,735 --> 01:23:13,280
I started talking to a sports psych,
1557
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:14,865
started doing therapy,
1558
01:23:15,991 --> 01:23:18,869
and it was one of the best decisions
that I've ever done in my life
1559
01:23:18,869 --> 01:23:22,206
to be able to, uh,
develop a coping mechanism.
1560
01:23:23,708 --> 01:23:26,961
[Mariah] He fought harder than anybody
will ever know off the court.
1561
01:23:27,962 --> 01:23:32,466
To see his fight and what he did to get
through it was just absolutely amazing.
1562
01:23:33,843 --> 01:23:36,470
[anchor] Milwaukee with Giannis,
they had the best record in the east,
1563
01:23:36,470 --> 01:23:39,265
back-to-back seasons
and disappointed in the playoffs.
1564
01:23:39,265 --> 01:23:40,975
Why do they look different this year?
1565
01:23:40,975 --> 01:23:44,478
This is a team, if they handle close games
differently than they have in the past,
1566
01:23:44,478 --> 01:23:47,690
{\an8}the Bucks can certainly
get to the Conference Finals.
1567
01:23:48,774 --> 01:23:52,445
{\an8}Giannis genuinely contemplated
quitting basketball
1568
01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:54,905
probably in the beginning of January,
1569
01:23:55,823 --> 01:23:59,243
and 20th of June they were in
the Eastern Conference Finals.
1570
01:23:59,243 --> 01:24:02,621
[reporter] The Hawks are now down
two games to one to the Bucks.
1571
01:24:03,414 --> 01:24:06,834
[announcer 1] So Giannis
opens up on fire here.
1572
01:24:06,834 --> 01:24:08,627
And he scores.
1573
01:24:09,795 --> 01:24:14,633
[announcer 2] Milwaukee trying to take
a stranglehold on this series.
1574
01:24:16,302 --> 01:24:17,261
[announcer 1] Oh!
1575
01:24:18,012 --> 01:24:20,139
[announcer 2] And someone's down.
1576
01:24:20,139 --> 01:24:24,518
And it looks like it's Giannis
grabbing that left knee.
1577
01:24:25,436 --> 01:24:26,645
Oh, no.
1578
01:24:30,691 --> 01:24:32,568
[Giannis] I fell down.
1579
01:24:32,568 --> 01:24:34,570
My knee kind of went the other way.
1580
01:24:36,322 --> 01:24:38,115
- [announcer 1] Oh.
- [announcer 2] Oh, man.
1581
01:24:38,115 --> 01:24:40,242
- [announcer 1] Can't even look at it.
- [announcer 2] No.
1582
01:24:41,494 --> 01:24:42,828
[Giannis] I keep yelling.
1583
01:24:42,828 --> 01:24:45,039
I'm like, "Fuck, fuck, fuck."
1584
01:24:46,373 --> 01:24:48,375
[Andrews] The way that he yelled out,
1585
01:24:49,418 --> 01:24:51,837
it was piercing how much pain he was in.
1586
01:24:51,837 --> 01:24:54,465
[announcer 1]
Trying to help Giannis to his feet.
1587
01:24:54,465 --> 01:24:56,091
[announcer 2] Here's the true test.
1588
01:24:56,091 --> 01:24:59,887
Is he able to put any weight on it?
1589
01:25:00,346 --> 01:25:03,182
[Giannis] My brother came to me
and was like, "What do you feel?"
1590
01:25:03,182 --> 01:25:07,520
"Like, bro, I felt like a pop.
Like, I fell a pop on my knee."
1591
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:10,689
He's like, "No, no, no, no, no.
Are you sure?"
1592
01:25:12,066 --> 01:25:14,109
And while I'm walking back,
I looked at my knee,
1593
01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:16,403
and my knee was double in size,
1594
01:25:16,403 --> 01:25:19,198
and I said, "Oh, shit."
1595
01:25:20,449 --> 01:25:25,412
[announcer 1] This is something
you absolutely don't wanna see.
1596
01:25:28,749 --> 01:25:31,836
[Baker] I saw him two days later.
1597
01:25:31,836 --> 01:25:33,337
He had a brace on.
1598
01:25:33,337 --> 01:25:37,967
He literally was limping into the gym.
1599
01:25:38,592 --> 01:25:40,845
And he was saying,
"I'll be back. I'll be back."
1600
01:25:40,845 --> 01:25:42,930
I'm like, "You're not gonna be back."
1601
01:25:42,930 --> 01:25:44,223
He hyperextended it.
1602
01:25:44,223 --> 01:25:47,560
And I've been around basketball enough
and have done the injury to know
1603
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,938
that you can't come back
from that within a month.
1604
01:25:50,938 --> 01:25:53,399
I said, "Guys, just give me opportunity."
1605
01:25:53,399 --> 01:25:54,859
That's all I asked for.
1606
01:25:54,859 --> 01:25:56,569
Just give me an opportunity.
1607
01:25:56,569 --> 01:25:57,653
Hold this down for me.
1608
01:25:59,238 --> 01:26:01,866
Played two unbelievable games
and went to the finals.
1609
01:26:01,866 --> 01:26:04,118
[reporter 1]
The Bucks advance now to the finals,
1610
01:26:04,118 --> 01:26:05,703
but we still don't know when
1611
01:26:05,703 --> 01:26:08,455
or perhaps if Giannis Antetokounmpo
is gonna come back.
1612
01:26:08,455 --> 01:26:10,833
[reporter 2] Almost certainly
there'll be no Giannis.
1613
01:26:17,006 --> 01:26:18,382
{\an8}[Giannis] I was walking.
1614
01:26:18,382 --> 01:26:19,675
{\an8}Then I was jogging.
1615
01:26:19,675 --> 01:26:20,759
Then I was running.
1616
01:26:20,759 --> 01:26:22,261
Then I was lifting weights.
1617
01:26:23,345 --> 01:26:24,889
Yeah, I was back in six days.
1618
01:26:27,558 --> 01:26:29,727
[Holiday]
We have our first finals practice.
1619
01:26:29,727 --> 01:26:32,187
First time we see him touch the floor.
1620
01:26:32,187 --> 01:26:35,441
And we're like, "All right. Cool.
The game's the next day.
1621
01:26:35,441 --> 01:26:36,901
There's gonna be
like a little walkthrough."
1622
01:26:36,901 --> 01:26:39,987
And Giannis is going a 150 miles an hour.
1623
01:26:39,987 --> 01:26:43,073
And we're like... literally have to
tell him like, "Bro, calm down.
1624
01:26:43,073 --> 01:26:45,576
We don't... like...
we don't need you today.
1625
01:26:45,576 --> 01:26:47,536
We need you tomorrow. Relax."
1626
01:26:47,536 --> 01:26:49,872
He wasn't looking
for people to coddle him.
1627
01:26:49,872 --> 01:26:52,207
He wasn't babying the knee.
1628
01:26:52,207 --> 01:26:55,878
He was like,
"I'm here to win a championship."
1629
01:26:56,837 --> 01:27:01,800
{\an8}[PA announcer] Good evening and welcome
to game one of the 2021 NBA Finals.
1630
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:04,845
{\an8}[announcer 1] Giannis Antetokounmpo,
after missing the last two games
1631
01:27:04,845 --> 01:27:07,014
{\an8}in the conference finals,
is in the lineup.
1632
01:27:07,932 --> 01:27:09,266
[Giannis] Come on. Bucks on three.
One, two, three.
1633
01:27:09,266 --> 01:27:10,267
[all] Bucks!
1634
01:27:10,267 --> 01:27:13,854
[announcer] Antetokounmpo,
again, drives inside and throws it down.
1635
01:27:14,855 --> 01:27:16,273
{\an8}Giannis is a super freak healer.
1636
01:27:16,273 --> 01:27:20,819
{\an8}I don't know if he has
some other makeup than the rest of us,
1637
01:27:20,819 --> 01:27:25,032
but he heals in a way
that nobody else does.
1638
01:27:25,032 --> 01:27:28,494
[announcer 1] There is no hesitancy
from Giannis Antetokounmpo.
1639
01:27:28,494 --> 01:27:30,913
Crowder to Bridges. Bridges up inside.
1640
01:27:30,913 --> 01:27:32,748
Blocked by Antetokounmpo.
1641
01:27:32,748 --> 01:27:34,249
[announcer 2] He blows it down
the center of the floor.
1642
01:27:34,249 --> 01:27:36,710
Only Chris Paul is back.
He slams it.
1643
01:27:37,461 --> 01:27:39,588
{\an8}[Giannis] Played the game one,
lost game one,
1644
01:27:40,214 --> 01:27:42,299
{\an8}but I felt so much confident though,
1645
01:27:42,299 --> 01:27:45,803
because when I got on the court,
I'm like, "Okay, I can play."
1646
01:27:45,803 --> 01:27:47,680
The next game, we come back, game two.
1647
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:49,974
[announcer 1] Middleton, the drive.
Blocked by Ayton.
1648
01:27:49,974 --> 01:27:52,267
- Saved by Bridges.
- [announcer 2] This is unbelievable.
1649
01:27:52,267 --> 01:27:53,769
Seven three-pointers.
1650
01:27:53,769 --> 01:27:56,855
[announcer 3] Inside. Bridges to Ayton.
Foul, and one.
1651
01:27:56,855 --> 01:27:59,066
{\an8}[announcer 4] The Suns
halfway to a championship.
1652
01:27:59,066 --> 01:28:01,068
{\an8}A 2-0 series lead.
1653
01:28:01,860 --> 01:28:03,320
{\an8}We lost game two.
1654
01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:05,114
But I played better, I felt better.
1655
01:28:05,114 --> 01:28:08,200
[crowd chanting]
Suns in four! Suns in four!
1656
01:28:08,784 --> 01:28:12,287
{\an8}They were real enthusiastic and emphatic
that they were gonna sweep us.
1657
01:28:12,287 --> 01:28:13,330
4-0. 4-0.
1658
01:28:13,330 --> 01:28:15,874
Teams that have won
the first two games in the finals
1659
01:28:15,874 --> 01:28:19,003
have gone on to win the championship
89% of the time.
1660
01:28:19,003 --> 01:28:20,879
Could the Bucks get swept?
1661
01:28:20,879 --> 01:28:25,259
Giannis doesn't have
that alpha quality leadership.
1662
01:28:26,927 --> 01:28:29,930
{\an8}[announcer] They lose this game tonight,
their hopes of breaking
1663
01:28:29,930 --> 01:28:32,725
{\an8}a 50-year drought
of a championship in peril.
1664
01:28:36,603 --> 01:28:39,606
[Giannis] The game was so close
to being taken away from me
1665
01:28:39,606 --> 01:28:42,192
that I appreciate every minute of it.
1666
01:28:43,444 --> 01:28:44,945
I didn't take it for granted.
1667
01:28:46,572 --> 01:28:49,992
All of a sudden,
Giannis starts to take over.
1668
01:28:49,992 --> 01:28:53,537
[announcer 1] Antetokounmpo,
four assists here in the opening quarter.
1669
01:28:53,537 --> 01:28:55,914
[announcer 2]
They can't stop Giannis tonight.
1670
01:28:55,914 --> 01:28:58,876
[announcer 1]
Giannis Antetokounmpo punishing the Suns.
1671
01:28:58,876 --> 01:29:02,129
The impact that Giannis
has on the psyche of the opponent.
1672
01:29:02,129 --> 01:29:04,256
[announcer 1] Shot won't go.
Gets the rebound. Back up.
1673
01:29:04,256 --> 01:29:06,592
Banks it in, and a foul.
1674
01:29:07,134 --> 01:29:08,927
[announcer 2] Giannis goes for 41.
1675
01:29:08,927 --> 01:29:12,890
{\an8}And the Bucks beat Phoenix 120-100.
1676
01:29:13,891 --> 01:29:14,975
I call it the Giannis effect.
1677
01:29:14,975 --> 01:29:17,352
[announcer] Antetokounmpo on the steal.
1678
01:29:18,395 --> 01:29:19,772
[Marques] I don't wanna get
dunked on by Giannis.
1679
01:29:19,772 --> 01:29:21,273
I don't wanna get my shot
blocked by Giannis.
1680
01:29:21,273 --> 01:29:23,734
[announcer] Now Booker
throws it up for Ayton.
1681
01:29:23,734 --> 01:29:25,986
Shot blocked by Antetokounmpo.
1682
01:29:25,986 --> 01:29:27,905
What a block from Giannis.
1683
01:29:29,656 --> 01:29:32,701
[Marques]
You get so preoccupied with Giannis
1684
01:29:32,701 --> 01:29:35,412
that it impacts
almost every area of your game.
1685
01:29:35,412 --> 01:29:38,665
{\an8}[announcer] The NBA Finals
are tied at two games apiece.
1686
01:29:38,665 --> 01:29:40,167
{\an8}It's a best of three now.
1687
01:29:42,252 --> 01:29:43,545
Two more.
1688
01:29:43,545 --> 01:29:46,340
Game five is one of
the most perfect basketball games
1689
01:29:46,340 --> 01:29:48,717
{\an8}we've ever played as a team.
1690
01:29:50,010 --> 01:29:52,054
{\an8}[announcer]
Booker, the drive. Gets inside.
1691
01:29:52,054 --> 01:29:53,263
{\an8}Leans in.
1692
01:29:53,263 --> 01:29:55,682
{\an8}Knocked away and stolen by Holiday.
1693
01:29:55,682 --> 01:29:58,185
Jrue Holiday stole the ball, came up,
1694
01:29:58,185 --> 01:30:01,146
it looked like he was
gonna dribble out the clock.
1695
01:30:01,146 --> 01:30:03,440
We're up one.
I think I'm gonna hold the ball.
1696
01:30:03,440 --> 01:30:04,942
It's probably the smart thing to do.
1697
01:30:04,942 --> 01:30:08,320
He told me to throw it up,
and I threw it as high as I could.
1698
01:30:15,661 --> 01:30:17,371
[announcer] Phoenix has to foul.
1699
01:30:17,371 --> 01:30:19,873
And Antetokounmpo throws it down.
1700
01:30:23,335 --> 01:30:24,253
[Paschke] That play,
1701
01:30:24,878 --> 01:30:29,758
that recognition on the part of Giannis
crushed the Phoenix Suns.
1702
01:30:29,758 --> 01:30:31,260
It crushed them.
1703
01:30:40,602 --> 01:30:41,937
One more, baby.
1704
01:30:42,771 --> 01:30:43,856
One more.
1705
01:30:43,856 --> 01:30:45,899
[cheers and applause]
1706
01:30:54,616 --> 01:30:55,993
[Giannis] We won game five.
1707
01:30:55,993 --> 01:30:57,911
And when we won game five, I'm like,
1708
01:30:58,620 --> 01:31:00,038
"We gotta go back home now."
1709
01:31:00,664 --> 01:31:03,208
{\an8}And it's kind of tricky
because you might be up 3-2
1710
01:31:03,208 --> 01:31:04,501
{\an8}but you have the pressure.
1711
01:31:04,501 --> 01:31:07,629
{\an8}[crowd chanting]
Bucks in six! Bucks in six!
1712
01:31:07,629 --> 01:31:08,964
Bucks in six!
1713
01:31:09,882 --> 01:31:12,050
Because if you don't finish it,
now you gotta go back there.
1714
01:31:12,718 --> 01:31:16,555
[announcer] For Giannis Antetokounmpo,
simply the biggest game of his life.
1715
01:31:17,639 --> 01:31:20,225
[Ernie]
Fifty years of no championship.
1716
01:31:21,727 --> 01:31:25,564
This was a chance for Milwaukee
to win an NBA title.
1717
01:31:25,564 --> 01:31:26,940
[Giannis] We need one more.
1718
01:31:26,940 --> 01:31:28,150
At the end of the day,
it's just another game.
1719
01:31:28,150 --> 01:31:29,318
Enjoy this shit.
1720
01:31:29,318 --> 01:31:31,904
Set the fucking tone.
Pay attention to details from the start.
1721
01:31:31,904 --> 01:31:34,114
Do what you do based on your fucking role.
1722
01:31:34,114 --> 01:31:35,199
Do what you do.
1723
01:31:35,199 --> 01:31:37,117
- We want to dance tonight.
- Do what you fuckin' do!
1724
01:31:37,117 --> 01:31:39,161
Come on, let's dance.
Come on. One more time. Come on.
1725
01:31:39,161 --> 01:31:41,830
- [man] Together on three. One, two, three.
- [all] Together.
1726
01:31:41,830 --> 01:31:43,749
[man 2] Let's go.
1727
01:31:43,749 --> 01:31:46,835
[dramatic music playing]
1728
01:31:51,048 --> 01:31:52,883
[Giannis] Thanasis said, "Hey, man,
1729
01:31:53,592 --> 01:31:55,385
the trophy's in the building."
1730
01:31:56,720 --> 01:31:58,889
I said,
"The trophy's in the building, huh?"
1731
01:31:59,389 --> 01:32:00,432
You can finish it today.
1732
01:32:00,432 --> 01:32:03,018
This trophy is not leaving this building.
We're gonna win.
1733
01:32:03,018 --> 01:32:05,520
You know, we're gonna win.
We're gonna make this happen.
1734
01:32:07,022 --> 01:32:11,068
I gave my brother a hug and I told him,
I said, "Man, we've come a long way, huh?"
1735
01:32:13,362 --> 01:32:16,365
He was like,
"Yeah. Go finish this."
1736
01:32:16,365 --> 01:32:17,658
"I will."
1737
01:32:17,658 --> 01:32:20,744
[dramatic music playing]
1738
01:32:25,332 --> 01:32:27,876
This guy, like from
the first play of the game,
1739
01:32:27,876 --> 01:32:30,045
just showed that "I want this."
1740
01:32:30,045 --> 01:32:32,547
[announcer] Shot blocked
by Antetokounmpo.
1741
01:32:32,547 --> 01:32:35,801
Once again comes out of nowhere,
throws it off the backboard.
1742
01:32:35,801 --> 01:32:37,302
He was there on every play.
1743
01:32:37,970 --> 01:32:40,347
[announcer] Giannis down the...
he banks it home.
1744
01:32:40,347 --> 01:32:42,849
I was watching it live in Greece.
1745
01:32:42,849 --> 01:32:45,769
[announcer]
The spin move. Giannis does it again.
1746
01:32:46,270 --> 01:32:48,063
I think he had like 35 points.
1747
01:32:48,563 --> 01:32:50,232
[announcer] Giannis tries a three.
1748
01:32:50,232 --> 01:32:51,608
It's good.
1749
01:32:51,608 --> 01:32:52,776
And then he had like 40.
1750
01:32:52,776 --> 01:32:56,280
[announcer] Bank shot. No good.
Antetokounmpo with the follow.
1751
01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:57,656
- Forty-five.
- [announcer] Middleton inside.
1752
01:32:57,656 --> 01:33:01,702
Nice entry pass.
And a slam from Antetokounmpo.
1753
01:33:01,702 --> 01:33:03,453
He's got 45.
1754
01:33:05,247 --> 01:33:08,208
What's the difference
between a coward and a hero?
1755
01:33:08,709 --> 01:33:10,252
It's how you deal with fear.
1756
01:33:11,044 --> 01:33:13,630
Then you decide to be a hero.
1757
01:33:14,172 --> 01:33:16,758
[announcer] Inside, Antetokounmpo.
Puts up the one-hander.
1758
01:33:16,758 --> 01:33:19,219
Shot is good. Forty-nine.
1759
01:33:20,220 --> 01:33:21,138
[net swishes]
1760
01:33:21,138 --> 01:33:22,306
Fifty points.
1761
01:33:22,889 --> 01:33:27,311
Only the seventh player in the history
of the finals to have a 50-point game.
1762
01:33:29,354 --> 01:33:30,647
And that'll do it.
1763
01:33:31,982 --> 01:33:33,233
It's over.
1764
01:33:33,233 --> 01:33:34,609
The Bucks have done it.
1765
01:33:34,609 --> 01:33:36,153
{\an8}The long wait has ended.
1766
01:33:36,153 --> 01:33:37,738
{\an8}After a half-century,
1767
01:33:37,738 --> 01:33:41,158
{\an8}the Milwaukee Bucks
are NBA champions once again.
1768
01:33:45,996 --> 01:33:51,335
The 50-point game in a close-out game
to win an NBA Finals at home.
1769
01:33:51,335 --> 01:33:53,420
Milwaukee's first championship
1770
01:33:53,420 --> 01:33:55,714
across all professional sports
in 50 years.
1771
01:33:55,714 --> 01:33:58,675
[man]
Finals MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo.
1772
01:33:58,675 --> 01:34:01,428
[cheers and applause]
1773
01:34:01,428 --> 01:34:04,222
[Baker] Small market superstar.
1774
01:34:04,222 --> 01:34:07,059
His commitment to staying in Milwaukee
1775
01:34:07,809 --> 01:34:10,354
and it culminating
in a world championship,
1776
01:34:10,354 --> 01:34:12,606
you can't write it in a... in a movie.
1777
01:34:12,606 --> 01:34:15,692
[crowd cheering]
1778
01:34:21,573 --> 01:34:25,118
[dramatic music playing]
1779
01:34:25,118 --> 01:34:27,829
[Giannis]
I had one goal and one goal only,
1780
01:34:27,829 --> 01:34:29,581
to get to my family.
1781
01:35:03,198 --> 01:35:06,493
[Giannis] I wish dad was there
to hug him too.
1782
01:35:06,493 --> 01:35:09,788
[dramatic music playing]
1783
01:35:19,131 --> 01:35:21,133
Hey, guys, say hello to the camera.
1784
01:35:21,550 --> 01:35:22,926
Hello to the camera, Dad.
1785
01:35:22,926 --> 01:35:24,344
Come on.
1786
01:35:27,556 --> 01:35:30,100
Uh, it's been a long journey, man.
1787
01:35:30,100 --> 01:35:31,184
A long journey.
1788
01:35:31,184 --> 01:35:35,063
I can... I can remember the first time
that my dad walked into Bradley Center.
1789
01:35:37,899 --> 01:35:42,112
I was just like a stupid kid
with just big dreams.
1790
01:35:45,699 --> 01:35:47,868
[Charles] Giannis works very, very hard.
1791
01:35:50,245 --> 01:35:52,914
His name is now a household name in Greece
1792
01:35:52,914 --> 01:35:55,959
because of his achievement,
and this is always what we pray for.
1793
01:35:55,959 --> 01:35:58,837
[dramatic music continues]
1794
01:36:07,721 --> 01:36:09,055
Yeah!
1795
01:36:09,598 --> 01:36:10,932
Yeah!
1796
01:36:12,350 --> 01:36:13,810
I'm a champion.
1797
01:36:14,561 --> 01:36:15,687
I'm a champion.
1798
01:36:15,687 --> 01:36:17,481
My city is a champion.
1799
01:36:17,898 --> 01:36:20,150
[speaking Greek]
Kostas. Kostas.
1800
01:36:20,150 --> 01:36:23,236
[speaking Greek]
1801
01:36:24,529 --> 01:36:26,531
[in English]
♪ I'm a thief in the night ♪
1802
01:36:26,531 --> 01:36:28,450
♪ I'll tell you once ♪
1803
01:36:28,450 --> 01:36:29,784
♪ Won't tell you twice ♪
1804
01:36:29,784 --> 01:36:30,952
Eh!
1805
01:36:30,952 --> 01:36:32,829
Meet my mom right here.
1806
01:36:33,288 --> 01:36:35,290
Started from the bottom, now we're here.
1807
01:36:35,707 --> 01:36:38,293
[crowd cheering]
1808
01:36:40,420 --> 01:36:41,713
Whoo!
1809
01:36:41,713 --> 01:36:44,799
[crowd cheering]
1810
01:36:47,010 --> 01:36:51,306
No matter what happens in life,
nobody can take that moment away from you.
1811
01:36:51,306 --> 01:36:54,226
[crowd cheering]
1812
01:36:55,685 --> 01:36:58,605
[Giannis] It's been done.
It's history.
1813
01:36:58,605 --> 01:37:01,691
[crowd cheering]
1814
01:37:04,861 --> 01:37:06,863
Milwaukee, we did it, baby!
1815
01:37:06,863 --> 01:37:08,365
We did it!
1816
01:37:08,365 --> 01:37:11,284
[cheers and applause]
1817
01:37:11,284 --> 01:37:13,286
We did it, man.
1818
01:37:13,286 --> 01:37:15,664
I love it here. I love the city.
1819
01:37:17,082 --> 01:37:19,417
I feel like I'm one of them.
1820
01:37:21,670 --> 01:37:26,132
And I'm gonna do everything that I can
to win, uh, another championship.
1821
01:37:27,133 --> 01:37:29,135
I'm not satisfied. I want more.
1822
01:37:30,303 --> 01:37:33,223
I know I'm in the second chapter
of my career now.
1823
01:37:33,223 --> 01:37:39,062
The goal is to have another, uh,
another Hall of Fame decade.
1824
01:37:43,024 --> 01:37:44,442
{\an8}How you doing?
1825
01:37:44,442 --> 01:37:46,069
{\an8}- [man] Oh.
- [Giannis] You good?
1826
01:37:46,987 --> 01:37:48,863
Now that the sun is going down,
we go up there.
1827
01:37:48,863 --> 01:37:50,907
We take a legendary picture
with the trophy.
1828
01:37:50,907 --> 01:37:51,992
[man] Yes, sir.
1829
01:37:51,992 --> 01:37:54,494
[Giannis] It's gonna be historical,
this moment.
1830
01:37:55,870 --> 01:37:57,038
Let's do it.
1831
01:37:57,038 --> 01:37:59,207
[indistinct chatter]
1832
01:37:59,749 --> 01:38:02,210
[Giannis] This is historical moment.
Historical.
1833
01:38:02,210 --> 01:38:03,920
This is beautiful right here.
1834
01:38:05,213 --> 01:38:06,298
What is this?
1835
01:38:06,298 --> 01:38:07,507
[gasps] Oh, my God.
1836
01:38:07,507 --> 01:38:09,759
Oh, my God.
1837
01:38:09,759 --> 01:38:11,136
Are you serious?
1838
01:38:11,845 --> 01:38:13,388
- Whoa.
- Thank you. Oh, my gosh.
1839
01:38:15,765 --> 01:38:17,767
[speaking Greek]
1840
01:38:17,767 --> 01:38:20,854
[indistinct chatter]
1841
01:38:32,032 --> 01:38:35,994
[Stavrou] Giannis, Thanasis, Alex,
and Kostas, they really love Greece.
1842
01:38:37,370 --> 01:38:39,247
That's the place they grew up.
1843
01:38:39,247 --> 01:38:41,374
But we don't deserve Giannis.
1844
01:38:41,708 --> 01:38:42,959
That's my point of view.
1845
01:38:43,710 --> 01:38:44,919
[speaking Greek]
1846
01:38:44,919 --> 01:38:47,714
[in English] Stand here. No.
Stand right here...
1847
01:38:47,714 --> 01:38:50,508
[indistinct chatter]
1848
01:38:53,637 --> 01:38:55,305
[Mariah]
When we go back to Greece, I was like,
1849
01:38:55,305 --> 01:38:57,766
"Why do you like being here
if there's so many people
1850
01:38:57,766 --> 01:38:59,643
who don't think you belong here?"
1851
01:39:03,355 --> 01:39:07,067
[Giannis] You don't see a lot
of immigrants thriving in Greece.
1852
01:39:08,610 --> 01:39:14,032
I feel like if me or my brothers
don't do it now, who's gonna do it?
1853
01:39:14,032 --> 01:39:17,118
[indistinct chatter]
1854
01:39:19,788 --> 01:39:22,165
[Giannis]
I believe that dad is extremely proud,
1855
01:39:22,165 --> 01:39:25,502
you know, what we've accomplished
and who we've become as human beings.
1856
01:39:25,502 --> 01:39:26,836
He's watching from above.
1857
01:39:26,836 --> 01:39:28,129
He's smiling at us.
1858
01:39:28,129 --> 01:39:31,549
He's guiding us, you know,
through our journeys.
1859
01:39:31,549 --> 01:39:33,051
He's proud of our grandkids.
1860
01:39:33,051 --> 01:39:36,388
He's proud of, you know,
what we're gonna accomplish in the future.
1861
01:39:37,972 --> 01:39:41,559
If I could have one wish right now,
it's that every person on this earth
1862
01:39:41,559 --> 01:39:44,479
could have the opportunity
to accomplish their own dream,
1863
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:48,024
to reach their own potential,
to be great in what they love,
1864
01:39:48,024 --> 01:39:49,484
to accomplish their dreams.
1865
01:39:49,484 --> 01:39:52,737
There's something special
in reaching your dreams.
1866
01:39:53,571 --> 01:39:55,782
It fills you up as a human being.
1867
01:39:55,782 --> 01:39:58,118
And I believe this family
can do that for people.
1868
01:39:58,618 --> 01:39:59,994
[Alex] Like Daddy used to say,
1869
01:39:59,994 --> 01:40:02,664
if you can take advantage
of an opportunity today,
1870
01:40:02,664 --> 01:40:04,040
why wait till tomorrow?
1871
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:07,127
I know that it's starting
from a little meal right now.
1872
01:40:08,503 --> 01:40:10,588
This foundation is gonna be beyond us...
1873
01:40:10,588 --> 01:40:12,048
- [Thanasis] Amen.
- ...because this is gonna be
1874
01:40:12,048 --> 01:40:15,844
going for years, and years, and years,
centuries, you know?
1875
01:40:15,844 --> 01:40:17,971
And then when we are... when we are done,
1876
01:40:17,971 --> 01:40:19,514
our kids gonna take over.
1877
01:40:19,514 --> 01:40:22,684
And when our kids are done,
our grandkids are gonna take over.
1878
01:40:22,684 --> 01:40:26,563
And when our grand... your great-great-
great-grandkids are gonna take over.
1879
01:40:27,105 --> 01:40:30,859
I thought about them like, "Okay,
I'm just gonna start this foundation."
1880
01:40:30,859 --> 01:40:34,696
I got the name, CAFF,
Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation.
1881
01:40:34,696 --> 01:40:37,365
Try to do something
my dad would be proud of.
1882
01:40:37,907 --> 01:40:41,286
Try to uplift immigrants in Greece,
1883
01:40:42,078 --> 01:40:45,123
in Nigeria, in Milwaukee.
1884
01:40:46,207 --> 01:40:49,210
[indistinct chatter]
1885
01:40:49,210 --> 01:40:52,297
[applause]
1886
01:40:54,549 --> 01:40:56,801
[Mariah] He's like,
"I'm changing that perception
1887
01:40:56,801 --> 01:40:58,678
of what immigrants can do in a country."
1888
01:40:58,678 --> 01:41:00,180
It's Giannis!
1889
01:41:02,599 --> 01:41:03,683
How are you guys doing?
1890
01:41:03,683 --> 01:41:05,351
[in Greek] How are you?
1891
01:41:05,351 --> 01:41:07,395
He's five-meters tall!
1892
01:41:08,271 --> 01:41:09,481
Immigrants aren't criminals.
1893
01:41:09,481 --> 01:41:12,233
They're not here to take your jobs.
1894
01:41:12,233 --> 01:41:15,153
They're here looking for a better life,
just like you are.
1895
01:41:15,653 --> 01:41:18,948
[in Greek] So, this hoop here
has got a lot of history.
1896
01:41:18,948 --> 01:41:21,701
This hoop is where
I scored my first slam dunk.
1897
01:41:21,701 --> 01:41:26,915
Did you train for many hours every day?
1898
01:41:26,915 --> 01:41:30,710
Every day, but for me it was a lot of fun.
1899
01:41:30,710 --> 01:41:33,588
I played with my brothers,
with my friends.
1900
01:41:33,588 --> 01:41:37,509
Let's build some new memories
on this court.
1901
01:41:38,593 --> 01:41:40,762
Well done! Now you have to defend.
1902
01:41:40,762 --> 01:41:43,890
[in English] Where I came from,
what I've faced in my life,
1903
01:41:44,557 --> 01:41:45,892
I'm hopeful that...
1904
01:41:50,063 --> 01:41:53,191
when they see me
and they see that it can be done,
1905
01:41:53,191 --> 01:41:55,443
they see my brothers
and they see it can be done.
1906
01:41:55,443 --> 01:41:58,446
[in Greek]
There you go! There you go!
1907
01:41:58,446 --> 01:42:00,448
No, hang on! Where are you going?
1908
01:42:00,448 --> 01:42:04,118
First turn around and tell him,
"In your face!"
1909
01:42:04,118 --> 01:42:05,745
[in English]
That's bigger than just basketball.
1910
01:42:05,745 --> 01:42:08,998
[in Greek]
You did it! Well done!
1911
01:42:08,998 --> 01:42:12,085
[Papadojannis in English] If you go to any
of the immigrant neighborhoods in Athens,
1912
01:42:13,253 --> 01:42:16,464
you will see a lot of Antetokounmpos.
1913
01:42:17,173 --> 01:42:19,384
Maybe they won't be famous or rich,
1914
01:42:21,261 --> 01:42:23,888
but all of them believe
that they can do it now.
1915
01:42:24,889 --> 01:42:26,558
[kids chanting] Antetokounmpo!
1916
01:42:26,558 --> 01:42:34,440
Antetokounmpo!
1917
01:42:34,440 --> 01:42:37,652
[indistinct chatter]
1918
01:42:38,820 --> 01:42:41,656
[boy in Greek]
Giannis, one photo please.
1919
01:42:41,656 --> 01:42:44,826
[indistinct chatter]
1920
01:42:55,003 --> 01:42:56,588
[speaking Greek]
1921
01:42:59,382 --> 01:43:01,342
[in English]
Hey, hey. The president arrived.
1922
01:43:01,759 --> 01:43:02,760
The president.
1923
01:43:04,095 --> 01:43:05,513
No, it's very hard to get here.
1924
01:43:05,513 --> 01:43:06,723
- What?
- It's very hard.
1925
01:43:06,723 --> 01:43:07,765
It's very hard.
1926
01:43:08,558 --> 01:43:09,767
How you guys feel, man?
1927
01:43:09,767 --> 01:43:11,019
How do you feel, man?
1928
01:43:11,019 --> 01:43:14,898
[Giannis] I'm happy
that I can pin these guys down.
1929
01:43:16,190 --> 01:43:17,984
Play some basketball for once.
1930
01:43:17,984 --> 01:43:20,528
This is amazing.
If we was playing basketball on a court
1931
01:43:20,528 --> 01:43:22,864
like this when we was younger, we'd feel
like we was on the top of the world.
1932
01:43:22,864 --> 01:43:25,700
I changed my shot. I'm telling you,
everything is going straight now.
1933
01:43:25,700 --> 01:43:29,746
♪ No ordinary love ♪
1934
01:43:29,746 --> 01:43:31,998
What's your definition of your success?
1935
01:43:33,333 --> 01:43:35,793
For me, it's to be able
to provide for my family.
1936
01:43:37,795 --> 01:43:39,047
Ten years ago,
1937
01:43:40,048 --> 01:43:43,468
my definition of success
was putting food in my mouth.
1938
01:43:44,010 --> 01:43:45,261
He got two in a row.
1939
01:43:45,261 --> 01:43:47,180
He got three in a row.
1940
01:43:47,180 --> 01:43:50,433
Steps to success always,
always, always, always.
1941
01:43:51,184 --> 01:43:52,435
But... hey.
1942
01:43:52,435 --> 01:43:53,895
Hey, I'm proud of you guys.
1943
01:43:53,895 --> 01:43:57,106
When we see ourselves
when we're 60, 70, we'll have no regrets.
1944
01:43:57,106 --> 01:43:58,900
Whatever comes as a family.
1945
01:43:59,984 --> 01:44:03,029
We are living and breathing our dream.
1946
01:44:04,781 --> 01:44:06,240
Who is it gonna be?
1947
01:44:07,033 --> 01:44:08,201
{\an8}- Yes!
- [laughs]
1948
01:44:08,201 --> 01:44:09,661
{\an8}Yes!
1949
01:44:09,661 --> 01:44:11,746
{\an8}["No Ordinary" by Labrinth playing]
1950
01:44:12,538 --> 01:44:15,500
{\an8}♪ I need you in my arm ♪
1951
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:17,502
{\an8}♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1952
01:44:25,009 --> 01:44:27,720
{\an8}♪ All this ♪
1953
01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:31,599
{\an8}♪ No ordinary love ♪
1954
01:44:33,351 --> 01:44:34,811
{\an8}♪ Yeah ♪
1955
01:44:36,312 --> 01:44:40,108
{\an8}♪ Your kiss, a sky... ♪
1956
01:44:40,108 --> 01:44:42,527
{\an8}[Giannis] I want to win
a medal for my country.
1957
01:44:43,361 --> 01:44:47,156
It's a challenge that
I haven't yet conquered.
1958
01:44:48,116 --> 01:44:50,493
{\an8}I gotta keep on going back until I do it.
1959
01:44:53,162 --> 01:44:54,580
[announcer] Grayson Allen.
1960
01:44:54,580 --> 01:44:56,791
Pump fake. Inside the lane.
1961
01:44:57,625 --> 01:45:00,211
{\an8}Miami has its upset.
1962
01:45:00,211 --> 01:45:02,964
{\an8}Number eight has upset number one.
1963
01:45:03,840 --> 01:45:06,300
{\an8}[reporter] Do you view
this season as a failure?
1964
01:45:07,635 --> 01:45:09,053
That's the wrong question.
1965
01:45:09,053 --> 01:45:10,930
There's no failure in sports.
1966
01:45:11,681 --> 01:45:13,016
Every year you work,
1967
01:45:13,016 --> 01:45:14,642
you work towards a goal.
1968
01:45:14,642 --> 01:45:17,061
To be able to, uh,
take care of your family,
1969
01:45:17,645 --> 01:45:20,398
provide a house for them,
or take care of your parents,
1970
01:45:20,398 --> 01:45:21,899
you work towards a goal.
1971
01:45:21,899 --> 01:45:23,276
It's not a failure.
1972
01:45:23,276 --> 01:45:24,736
It's steps to success.
1973
01:45:25,611 --> 01:45:27,280
There's good days, bad days.
1974
01:45:28,031 --> 01:45:29,991
Some days you are able
to, uh, be successful.
1975
01:45:29,991 --> 01:45:31,284
Some days you're not.
1976
01:45:31,284 --> 01:45:33,411
Some days it's your turn.
Some days it's not your turn.
1977
01:45:34,412 --> 01:45:35,830
We were able to win one.
1978
01:45:36,748 --> 01:45:38,332
Hopefully, we can win another one.
1979
01:45:39,250 --> 01:45:42,253
{\an8}[upbeat music playing]