Giannis Antetokounmpo is an NBA Star and MVP candidate, but he was not always this good.
In fact, Giannis could not make a layup when he entered high school basketball, so how
did he make the NBA?
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Today I wanted to talk about the time Giannis Antetokounmpo could not make a layup in high
school basketball and his path to an NBA Star.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo was just a tall lanky 13 year old.
He had played soccer his whole life and dabbled in basketball.
Going into high school, Giannis was looking for a way to help his family.
Giannis Antetokounmpo was born and raised up in Athens, Greece.
His family was poor and they struggled mightily.
His parents had immigrated from Nigeria looking for a new life.
Some days they would starve, other days Giannis and his brother would sell items and help
make money to get food.
While i don't want to make this about Giannis's whole life, just know that Greece was having
an economic decline and immigrants were getting pushed out.
Giannis cared deeply about his family and just wanted to do something, anything that
would allow him to get his family out of Greece.
Because he was tall and physically gifted, he tried out basketball.
A junior basketball club coach, Spiros Velliniatis, saw Giannis play basketball and thought, How
has no one discovered this kid yet?
It was not Giannis's skill that impressed him, it was his character and physical gifts.
Velliniatis would say that "Giannis could not make a layup and he could not dribble,".
Just think about that, Giannis couldn't make a layup when he got to high school.
He couldn't dribble, he couldn't play basketball.
So Velliniatis asked Giannis to join his club.
This was kinda like high school basketball for the area since the youth club was 18 and
under.
He only agreed to play because the club offered to find his parents jobs so that they could
earn money.
His first season on this club was just getting him acclimated with the basics of the game.
His father was a professional soccer player in Nigeria and his mom was a high jumper so
Giannis had been blessed with some great genetics.
His father helped Giannis and his brother train along with Coach Velliniatis and Giannis
quickly learned the game of basketball and fast forward 2 years, he was beginning to
put on a show.
More importantly, Giannis was a tough kid that was willing to always put in work.
He had this goal of making the NBA and wanted to provide for his family.
In his last junior club game, he scored 50 points and had a lot of Greek senior clubs
interested in him playing for their team.
He had also grown to 6' 9".
Giannis signed to the Filathlitikos senior club when he turned 18 and was earning money.
He had to travel away from his family and have a set schedule to follow.
Giannis worked even harder, pushing himself.
Although he didn't have a great year statistically, everyone saw potential in him and fans loved
him for the highlights he produced.
After just one year of playing with this team, he received serious offers from other teams,
even one in Spain, but NBA scouts had saw Giannis Antetokounmpo play thank to Velliniatis
pulling some connections and fell in love with him and his potential.
Giannis was still playing point guard at this time and after hearing all the excitement
for the NBA, he made himself available for the draft and in the 2013-2014 NBA draft,
the Milwaukee Bucks selected Giannis with the 15th pick.
The rest is history.
Giannis kept the same hardwork attitude and this season is in the NBA MVP conversation.
Each year he has gotten better and has come a long way from not being able to being able
to make a layup to now being an NBA star.
But what do you think?
Is Giannis the NBA MVP?
Will he keeping getting better?
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