Giannis just posted a wild timeline for the NBA’s all-time list
Most NBA fans would say that Milwaukee Bucks All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo he’ll be in the Hall of Fame when all is said and done, but in case there was any doubt, the 30-year-old has already paved the way for his scoring to elevate his overall legacy.
Giannis scored 29 points The Bucks defeated the Brooklyn Nets 116-99 on Saturday night. The corner 3 in the third quarter made him the 42nd player to score at least 21,000 points in the NBA, and he was certainly proud his latest achievement.
“I think when I was younger, a few years ago, I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s another day at the office. Let me do my job, go home,'” Antetokounmpo said. “But as you get older, you start to appreciate those moments. You don’t take it for granted,” Giannis told Eric Nemo of the Athletics.
“Coach Doc (Rivers) came in and told me there’s only 11, 12 players that have ever scored 21,000 points with one team in the history of the game, and you’re like, ‘Wow.’ Being a kid from Greece — from Sepolia, where I grew up in a small area where not a lot of, shall we say, great things happen there or come out — to be able to be on this stage and 13 years later to score 21,000 points, I am very grateful.
Giannis didn’t stop there. The nine-time All-Star also gave an optimistic timeline.
“I don’t think it’s another six, seven, eight years until I’m at the top of the scoring charts,” Antetokounmpo said. “I think it’s four more years in my opinion. Four, five years, 4 1/2 years.
“I think when I’m 35 years old and sitting in this chair, and we want to have a discussion about me being on the all-time scoring list, I would talk it into existence. And not just talk it into existence because I believe I will. That’s something I want to do.”
Giannis is the sixth youngest player to reach 21,000 points, and it sounds like he has more intentions.
2025-11-30 19:16:00
