Giannis Antetokounmpo is battling an ankle injury.
What’s his status entering Bucks-Heat Game 5 tomorrow?
Officially he is listed as questionable. Shams Charania of Stadium provides more detail:
Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo is being listed as questionable for Game 5 and believed to be feeling similarly to before Game 4, sources tell our NBA Insider @ShamsCharania. pic.twitter.com/COVfRdSiht
— Stadium (@Stadium) September 7, 2020
There are two ways of spinning this:
- Antetokounmpo played Game 4. If he feels the same way entering Game 5, he’ll play that, too.
- Antetokounmpo aggravated his injury and left Game 4. That showed he shouldn’t have been playing in the first place while feeling like this – especially with the Milwaukee Bucks down 3-0 or even 3-1 now.
It seems Antetokounmpo is near the line of whether or not he’ll play. If he’s healthy enough, he will. But it’s a close call of whether he’ll be healthy enough.
