Giannis Antetokounmpo: 5 Things To Know About NBA All-Star In Super Bowl Ad With Amy Schumer

• Giannis Antetokoumnpo is simply a guardant for the Milwaukee Bucks.
• He was conscionable named squad skipper for the 2023 NBA All Star game.
• The charismatic jock stars successful a hilarious Google Pixel commercialized alongside Amy Schumer for Super Bowl LVII.

Giannis Antetokoumnpo, 28, has already made himself rather a sanction successful basketball. Now, a star-studded Google Pixel advertisement acceptable to aerial during Super Bowl LVII volition assistance him footwear disconnected a vocation successful acting, arsenic well. Appearing alongside Train Wreck prima Amy Schumer and euphony icon Doja Cat, Giannis appears to beryllium hitting the adjacent level successful planetary fame, arsenic the charming commercialized shows the trio fixing their photograph mistakes with the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro’s Magic Eraser tool. As Giannis gears up for the advertisement to amusement during the biggest crippled of the year, here’s what other to cognize astir the NBA superstar and budding actor.

Giannis Antetokounmpo (John Bazemore/AP/Shutterstock)

He was calved successful Athens, Greece

Born Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo in December of 1994 successful Athens, Greece, to Nigerian parents, the imposing 7-foot-tall jock has since been nicknamed “Greek Freak” — due to the fact that galore had occupation pronouncing his formidable name. His singular tallness and outstanding skills arsenic a powerfulness guardant besides marked him arsenic an outstanding jock from the beginning. In immoderate case, it wasn’t an casual childhood. According to the New York Times, arsenic a younker helium helped merchantability items similar watches and sunglasses successful the streets of  Sepolia to assistance enactment his family, including his Nigerian migrant parents.

He yet took Greek citizenship astatine the property of 18.

He was mentored by the precocious Kobe Bryant.

Giannis became large by studying the greats earlier him. Per NBA.com, Kobe Bryant took him nether his helping to instill invaluable lessons that helped the younger jock emergence to the apical of the game. Unfortunately, that besides meant that Giannis was near with a deep consciousness of grief pursuing the stunning death of Kobe connected January 26, 2020.

“How did Kobe animate me? Just enactment hard, beryllium fearless, don’t truly attraction astir what radical person to accidental astir you, conscionable spell retired determination and bash your job, person a grin connected your face,” helium said conscionable days later, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “You’re going to person to sacrifice a lot, a batch of household time, obviously, to play this game, but your household knows wherefore you were enactment connected this Earth, wherefore you play this game, which is to supply for them due to the fact that that’s what you’re calved to do. Kobe means greatness. He ever had that smile, helium ever had that charisma that helium carried with him. I deliberation it touched a batch of radical successful the world.”

Giannis has athletics successful his blood.

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According to NPR, his precocious begetter Charles was a Nigerian shot (football) player, and his parent Veronica was a skilled precocious jumper. Clearly, helium was destined for greatness by genetics unsocial — and he’s grateful for the legacy. He reportedly wears the fig 34 for the Bucks successful grant of his parents, who were calved successful 1963 and 1964, respectively.

He acceptable a extremity for greatness.

In 2019, erstwhile helium was named the NBA’s MVP, helium opened up successful an affectional code astir however helium achieved the existent people of greatness successful the sport. And it turns retired helium had a beauteous circumstantial plan. “Two, 3 years ago, I had the extremity successful my head, that extremity [was] to beryllium the champion subordinate successful the league,” he said during the ceremonial successful Santa Monica, California. He besides credited his father’s unflappable enactment ethic for the honor.

“I’m going to bash immoderate it takes to triumph and I’m going to triumph MVP,” helium continued. “And each clip I measurement connected the floor, I deliberation of my dad, and that motivates maine to play harder and determination guardant erstwhile my assemblage is sore.”

Giannis has diversion brothers.

Not surprisingly, Giannis has siblings who besides excel astatine the sport. An older brother, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, plays for the Greek squad Panathinaikos, and younger member Kostas has played for the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers. Yet different brother, Alex Antetokounmpo, plays for the Wisconsin Herd successful the NBA-G league. His eldest brother, Francis, has besides played semi pro sports. 

“I privation to convey my astonishing brothers,” helium gushed implicit his siblings portion accepting the MVP award. “I emotion you guys.”

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