Giannis in the win: 35 points, 20 assists and 17 rebounds on 73% TS, along with 2 steals.
Bucks vs. 76ers (Apr 3, 2025) Box Score - ESPN
The most unanimous 3rd place MVP ever
He might actually get 100% of the third place votes lol
Random ass voter from boston is gonna say fuck it and give it to tatum
Sabonis about to get a stray MVP vote
Sabonis, that non all star?? /s
Bill Simmons has made the argument for Tatum on his podcast. He’ll get 3rd place votes
When? Tatum would have deserved to be 3rd before March, when he’d played a significantly higher percentage of the games and the gap in play hadn’t ballooned to what it is now.
Not for the 3rd place. Afterall Simmons will say who he voted for, so we will know.
Boston Media Mafia will funnel plenty of 3rd place votes to Tatum. They got Smart a DPOY.
Yup, should have been Jrue’s DPOY and the irony is Boston never gets that ring without him instead of Smart lmao
You forgot the dummy giving LeBron a 3rd place vote!
That one Nets’ beat writer from Long Island is gonna’ give his third place vote to Tyler Herro. This will be after he votes for Jrue Holiday #2 because he was the missing piece the Celtics needed and Anthony Davis #1 because he was valuable enough to one person to justify trading Luka.
been top 4 in MVP for like 7 years now a great all time run
The MVP discussion basically being a two-horse race this season should not distract you from the fact that Giannis is still him
Yes it’s the hospital sixers, but still a fantastic game
Yeah well the Bucks are basically the geriatric hospital Bucks right now outside of Giannis.
A healthy Bucks isn’t that great outside of Giannis tbh
The entire roster is a dumpster fire even with Dame healthy and playing.
This is true if you think 2/3rds of the league is a dumpster fire lol
…I mean…
I mean…
looks at the east
looks at the the west
I mean not exactly 2/3rds but it’s close
Eh, looking at the back half of the NBA it really is.
Absolutely. Definitely super happy to gain roster flexibility at the deadline so they can help re-tool around him for the foreseeable future.
A lot don’t realize how vital that Kuzma deal was, and the cap flexibility it’s going to help create. But this year? Dumpster fire roster.
That’s why always cracks me up when ppl think he’s gonna be dealt, when Mil is signaling the complete opposite of that.
Edit: To clarify, roster actually isn’t “that bad.” But the circumstances and bad luck have lead to the team trotting out being quite a mess. Not having Dame, Bobby, and Sims has hurt quite a bit. A lot of teams dealing with it no doubt though as well.
this is just not founded in reality. same as people who act like the nuggets are trash other than jokic
It’s only a two horse race because for whatever reason the media has decided two is enough for Giannis
It’s a two horse race because the Bucks are 5th/6th in the east and haven’t won a single game against the top 3 seeds. Giannis is great and should be 1st team All NBA but if Jokic or SGA had the same record with basically zero signature wins (IST game doesn’t count) they wouldn’t be the favorites either
I think recent MVPs show that conference seeding/record is no longer a major factor in who receives the award.
76ers so ass they stopped him from having another 30/20/20 game this season imagine if it went to OT lmaooo
It’d delay Giannis from getting home and starting work on baby #5
If you’re going to OT with the 76ers wtf is wrong with you
brother they were up by double digits on us i was gonna cry
That first quarter was wild.
We have $70M in cap space sitting on the bench. I mean the sixers are also the same but yeah… that’s what’s wrong with us right now.
In context that would be like you guys missing Mobley, Allen and Garland for a combined cap hit of 67M still less than the Bucks are missing in Dame and BP (69M). We’re barely healthier than the Sixers themselves, the only difference is Giannis has been healthy so he can solo carry.
We have $70M in cap space sitting on the bench
This might’ve been a good excuse if you didn’t look at how much money the Sixers have sitting on their bench lmao
They’re missing their 5 highest paid players and a whopping $148 million of payroll lmao that’s literally more than the salary cap this season 😭😭
Yeah out of all the teams to complain about this about lol
lol money is not always equal you can’t just choose players with the same total contract value and be like: it’s the same
I mean yeah obviously in a heart beat id trade Dame/BP for Allen/Mobley/Garland. But the fact of the matter remains we have 40-50% of our entire rosters value out so idk why your judging ur for almost going to OT. Any team missing 50% of their cap space is going to struggle.
As much as you like to toot Jokic’s horn you really think he’d be doing so hot if Murray, Gordan, Westbrook and nnaji were all out.
Also we didn’t even go to OT! Lmaoo, it was a good performance idk why y’all gotta try and trash it. Jfc. Jokic stans man, most annoying fanbase in the league, can’t stand anyone else having a good game.
I’m not even a Bucks fan but honestly, you’re not wrong. I find myself having to defend that man from the Jokic fans wayyyy more than I should have to.
Like why can’t they both be at/near the top? Some guy tried telling me Jokic is light years ahead of GA. Like, really?
I’m a Wizards fan, but it’s ridiculous how they talk about your guy, which legitimately is starting to get me to root for him.
We were beating them for a while lmao
I stand by my statement regardless
Not every team has the Cavs depth
40/20/20 could have been a reality.
Should have stopped playing defense so they could go to OT smh
Or double OT for that matter
Sixers so ass yet Giannis still had to play 40 mins for bucks to win…
Because the bucks without giannis on the court are even more ass, look at the beginning of the game
It’s more because Brook got into foul trouble and Giannis is the only other big that’s not hurt or suspended.
Unless we were going to play Kuzma at the 5, there wasn’t much of a choice.
Wdym another? It would be his first 30/20/20, no?
a month ago there had never even been a single 30/20/20 game in nba history lmao.
jokic is the only one to ever do that
This has to be in the running for the best game of his career
35 points on 12-19 shooting, 10-11 free throws, 17 rebounds, career high TWENTY assists to TWO turnovers
And those assists weren’t basic either, he looked like Jokic at times out there tonight
I’d still take his Game 6 against the Suns, but yeah it ranks up there fs.
Oh yeah I meant the regular season. If we include the context of the postseason, game 6 vs the Suns is probably a top 10 game of all time
50 points to close out the Finals. Hitting clutch mid rangers on the biggest stage before he became the mid range demigod that he is today.
Dawg he went unconscious from the free throw line too. Dude blacked out.
Really? I only saw the first and last FTs he took and he missed both. What’d he do? Make 17 in a row in between lol yeah right
That remains one of my favorite NBA games of all time
I mean yeah it was good cuz of context obviously (being the shutout game), but if we’re being real game 5 was a much more exciting game. Insane shooting from both teams (Suns went 55/68/90 and lost somehow), great overall team performances from both teams (88 combined points in a balanced effort from the Bucks’ “big 3” (27-29-32), Suns with all five starters in double digits and a 40pt game from Booker), and an absolutely ICONIC ending with huge plays on both ends from the Bucks (Holiday with the steal from Booker, ripping it straight out of his hands and throwing a half court lob to Giannis for the OOP!!). Game was honestly such a fucking banger, wish more people appreciated it haha 😅
people bring up the 50-piece a lot, and I love it
but people never mention how we were down 0-2 in that series before he came back from injury and willed us to 4 straight wins
too bad it was against the suns and not the lakers, would be almost universally regarded as the best playoff series ever if it was
Bro I was already such a huge Giannis fan before that series. Like when he was drafted I’d watch from afar thinking he would become the next KD back when he was a skinny finesse player (wishing Boston drafted him). And then years later to see him achieve legend status in realtime in that series was special. Fuck I loved that series.
that series justified a lifetime of hardcore basketball fandom for me
was poetic
Yeah besides games 1 and 3 all those games were decided by 10 points or less, absolute banger of a series. Giannis had so much impact too and 3 b2b2b memorable games with: game 4 block, game 5 dunk and game 6 50 piece.
Ive become a suns defender bc that team was underrated
they were a great team!
Free throw demigod
50 points 12 boards and 5 fucking blocks
And it was like 5 different type of blocks. Like he had his classic chase down on bridges, a post block on Ayton, a one on one monster block on Booker. It was a defensive masterclass that was amazing outside of dominant offensive game.
I’d take that game, his game 5 vs the Celtics in 2022 and one other im forgetting
The 64 point regular season game against the Pacers last year. Ballgate
Didn’t he have an insane game against the KD Nets that same year as the finals run? The toe game?
40/13/5 on 15⁄24 shooting in game 7
Edit: in the finals, he had 42/12/4 in game 2 and 41/13/6 in game 3, shooting 15⁄22 and 14⁄23 in those games
He avg like 33⁄15. Just overshadowed by kd’s extra insane-ness in G5 and 7.
Considering the circumstances, I’m guessing no game will come close to how he absolutely took over.
In the running for best game this season but his best game will always be his 50 point masterclass in the finals.
Sure, until he time travels back to 1975 and obliterates Wilt’s scoring record
Not sure 250 though. Maybe like 238.
No I completely disagree
Competition is THE starting block for best game of a player’s career. As a Charlotte fan I know it. LeBron and Melo both have their career highs against us and those dudes didn’t even really get out of 3rd gear, just got hot and kept shooting bc they knew they’d win anyways
True best performances ever require great opponents who force adaption, resilience, and performance under extreme pressure… not meaningless March games vs tanking teams
Yah bunch of other regular season Giannis games come to mind before this. #1 being 2019 against a great Philly team
52/16/7/2/1 with only 1 TO. That was in March and gave Giannis a boost en route to first MVP. He was pretty flawless that game.
Yea Lebron was right
Oakley said he’d be a 6th man lmfao
Oak can’t hold 34’s jock strap. Fuck, was Dolan right about him?!
No, Dolan is never right
He was about Oakley. Dude disrespected Ewing like he didn’t make his career (don’t talk to me about Jordan please no one thinks of Charles Oakley when they think Jordan)
Damn, the worst person you know made a good point
That’s so stupid bruh. Tired of these old resentful players.
love when these below mid nba old heads talk shit, oakleys best season he barley put up 14 ppg on under 50% shooting lmao giannis would average 40 and if oakley played in todays nba he would be a 15th man / barley playable
Most underrated player in the league
There was a tweet from one of those Muse accounts talking about how there’s only been 5 times where a player averaged 30/10/5 for a season, and 3 of them was Giannis, and he’s working on his 4th now. I’m trying to find the exact tweet or wording now so I probably got the main thing wrong, but overall it was pretty crazy.
Edit: Asked this on Statmuse cause I couldn’t find the Tweet. 30/10/5 has happened 10 times in NBA history, Giannis has 3 of them, and will have 4 by end of this season. Oscar Robertson and Wilt are the only others with 2.
Since 2017 he has been at least 27/10/5. He has two years right at 29.5/13/5 and 29.9/11/5 that just miss the cut. Basically 30/10/5 for 5 of the last 6 seasons.
certainly most underrated passer
This was better than Jokic’s game. More points in less time, and he actually plays defense
Way better than Jokic’s game
Jokic played 53 minutes and had 24 FTA(and he also should have fouled out)
They’re referring to Jokic’s 30/20/20 I believe
And he went OT in that game
He was also playing against a much better team than the Sixers who are missing like 5 of their 7 best players and are arguably the worst team in the league right now
Giannis > Shai.
yeah no shit, Shai still deserves MVP this year
It was against the Sixers missing like their whole team lol
Yeah I barely ever hear about this Antetoto guy
Everyone’s talking about this unreal triple double and not the 60/40/90 split to go along with it. Pure efficiency.
“NBA isn’t good anymore everyone just chucks 3s, nobody plays in the paint”
It’s crazy cuz this a legit complaint but some of those same folks will criticize Giannis’ style of play and call him bagless and shit lol
run and dunk man good
Without Dame, Giannis is returning to his 2019⁄20 point center version. It is gonna be fun to watch
Except he’s a much better player now, so it’s even more exciting
It’s extremely under appreciated just how much better Giannis is now than when he was winning MVPs.
Yup
You’ll never see anyone who’s not a bucks fan say it, but it’s obvious
IMO, and I know I’m in the minority, he’s still the best player in the world. The injury luck of the bucks has just been terrible since 2022.
I agree but I value defense a lot more than most people.
Most people nowadays don’t care about defense. Like at all. Zero. It’s so infuriating.
He has a highlight reel of just blocks.
He 100% is doing more than jokic would on the bucks and nuggets would have a better record with giannis there instead
I honestly don’t think either could do better with either team, but who knows.
and nuggets would have a better record with giannis there instead
There is no evidence for that whatsoever
Unfortunately not an OT game for him to get that 30/20/20
This won’t even make the front page, compared to the “BEST GAME EVAR” stuff about Jokic playing 45 mins vs Nick Richards and Mason Plumlee
I agree but to be fair Giannis was playing against guerschon yabusele and Adem bona tonight lmao
Respect Yabusele please. He’s good.
Yeah but Jokic had 22 against Mason Plumlee and Nick Richards, neither of whom i’ve ever seen play as well as Bona did tonight defensively.
Oh dear lord. Never change r/nba 😂
To be fair, I think Richards and Plumlee are better than the Sixers’ current frontcourt.
Sixers have like 2 actual nba players
this has like 100 upvotes in 5 minutes, please relax lmfao
it’s going to hit the front page, don’t you worry
Will get drowned out by LA-Warriors slop imo
it’s literally already 5th from the top
why is your ass hating and not appreciating greatness?
You tried pandering to the people who wanna play victim and still got cooked😭
It was still possible if played the last minute.
Fucking Sixers stopped missing in the last 3 minutes or so
After how he and the bucks started that 1st quarter i am absolutely shocked he got this statline. Goddam
Craziest part about this game is respect from gigglios
Lol I pray he and dame are healthy and avg 30 ppg each in the playoffs. Need to see it badly. I am down for a bucks run
So let it be written, so let it be done.
There is a point in almost game where giannis just gives like 6 min of full try hard mode, especially in losing situations. Its carried us to quite a few wins in dead game b/c his energy spurs on the rest of the team. The recent win in Sacramento is a perfect example of this.
20 assists for giannis is crazy and only 2 turnovers
Giannis records the first ever 35 point, 15 rebound, 20 assist game.
He’s always been a good passer
Exactly its just not how he normally plays game. Jokic is incredible but he also plays more of a facilitator role. If Giannis wanted to play to average more assists he absolutely could.
Edit: I’m not saying Giannis is better than Jokic at passing for all the Jokic stans who will see this and get mad.
I hate how nowadays we have to add extra comments to secure ourselves from the ire of absolute fucking idiots. Why are we subservient to them? Fuck them
He could average 10 a game if he played PG full time
20 assists is fucking crazy man. Giannis is wild
Tbh I didn’t expect it. I thought it would only be among Hali, Luka, Jokic, Trae. Giannis is so good
sorry 20 assists? was the philly defense that bad or were the bucks lights out?
Their defense for most of the game amounted to “See Giannis with ball, send everyone” and he was as good as he’s ever been passing out of the wall
There was a cross court pass out of the corner from a double team to Prince for a 3 that was sick
Giannis is a great passer and we don’t have our point guard. But yeah philly isn’t amazing
Giannis passing will always be underrated along with his handle
Giannis getting better at passing and mid range in his 30’s. He’s gonna age like Bron
Bucks might be mid but I’m very grateful to watch this man play for us.
I was feeling the same way about dame in 20 and 21. Dame was never even close to Giannis, but having a superstar is amazing.
20 assists is outrageous. More than LeBron has ever had in a game
Imagine if he was skilled
Better than Jokic tbh
People praised Jokic for dropping 34/19/7 in game 7 last year… but Giannis literally averaged that shit for a whole 7 games against the Boston defense in 2022
While playing defense too
Without Middleton too. We’ve seen how Jokic has done when Murray wasn’t there in the playoffs
Yeah, Without Murray, Jokic got swept in 2021 with an underwhelming performance and got gentleman’s swept in 2022
That tends to happen when teams don’t have their 2nd and 3rd best player.
That’s the point dude. Giannis was taking Boston to 7 and would have actually won if literally everyone else didn’t make enough bricks to make a mansion.
Pretty much a 30-20-20 game where is his mvp hype?
He did it in 6 less minutes than Jokic as well, thats half a quarter of game time. He could have legitimately gone for 40-20-20 if this went OT.
Lets not even bring up defense.
Jokic had 4 turnovers too
Wish he would’ve gotten the 30/20/20, but 13 assists feels wild for Giannis, let alone 20
Meh, you are underrating his playmaking, he has 13+ assists in a game 10 times, the same number of times Embiid cracked double digit assists, double the amount of KD 13+ assist games. Tatum has had double digit assists 14 times. Giannis played a whole season as an NBA starting pg, just because he transformed into the modern day shaq doesn’t mean he lost his guard skills
considering his career high even before was higher than that, why is 13 surprising?
Bc he averages 6 and I chose a random number in the teens
Yeah dame just handles the ball more and gets more assists but Giannis is a great passer
Really thought Brook was gonna whiff on assist #20 lol
This subreddit hates Giannis so they won’t even have this come close to the top of the page.
No Ja Morant shooting a gun gesture will be more popular after 1 day.
Best player in the league
Giannis Antetokounmpo, where do I even begin…
20 assists with just 2 turnovers too
Funny how people praised Jokic for dropping 34/19/7 in game 7 against the TWolves last year… but Giannis literally averaged that shit for a whole 7 games against the Boston defense in 2022 when he didn’t even have his best teammate and while playing miles better defense. Best player ITL
All time carry job
jokic got 3 more rebounds than this n it was the greatest offensive performance ever so what is this?
Wasn’t a round number = not impressive
Giannis more efficient too….and no OT
Call me a hater but this is more impressive than jokic’s 60 point triple double in OT considering he actually plays a significant role on defense as well
Give this man OT and he has a 40-20-20 game. This is the best game of the season that didn’t require OT.
Insane stat line with no OT
Give the man his MVP.
It’s crazy how little he is talked about.
The fuck is this easy mode 2k stat line?
Best player in the world!
He did it in 38 minutes by the way. Jokic’s 30/20/20 was in 44 minutes.
Greek Freak’s 2nd best game lwk
MVP
It might have been the greatest game of his career, which is crazy considering the 50 piece Game 6.
Nah, game 6 is much better due to the match, and his defence, and the clutch buckets and free throws. I’d argue his 64 pt game and the game earlier this season against the pistons are also better
Holy shit
Giannis had a legit case for MVP also. I mean he’s putting CRAZY offensive stats BUT is also one of the very best defensive players in the league! Come on! I wouldn’t mind one bit if ge got the MVP over Jokic and Shai
“Fine I’ll do it myself”
-Giannis upon learning Dame is out for the season
This is the best stat line in NBA history and it has 13k less likes than Fat Boy hitting a meaningless 3
Crazy with this kinda Stat line and won’t even win MVP
Holy shit, Giannis now has a higher career high in assists than LeBron??!
Single handedly won me my fantasy championship with this game 🙏
Giakola Antetokounmpokic
what an incredibly COMPLETE game. I don’t generally enjoy to watch Giannis’s game that much (tho I fully acknowledge that he’s an absolute monster), but I have to give him all of the props here. that is an unbelievable statline
That’s my guy right here
I looked up his career stats a month ago, season by season.
He was still peaking, putting up better stats every season. Amazing to see that he hasn’t slowed down at all and is still improving his game.
Giannis and Jokic gotta leave to make their own team together. I need the double double triple double
He’s basketball IQ is incredibly underrated, sure he’s athleticism gets a lot of praise but his court awareness especially with the rookies was so good. Past two games the bucks have shot extremely well and not over coaching him has been good to see.