Thank The Basketball Gods Giannis Didn’t Quit The NBA After This Rookie Year
More and more info from the new Giannis book is coming out. It is something that I will have to read soon. It almost motivates me to finish the books that I currently have. I would love to become a reader. I just barely have enough time to binge television shows. That’s how bad it is right now. Maybe things will slow down post-wedding, but right now, it’s crazy. We discussed the Jason Kidd stuff yesterday, and today, there was a look at how Giannis planned to quit if his family didn’t make it over here. This was from the author Miriam Farber.
He was without his family because they couldn’t get the proper visas. They got denied twice to come to America. He felt so lonely to the point where his brother told me, Alex, that Giannis told his family. If you guys can’t come over here, I’m leaving. I’m going back to Greece. Imagine if he would have left, there would be no Giannis, there would be no Greek Freak. He was really close to that, it was really painful & hard,” Fader added.
Could you imagine Giannis quitting basketball? Seriously. Or if Giannis stepped away then later, he came back, and maybe the Bucks had traded his rights. That would have been an all-time bad Bucks move. Thankfully, Giannis was able to have his family in the states, and they all joined him. Now Alex and Kostas are doing their own thing with basketball, it has to be nice to still have Thanasis and his mom around.
Charlie.