4 brothers called up for the European Basketball Champion squad

NBA star Yannis Antetokounmpo and his three other brothers were called up on Tuesday to represent Greece in the European Cup and World Cup qualifiers this summer.

While Yannis and Thanassis play for the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA, the other two brothers Alex plays for the Wisconsin Heard in the J-League (the Bucks reserve team), and Kostas is a free player since the end of last season, which he played with Lyon-Villeurbanne. French.

Since 2014, 27-year-old Yannis has worn the Greek national team shirt 49 times, Thanassis (30) has made 39 appearances, and Kostas (24) ten caps, while younger brother Alex (20) will make his debut for his country.

The Greek team, the two-time European champion (1987 and 2005), which currently includes 23 players, including naturalized American Tyler Dorsey (Dallas Mavericks), will start next August, and will face Spain, Georgia, Poland and Turkey in friendly matches.

Then he will resume his campaign in the 2023 World Cup qualifiers, against Serbia on the 25th of the same month and Belgium on the 28th.

The European Cup will be held between the first and the eighteenth of September in Milan, Italy, where Greece fell in Group C along with Estonia, Ukraine, Britain, Italy and Croatia.

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