Revealing his unusual diet, Giannis Antetokounmpo says he consumed only Oreos for a month: ‘No dinner, no lunch, no nothing. I got sick of them’
Giannis Antetokounmpo says he ate only Oreos for a whole month: “No lunch, dinner, or anything else. “I Was Tired Of Them.”
Giannis Antetookoumnmpo has a rough patch with the nation’s favorite cookie.
He told everyone on Twitter earlier this week how excited he was to learn that Oreos taste best when dipped in a cold glass of milk.
It was surprising that Giannis, who is 26 years old, didn’t already know this since it’s a well-known way to enjoy the popular snack.
The best part of the whole thing, though, was when Giannis later told the story of how he ate only Oreos for a month.
Giannis is 6’11” and has won two MVP awards, but it looks like even he can’t resist an Oreo fix.
He really has changed a lot over the last few years, showing us a different side of the Greek Freak than the one we see every day on the court.
This not only shows us that he likes to have fun, but it also helps us connect with him more deeply.
As for his play on the court, the five-time All-Star is once again showing why he is one of the best players in the NBA by scoring about 27 points and 11.7 rebounds per game while shooting 51%.
There’s no reason to think he won’t be able to keep up that level of play for the next few years as long as he stays away from the Oreos.
Most Valuable Player Antetokounmpo
This picture from Saturday, February 11, 2017, shows Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks reacting during an NBA game in Indianapolis between the Indiana Pacers and the Bucks. A very skinny and hungry kid named Antetonkoumpo used to a ball around in an open field in the Athens neighborhood of Sepolia. Now he is a player in the NBA All-Star Game. (AP photo by Dallas Cummings, file)
Greece — He was a skinny, hungry kid trying to make it in Sepolia, a poor area in Athens. His parents had moved there from Nigeria.
The club coach who saw Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brother playing soccer on a neighborhood field at age 13 says the NBA All-Star grew up being afraid of the cops and being sent back to his home country.
Antetokounmpo had only played a little basketball at that point; he was more interested in soccer.
Spiros Velliniatis says, “He couldn’t block shots or make layups.”
Velliniatis liked the teen’s character, though. He was determined and tough, and it showed.
Velliniatis said, “He was a champion before he was a basketball player.”
Kids from Athens now call the young man who was born there the “Greek Freak,” and he says Velliniatis helped him become famous.
“He was the one that gave us the opportunity to look at basketball, because me and my brothers were more focused on playing soccer because my dad was a soccer player,” he said.
Many people still have trouble pronouncing his name, but they know that the 6-foot-11, 22-year-old Milwaukee Bucks forward can play above the rim.
It was hard for Antetokounmpo and his bigger brother Thanasis to go to basketball practices when they were kids.
“I asked him about his parents and asked him if he would join my club if I could find work for his folks. “He said yes,” Velliniatis said.
Even so, it was still hard to get the Antetokounmpos to train with the club Filathlitikos, which was in a different neighborhood.
“We told ourselves, ‘We have to find a way to keep the kid on the court.’ This would be good for everyone,” says Panagiotis Zivas, the coach of Filathlitikos. “They were children, they did not understand they had to be consistently committed.”
The family didn’t have much, but strangers would help them out.
People like Giannis Tzikas, who owned a café and would sometimes make sandwiches for Giannis and his brothers to eat before game day.
“Some people said to me ‘why are you feeding the black kids?’” Tzikas said, adding that the responses made him want to help even more.
Antetokounmpo said, “He helped us a lot.” “Every day I would see him. He was a big fan of the national team and also did a lot to help my children.