NBA All-Star Saturday night gets underway with a new three-team Skills Challenge featuring "Team Rooks," "Team Cavs" and "Team Antetokounmpo," a three-man squad featuring brothers Giannis, Thanasis and Alex Antetokounmpo.
By now we know Giannis, who continues to forge his path towards all-time greatness and his older brother Thanasis, who has been a serviceable NBA player during his last three seasons with the Bucks, but what about Alex?
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Not to be confused with Kostas, who won an NBA title with the Lakers in 2020, Alex is the youngest of five Antetokounpmo brothers and is halfway through his first season with Raptors 905 of the NBA G League.
So, who is Alex Antetokounmpo? Learn more about the youngest member of the Antetokounmpo family.
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Background
Alex Antetokounmpo was born on Aug. 27, 2001, in Athens, Greece.
At the age of nine, Alex began playing basketball in Greece. When Giannis was drafted by the Bucks in 2013, Alex and his family moved to the United States, where he began attending middle school in Whitefish Bay, Wis.
Prep basketball career
While Giannis blossomed into a superstar with the Bucks, Alex enrolled at Dominican High School in Whitefish Bay, where he played basketball for all four years.
By the time he was a sophomore, Alex grew to 6-foot-8 and began to dominate.
Alex Antetokounmpo was a two-time all-state selection in Wisconsin and averaged 20 points and seven rebounds per game as a senior at Dominican High School.
He passed up on scholarship offers from Division 1 DePaul, Ohio and Wisconsin-Green Bay to return to Europe, where he began his professional career with UCAM Murcia of the Spanish ACB League.
Pro career
While with UCAM Murcia, Alex Antetokounmpo had standout performances with the club's reserve team.
He saw two minutes of action in one ACB League contest.
Following the 2020-21 season, Alex declared for the 2021 NBA Draft.
Despite earning workouts with a few teams, Alex Antetokounmpo went undrafted in 2021 but earned a spot with the Sacramento Kings in the Las Vegas Summer League, averaging 10.3 minutes over three games.
In October of 2021, Alex signed an Exhibit 10 Training Camp contract with the Raptors, who then waived him in order for him to join their G League affiliate, Raptors 905 for the 2021-22 season.
So far, Antetokounmpo has appeared in 18 games with Raptors 905 in the 2021-22 G League season.
