Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo, the Greek brothers who helped the Milawaukee Bucks to their first NBA championship in 50 years last month, promised to take their trophy back to Sepolia, the run-down Athens neighbourhood where they grew up.
Born in Greece to Nigerian immigrant parents, the Antetokounmpo brothers had to sell trinkets on the street to get by. They grew up fearing deportation and did not obtain Greek citizenship until 2013.
"It's an incredible thing. We don't know how many days we'll stay, but we definitely want to take it back to Sepolia and the places we grew up." The brothers' extraordinary rise from Sepolia to the NBA has seized the imagination of the whole of Greece, where basketball normally trails football in popularity.
"This journey has been crazy. If you told me eight years ago that I'd be in this position, along with Thanasis, and we'd have the NBA trophy with us, and that we can take it anywhere we wanted, I'd say you're crazy," he said.
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