On the decisions he made during the pandemic and confinement, as well as thoughts on retirement, the John Antetokounmpo in an interview with New York Times.
“In the last three years they think I’ve made a big jump on the floor, I think I’ve made a 10x jump off the floor“, said his two-time MVP characteristically NBA.
It started in the spring of 2020, when everything was closed due to the corona virus pandemic and it was uncertain what would happen with payments and contracts. So, he started thinking about alternative ways of income. “We were sitting at home and I thought now what?he said. “Without basketball, what do I have?he added. He then downloaded a stock market app and started investing for the first time in his life.
A little while later came the 5-year contract worth 228 million dollars with the Bucks but even then he felt “numb”, as if something was wrong. He told his team that he wanted to quit basketball.
He had felt that way again in his first year in the US, when he missed his family and pushed the Bucks to bring them to the city of Milwaukee. “When I moved after the draft in 2013, I was in a hotel and I felt alone for the first time in my life“, explained the 28-year-old Stags star.
Edited by: Maria Sarafoglou
Source: Sport Fm
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