Milwaukee Bucks big name ahead Giannis Antetokounmpo left Game 1 of the Eastern Conference first-round playoff collection towards the visiting Miami Heat for excellent in the second one quarter Sunday after maintaining a decrease again contusion.
With Antetokounmpo unavailable for far of the sport, the top-seeded Bucks fell to the eighth-seeded Heat 130–117.
“There was an X-ray that was clear here,” Bucks trainer Mike Budenholzer mentioned, “so we’ll monitor him, see how he does (Monday).”
Game 2 of the collection is Wednesday evening in Milwaukee.
Antetokounmpo, a finalist for the league MVP award, fell to the ground laborious after being fouled with 4:13 left within the first quarter. He made some of the two resulting unfastened throws and stayed within the recreation earlier than going to the locker room with 1:46 left within the duration.
He re-entered the sport with 9:56 left in the second one quarter, however returned to the locker room lower than two mins later. Later within the quarter, Milwaukee introduced that it might no longer go back for the remainder of the evening.
“He just wasn’t moving, didn’t look comfortable, confident, so it felt like the right thing” to take away him, Budenholzer mentioned.
Antetokounmpo, a two-time MVP winner, had six issues and 3 rebounds in 11 mins.