page_title: Thanasis Antetokounmpo
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Thanasis Antetokounmpo / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Thanasis and Giannis Antetokounmpo at Sepolia, Greece, during a street basketball game
context_page_description: Athanasios Rotimi Antetokounmpo is a Greek professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. He is the older brother of the 2019 NBA MVP, Milwaukee Bucks All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo, as well as Los Angeles Lakers power forward Kostas Antetokounmpo. They are all of Nigerian descent.
context_section_description: Antetokounmpo was born in Athens, Greece, to Nigerian parents, and grew up in the Athens neighborhood of Sepolia. His late father, Charles, was a former Nigerian soccer player, while his mother, Veronica, is a former high-jumper. His parents are from different Nigerian ethnic groups—Charles was Yoruba, and Veronica is Igbo. He officially gained Greek citizenship on May 9, 2013, with the official legal spelling of his last name being Antetokounmpo. His oldest brother, Francis, is a professional soccer player.
  His younger brother, Giannis Antetokounmpo (b. 1994), was drafted 15th overall in the 2013 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. With Giannis known as "The Greek Freak", Thanasis was sometimes referred to as "Greek Freak 2", although his own nickname was "The Greek Streak". In addition, he's also the older brother of Kostas and Alexis, both of whom also trained with Filathlitikos. Antetokounmpo's mother gave each of her four sons born in Greece, both a Greek and a Nigerian name. Kostas is a member of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, while Alexis graduated from a Dominican High School.
  In 2017, during the EuroBasket tournament in Helsinki, in which the senior Greek national team was competing, he was nicknamed "The Elevator" by Greek basketball sportscaster Vangelis Ioannou, as well as by his younger brother, Giannis. This nickname was given to him due to his superb athleticism and jumping ability.
caption: Giannis and Thanasis playing basketball at a local court in Sepolia, Athens
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