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Greektown Night in Chicago to Celebrate Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks

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Greektown Night will be held at the United Center in Chicago as the hometown NBS team the Bulls will host Giannis Antetokounmpo and NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks on March 4. Antetokounmpo and his brother Thanasis are seen holding the NBA trophy at the Parthenon this past August after the 2021 championship. Credit: Giannis Antetokounmpo/Facebook

Greektown Night will be celebrated on March 4 in Chicago during the basketball game with NBA champions the Milwukee Bucks and the Chicago Bulls.

Special commemorative hats will be available for all those who cheer as part of the Greek community of Chicago at the United Center. The city’s Greektown community state in a press release that it will be a “legendary group outing with the Chicago Bulls vs. Milwaukee Bucks” when the Greek Freak, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and his championsip team come to town for an epic matchup on the court.

Each ticket purchased will come with a very special edition Bulls/Greek hat, featuring a Bulls logo on the front and a Greek flag on the back. The hats and tickets are limited, so the Greektown organizers of the event urge everyone to get their tickets early. All tickets are available for purchase here.

Greektown Night perks include Bulls/Greek flag hats

The hats will be available at the table outside section 114 on the 100 Level concourse of the United Center. Hats will be available for pick up until the beginning of the second quarter of the game. Per United Center Covid-19 protocols, everyone must be fully vaccinated to enter the venue.

Organizers say everyone is invited to share the excitement of Bulls basketball and the appearance of the “Greek Freak” Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA Championship last July, with the Greek Freak winning the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for his efforts during the series.

Behind 50 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks from their superstar forward, the Bucks held off the Phoenix Suns to win the franchise’s first championship since 1971 on their home court.

They did so in front of a madhouse, sellout crowd of more than 17,000 fans inside Fiserv Forum — along with a truly remarkable 65,000 more fans assembled outside into the “Deer District” surrounding the building.

Antetokounmpo won the Bill Russell NBA Finals’ Most Valuable Player Award.

His 50 points were tied for the most all-time in a closeout game of the NBA Finals, per ESPN Stats and Information research, equaling Bob Pettit’s 50 points for the St. Louis Hawks at home in Game 6 of the 1958 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.

Antetokoumnpo and his basketball-playing brothers took their trophies to the top of the Acropolis in Athens to celebrate their epic win.

Antetokounmpo brothers proud to return to Greece

Speaking during a press conference at the airport in Athens in early August, the Antetokounmpo brothers expressed their pride at bringing the trophy back to Greece.

“We’re going to take it everywhere, to Sepolia, Zografou, to all the places we grew up in,” Giannis stated to the press.

“We aren’t going to stop. Our parents didn’t stop working. They worked constantly to feed us and to raise us. We got this from them. We will never stop working, just like our parents.”

 

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