“I don’t play basketball for the money, the fame; I only play because I wanted to change my family’s life,” Giannis Antetokounmpo says in the trailer for his upcoming documentary, Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, released by Prime Video on Wednesday.
The feature-length doc, set for release on Feb. 19, details Giannis’s family’s story beginning with his parents, Charles and Veronica Antetokounmpo, who immigrated to Greece from Nigeria in search of a better life for their family in 1991. Giannis, born in Athens, on Dec. 6, 1994, would make a similar choice when he officially made himself eligible for the 2013 NBA draft. On July 30, 2013, he signed his rookie contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he’s played for throughout his entire professional career, leading the team to their first NBA championship since 1971 in 2021.
The Marvelous Journey goes beyond the power forward’s professional highlight reel, though, painting a picture of an athlete with unfathomable resilience,...
The feature-length doc, set for release on Feb. 19, details Giannis’s family’s story beginning with his parents, Charles and Veronica Antetokounmpo, who immigrated to Greece from Nigeria in search of a better life for their family in 1991. Giannis, born in Athens, on Dec. 6, 1994, would make a similar choice when he officially made himself eligible for the 2013 NBA draft. On July 30, 2013, he signed his rookie contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, where he’s played for throughout his entire professional career, leading the team to their first NBA championship since 1971 in 2021.
The Marvelous Journey goes beyond the power forward’s professional highlight reel, though, painting a picture of an athlete with unfathomable resilience,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Photograph by Courtesy of Prime Video Prime Video has announced the upcoming release of Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, a feature-length documentary that chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of NBA mega-star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the very top of the basketball world. The documentary will premiere February 19 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Giannis: The Marvelous Journey is the latest addition to the Prime membership. Prime members in the U.S. enjoy savings, convenience, and entertainment, all in a single membership. The film is an intimate portrait of a global superstar and one of the NBA’s most dominating performers, a two-time league Mvp who led the Milwaukee Bucks to a championship in 2021. But his path began a world away from the spotlight, on the streets of Athens, where he was raised on the margins of society,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Doug Christie -- one of the players on Dennis Rodman's '14 basketball trip to North Korea -- says there's No Way he'd return ... unless LeBron James was involved. Christie -- along with Kenny Anderson, Vin Baker and other ex-NBA stars -- famously traveled to Pyongyang to play an exhibition game for Kim Jong-un. They called it "basketball diplomacy." But, Christie tells us the trip wasn't exactly peaches and cream -- saying, "I kissed...
- 6/18/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Dennis Rodman apologized Thursday for comments he made in North Korea about a detained American missionary, saying he had been drinking and was under pressure as he organized a game with former NBA players.
The former basketball star issued the apology through publicist Jules Feiler in an email message to The Associated Press, a day after he sang “Happy Birthday” to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the start of the friendly game.
Rodman has been slammed for not using his influence with Kim to help free Kenneth Bae, the missionary in poor health who is being confined in North Korea for “anti-state” crimes.
The former basketball star issued the apology through publicist Jules Feiler in an email message to The Associated Press, a day after he sang “Happy Birthday” to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the start of the friendly game.
Rodman has been slammed for not using his influence with Kim to help free Kenneth Bae, the missionary in poor health who is being confined in North Korea for “anti-state” crimes.
- 1/9/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
Dennis Rodman and a group of former NBA players are in North Korea to play basketball for Kim Jong Un’s birthday, being compensated for their appearances by one of the world's biggest despots. Today on CNN, Rodman had a major malfunction on camera. Kenny Anderson is one of the six former NBA players who accompanied Rodman on this trip with plans for a game against North Korean players on Wednesday — allegedly the birthday of the nation's leader, Kim Jong Un. Anderson is a father of seven kids with five different women. Also along for the trip was Cliff Robinson, Vin Baker, Sleepy Floyd, Doug Christie and Charles D. Smith. What they're making on this trip is a mystery,...
- 1/8/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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