The reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, Giannis Antetokounmpo hasn’t peaked yet. After setting career-highs in just about everything last season, Antetokounmpo is continuing his career-long trend of increasing his numbers every single season.
Now in his seventh campaign, Antetokounmpo is on pace for career-highs in scoring (30.1 points per game), rebounding (14.1 per game) and assists (6.6 per game), while also averaging 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks in 33.0 minutes a night. And he has the Milwaukee Bucks atop the Eastern Conference once again, with a 12-3 mark that is the second-best record in the NBA.
Giannis is dropping 56.6 percent overall, but just 29.0 percent on a career-high 4.6 3-point attempts per game and his free throw shooting is a career-low 60.6 percent on a career-high 11.3 attempts a night — not an ideal combination.
He is still an elite finisher at the rim — converting 83.3 percent in the restricted area this season — but he’s taking fewer shots there (45.5 percent of his total attempts, down from 57.3 percent last season). However, Antetokounmpo has heated up from deep of late, hitting 34.8 percent over his last eight games, even after going 2-for-13 in his last two outings.