mimilogistics:
Great guy; keep making Nigeria proud

Magnifico2000:
Nigeria has lot it. Everyone is trying to leave this country.
He even changed his name to atetokounmpo instead of Adetokunbo. Our past and present leaders have failed us.
God help us.

Magnifico2000:
Nigeria has lot it. Everyone is trying to leave this country.
He even changed his name to atetokounmpo instead of Adetokunbo. Our past and present leaders have failed us.
God help us.

rusher14:
Adetokunbo.

johndoexxx:


Always claiming. Who respect Nigeria? People are shamed of this zoo country, so is Giannais. Have you ever heard him utter Nigeria? SMH

NaijaCelebrity:
Son Of Former Nigerian Basketball Player, Charles Antetokounmpo Wins 2019 NBA MVP award

Giannis Antetokounmpo the son of former Nigerian association football player, Charles  Antetokounmpo  beat out Paul George of Oklahoma City and James Harden of Houston, who won last year.

Antetokounmpo was a resounding winner. He received 941 points and 78 first-place votes in the balloting — 165 points more than Harden.

Harden finished second with 776 points and 23 first-place votes.

"MVP is not about stats and numbers, and obviously James Harden had unbelievable numbers and Paul George also, but obviously it’s about winning," Antetokounmpo said backstage. "We created great habits throughout the season and were able to stick by them, and that’s why we were able to have a chance in every single game we played and were able to win 60 games."

The show had an international flair, with three international players besides Antetokounmpo winning.

Antetokounmpo averaged 27.7 points and 12.5 rebounds while earning All-NBA first-team honours this season, his sixth with the Bucks. He led the franchise to the best record in the regular season and the Bucks reached the Eastern Conference finals.

Tears rolled down his cheeks as Antetokounmpo thanked his mother Veronica and brothers in the audience at Barker Hanger. He credited his late father for pushing him toward his goals and his teammates and coaching staff for their help.

"We started from nothing as a family," he said, "and we are going to be in every stage that we can be as a family."



Source: https://gidifeed.com/son-of-former-nigerian-basketball-player-charles-antetokounmpo-wins-2019-nba-mvp-award/

Magnifico2000:
Nigeria has lot it. Everyone is trying to leave this country.
He even changed his name to atetokounmpo instead of Adetokunbo. Our past and present leaders have failed us.
God help us.

hakeemhakeem:



that is the Greek spelling bro

johndoexxx:


Always claiming. Who respect Nigeria? People are shamed of this zoo country, so is Giannais. Have you ever heard him utter Nigeria? SMH

razy75:
Nigeria Amaka

crazyABO:
Lol Nigerians like to attach sha his not Nigerian by birth just by blood if he was in Nigeria he wouldnt have probably won that, when everything is about favoritism

Lucid1:
He for kukuma carry Greek surname than to insult us with that remix of Adetokumbo,

what the hell is "Antetokounpo" in Greek


Congratulations to him, He'd have been a BEAST if he he could shoot beyond the paint

Starboytwo:
Yeah I was there live


2 years ago I said to him, Tokunbo you have to work hard,if you do na you get this balon d'or, Ronaldo and messi don dey grow, neymar no serious, mbappe na only run him Sabi and pogba, hmmm forget that one....

Now I have been vindicated, tears of joy are flowing all over my body....

forgiveness:
The third basketballer of Nigerian heritage to win it after Kareem Abdul Jabber and Hakeem Olajunwon.

forgiveness:
The third basketballer of Nigerian heritage to win it after Kareem Abdul Jabber and Hakeem Olajunwon.

Nostradamus:
abdul Kareem jabber? Lew Alcindor??is that dude a Nigerian??

abbey621:


Error - Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.(Kareem) is no Nigerian.

martineverest:
Adetokunbo has been greek-cised to ' antetokounmpo' just because of greeek citizenship....na wao

Magnifico2000:
Nigeria has lot it. Everyone is trying to leave this country.
He even changed his name to atetokounmpo instead of Adetokunbo. Our past and present leaders have failed us.
God help us.

So the passport officers made a mistake in speaking his name and he continued bearing that name. It is fine. I wonder what my Greek name would be.

forgiveness:


Quote from the horses mouth

Abdul-Jabbar has spoken about the thinking that was behind his name change when he converted to Islam. He stated that he was "latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Muslims. My family was brought to America by a French planter named Alcindor, who came here from Trinidad in the 18th century. My people were Yoruba, and their culture survived slavery... My father found out about that when I was a kid, and it gave me all I needed to know that, hey, I was somebody, even if nobody else knew about it. When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. And that's a terrible burden on black people, because they don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."

johndoexxx:


Always claiming. Who respect Nigeria? People are shamed of this zoo country, so is Giannais. Have you ever heard him utter Nigeria? SMH

abbey621:


90% of African Americans born in America don't really know their heritage. Where does Trinidad & Yoruba mix? Here's another quote from him "My forebears were Yoruba people, from present day Nigeria". He said he learnt this from his father and he learned from his father but there is no proof. Nigeria being the most popular and dominating demographics of Africans in the USA, it's no wonder DNA analysis and research shows basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabar and the famed Harvard historian, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. are descendants of Yorubas but how confident are you in DNA research that shows that a person is 10 to 15% Nigerian and likely Yoruba?

BanevsJoker:

It was misspelled on his Greek passport I think. Rather than correct the name, he chose to keep it.