Antetokounmpo to become one of Europe's best basketball exports ever

The sky is the limit for Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Greek guard who has swept the NBA and become Greece's best ambassador in the world, acknowledged even by outgoing US president Barack Obama.

The Greek basketball sensation of the Milwaukee Bucks received over 1.6 million votes to get into the starting five of the Eastern Conference at the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, the world's biggest basketball league announced late on Thursday, becoming the youngest ever foreigner to get into the Game's starters.

Besides becoming the first ever Greek to feature in an All-Star Game, Antetokounmpo, 22, is also the youngest ever Bucks player to make the All-Star Game starters beating the record set by legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Also known as The Greek Freak, or The Longest Name in the Game, Antetokounmpo is going from strength to strength in the NBA and his selection for the...