The status of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup is in peril as soon as once more as one other high-profile cager is reportedly unsure to take part.

Milwaukee Bucks famous person Giannis Antetokounmpo is uncertain to cost Greece within the upcoming World Cup within the Philippines as he’s coping with a leg damage, per SDNA’s Magic EuroLeague.

In response to the report, Antetokounmpo is set to play for his nation, however the Bucks are anticipated to bar him from touchdown on the earth championship except he’s totally wholesome.

Added by SDNA, the likelihood for the two-time NBA MVP to play within the World Cup stands at lower than 50 p.c for now.

Antetokounmpo additionally notably sustained a decrease again damage in Milwaukee’s first-round opener towards the Miami Warmth within the earlier Playoffs. The ache saved him for two-straight video games of the sequence, and finally impacted the membership’s historic meltdown over the Warmth, turning into simply the sixth first-seeded staff to break down in entrance of an eight-seed within the league’s historical past books.

Rui Hachimura (Japan) and 2023 NBA prime total choose Victor Wembanyama (France) have already declared their ineligibility to play for his or her respective basketball federations. In the meantime, the standing of Finals MVP Nikola Jokic stays but to be decided, as Joe Vardon of The Athletic has just lately relayed {that a} household celebration of the Denver Nuggets icon will collide with the schedule of the World Cup which is able to run by means of Aug. 25 to Sept. 10.

The Greeks are slated to grace the courtroom of Manila’s Mall of Asia Area as a part of Group C as they have been landed with the US, New Zealand, and Jordan.