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Giannis Antetokounmpo On Post-Basketball Career: “I Want To Disappear… Like Tim Duncan”
At age 27, Giannis Antetokounmpo has built up quite a resume highlighted by an NBA championship, an NBA Finals MVP, two Most Valuable Player of the Year awards, a Defensive Player of the Year honor, and six NBA All-Star appearances.
The Greek Freak is part of every conversation regarding the best player in the world. And while he’s incredibly humble and just wants to be a regular person, he has become a global superstar – aside from Sweden maybe.
In an interview with Sirius XM Radio, Giannis now talked about his post career plans and revealed that after he’s done playing, he just wants to disappear and go somewhere, where no one knows him.
“When I retire from this game, I want to disappear. I want to go somewhere where they’re not going to know me,” he added and further told the story. I went to Sweden two years ago and nobody knew me there. When I left, everybody was like, ‘Was that Giannis?’ I made this YouTube video with one of my friends, and I was yelling in the streets, ‘Nobody knows me over here, yeah!’
And everybody was turning around, looking at me like, ‘Who the hell is this crazy guy?’ And then we just kept walking, they didn’t even know me. I was eating hot dogs, walking, sitting on the street, and nobody bothered me, which is fun.
You see MJ, you see Magic, and those all-time greats who are retired but people still know them and follow them up. I don’t think I can do that. I want to be like Tim Duncan. Where the hell is Tim Duncan? Forget about me. I want to play the game, and then you forget about me. You don’t talk about me, leave me alone.”
