The National Basketball Association announced today that Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo has been named the Kia NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Month for games played in March. The award is the first of Antetokounmpo’s career and the first for a Buck since Michael Redd won the award in January of 2004. Antetokounmpo joins Redd, Terry Cummings (January 1985) and Sidney Moncrief (December 1981) as the only four Bucks players to be named Eastern Conference Player of the Month.
Antetokounmpo averaged 22.4 points (.514 FG%), 8.4 rebounds, 4.9 assists, 1.8 blocks and 1.4 steals per game during the month while leading the Bucks to a 14-4 record.