On the concrete courts of Sepolia, an immigrant community in Athens where the Antetokounmpo family grew up nearby inside a minuscule apartment, Alex’s earliest memory of basketball was the supercharged and fiercely contested battles with his older brothers when he was eight years old.
Being the youngest of five siblings, and carrying a small frame, Alex Antetokounmpo took his lumps on the court. He also pushed back. If one went hard, he would push harder. No one would back down. Instead of crashing into each other to fight for ultimate bragging rights, the sibling rivalry existed to make each other better.