What does it take to be probably the greatest gamers within the NBA?
Apparently it is placing scorching sauce in your knees proper earlier than tipoff.
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No less than that is what works for Milwaukee Bucks’ celebrity, Giannis Antetokounmpo.
And by scorching sauce, he means Icy Sizzling.
“I put scorching sauce on my knees,” Antetokounmpo advised ESPN, however then clarifies.
“It isn’t scorching sauce. It’s Icy Sizzling.”
Only a slight distinction.
Antetokounmpo goes to the coaching room precisely 22 minutes earlier than tipoff of each sport to place Icy Sizzling on his knees.
That’s often the final step of his pregame routine. A routine that he follows religiously. A routine that begins six hours earlier than tip.
After morning shootaround, on the day of a sport, the two-time MVP and NBA champion will return to his home and nap for nearly three hours.
“If I do not take a nap, I can not play,” Antetokounmpo mentioned.
After his nap, he’ll head again to the sector, and partake in quite a lot of stretches and comfortable tissue work, then will hit the courtroom for his rigorously detailed taking pictures routine and script.
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In any case of his heat ups are completed and he head backs to the locker room, Antetokounmpo will go get his Icy Sizzling.
Or as he likes to name it, his scorching sauce.
Everybody on the Bucks is aware of Antetokounmpo’s pregame routine, particularly Kris Middleton.
The Bucks small ahead has been teammates with Antetokounmpo for 11 years, the whole lot of Antetokounmpo’s profession.
He is aware of his routine just like the again of his personal hand.
“His routine is excessive,” Middleton mentioned.
“I do know the place he’s going to be each second earlier than the sport. Once you see him not doing that, you notice one thing is unsuitable.”
Fortunately for Middleton and the Bucks there hasn’t been a lot to fret about in terms of Antetokounmpo’s play on the courtroom.
He’s as soon as once more having an MVP degree 12 months, which comes as no shock contemplating his physique of labor.
Milwaukee is at the moment 11-9 after a sluggish begin to the season, good for fifth within the Jap Convention.
Antetokounmpo is in pursuit of his second NBA championship and appears primed to take action.
All it will take, is a few scorching sauce and a few naps.