When the Milwaukee Bucks showed up for training camp on Sunday, Khris Middleton presented his teammate Giannis Antetokounmpo with a gift for his 26th birthday: a pen. “Then I was thinking about it, and I realized he was wanting me to sign the contract,” he said. “I’ve got 20 pens here in my locker.”The problem is that Antetokounmpo has not used any of them for their intended purpose. He has until Dec. 21 to sign a so-called supermax contract extension that would be worth about $227 million and would run through the 2025-26 season. Waiting is the hardest part in Milwaukee, which has gone 49 years since the Bucks won their only N.B.A.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2020 19:30 UTC