The Milwaukee Bucks clambered aboard the team plane, a Delta charter departing from Wisconsin, where coronavirus cases were about to triple over the course of the NBA Finals. Players and essential support staff squirmed down the aisle of the Boeing 727, bound for Arizona, where 900 new cases would be confirmed on game day. It was July 4, 2021, and a franchise secret at the time, according to multiple officials familiar with the inner-workings of the Bucks, was that nobody outside of a small braintrust knew whether or not Giannis Antetokounmpo was vaccinated against Covid -19. The Delta variant was beginning to raise fresh hell. And the superstar's vaccine secret — combined with what a high-ranking official who was just outside the braintrust called "hiccups" from Bucks management — stoked fear among employees across the franchise: That the highly contagious strain might come for them all … but especially for the most dominant athlete in the world. "And that's when the outbreak happened," the high-ranking official tells Rolling Stone . Antetokounmpo was recovering from a knee injury at miraculous speed, right on time for Game One of a best-of-seven series against the Phoenix Suns. He seemed, to fans and followers… Read full this story
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