When the Milwaukee Bucks drafted Giannis Antetokounmpo as the No. 15 overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, he wasn’t exactly a franchise-altering prospect. It took the 6-foot-11 forward a few years before he started dominating the league. At that point on, Antetokounmpo never looked back.
For former Bucks guard Michael Carter-Williams, he realized early on that Giannis was no ordinary player. In fact, the 32-year-old recently revealed the exact moment he knew that the rest of the NBA wasn’t ready for what Antetokounmpo was going to bring to the table.
Milwaukee Bucks News: Michael Carter-Williams Speaks Out on Giannis’ Potential

Carter-Williams joined the Bucks in the middle of the 2014-15 season after he was traded by the Philadelphia 76ers. At that point in time, Antetokounmpo was just in his second year in the NBA. Nevertheless, MCW already knew that this young man was special:
“It was crazy even watching Giannis play early on,” Carter-Williams said, via Jim Owczarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “He would have six to 10 plays where you’re like this is crazy. Those six plays turned into 15, turned into 20. Once he’s more consistent, it’s over, it’s a wrap (for the rest of the NBA).”
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Giannis and Jabari Parker

Apart from Giannis and Carter-Williams, another rising star on the Bucks roster during that time was Jabari Parker, who Milwaukee selected as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.
Naturally, there were some intense moments between Antetokounmpo and Parker during practice. There was one instance, in particular, that led Carter-Williams to believe that Giannis was truly “about to take over the league.”
“Jabari and Giannis going back and forth calling fouls,” Carter-Williams recalled. “I got pissed, you have to play ball, no more calling fouls. I snapped on them both. Once I said that, them two turned into two animals. I’m playing against them, they lower their shoulder. I probably shouldn’t have said no fouls. Then they started going at each other.”
The rest, as they say, is history.
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