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Giannis Antetokounmpo 🙌
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Athens. Sepolia Mural art celebrating Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brothers Photo by Katy Fallon - @katymfallon
Giannis Tzikas was popping champagne bottles. Giannis Antetokounmpo had just led the Milwaukee Bucks to victory in the NBA final against the Phoenix Suns, and Tzikas was celebrating with a small group of youths, some of them donning basketball gear.
An emotional Tzikas, who once gave Antetokounmpo free sandwiches from his café and encouraged him to keep up his training schedule on nearby basketball courts, sang the praises of the NBA superstar.
“He doesn’t owe anybody a thing. He did it all himself,” said Tzikas.
In Sepolia, like in much of Greece, Antetokounmpo is helping restore a sense of national pride. The country’s sense of worth took a beating during its ten-year economic crisis that seemed to be just coming to an end when the coronavirus pandemic hit early last year.
The downturn nearly hurled the country into bankruptcy and sent hundreds of thousands of Greeks abroad to find work. With the unemployment rate still hovering around 17 percent, job prospects for many remain weak.
Now, the child of Nigerian migrants, who for the most part lived in the country illegally, Antetokounmpo is helping Greece recover some of its lost self-confidence.
He is inspiring many in Greece, with his story of beating the odds to reach the top. His climb from a life of poverty and selling trinkets on the streets to survive to winning the NBA final and being crowned MVP is seen in Greece as being a national success.
The story of a migrant in Greece, who is now a reporter and comes from the same neighborhood as Giannis. Article by Lidia Bajraktari in AthensLive
A few years ago if you asked the average Athenian to tell you what or where Sepolia is, they would probably reply “no idea”. In 2013, Sepolia became known not only to all Athenians but the wider public, and now, in 2019, the word Sepolia was heard all over the world. Sepolia is a neighborhood at the intersection of the central sector of Athens and the so-called western suburbs of Athens. It is the home of thousands of ordinary people who get up in the morning to go to work, go for an afternoon coffee, eat souvlaki at the small kiosks by the entrance to the subway. The days roll calmly by in Sepolia; its almost boring sometimes. In the infamous Sepolia, you will Greeks, Albanians, Pakistans, Russians, Bulgarians, Romanians, and Chinese living side by side. There is also a family from Nigeria.
...The New Democracy chairman tweeted how proud he was of the achievements of the #GreakFreak, forgetting that he had voted “NO” in 2015 when the Greek Parliament took a vote on the acquisition of Greek citizenship for immigrant children born in Greece. He also forgot that his party’s deputy is Adonis Georgiades, who a few years earlier mocked and could not pronounce the name of Giannis Antetokounmpo. It was an extremely sad moment because elsewhere in the world, his name is pronounced perfectly. Finally, do not forget Mr. Kyranakis, a spokesperson for New Democracy who openly said that when New Democracy comes into power in the upcoming elections, child benefits and child-raising allowances will be allocated only to Greek children. “Greeks only” is another expression that makes me sad because I’m a migrant kid myself. I am a migrant kid and one of those people with a strange name; one of those people with names that politicians cannot pronounce. We will always be the others, the outsiders. Fortunately, however, we are equally talented as the Greek kids and we were taught by our immigrant parents to think that we are better than Greek children. ...Fortunately, however, the next Messi may be in a tent in the European Union’s refugee hotspot of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesvos. The next Serena Williams may grow up in a basement in Kipseli and the next Giannis Antetokounmpo may be crammed with another 50 asylum seekers on a boat with crossing the Mediterranean. Until then, let’s finally take the borders off the map, let’s treat all people the same, whether they are scoring 3-pointers or not, and if we are miserable, let’s keep the misery for ourselves and not for the comments on Facebook.
The Greek street artist who calls himself “SAME84” has created an impressive piece of graffiti art dedicated to Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brothers on the wall of an apartment block in the Sepolia neighborhood, the place where the basketball stars grew up.
Next to the basketball court on Dyrachiou Street, which is also decorated with the figure of Giannis, who was named this year’s MVP of the NBA, the graffiti artist has painted a large image of him with his three brothers, Thanasis, Kostas and Alex.
The artwork, which measures more than four stories high, is truly an impressive feat of realistic art by any measure. The graffiti artist pays homage to all the family’s siblings, who  call themselves the “Antetokounmbros,” not just the three of them who are playing on the Greek national team.
“We are all bros,” SAME84 states on the graffiti work paying homage to the four brothers.
Giannis, Thanasis and Kostas Antetokounmpo are currently in training with Greece’s national basketball team for the FIBA Basketball World Cup, to be held in nine cities across China beginning on August 31.
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Thousands of ordinary Greeks turned out to greet their homegrown hero Giannis Antetokounmpo at the Sepolia district of Athens on Saturday.
The Greek Freak, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Kostas Antetokounmpo and Alex Antetokounmpo, together with their mother Veronica Antetokounmpo and their older brother Francis Antetokounmpo, hosted the 2019 “AntetokounBros” event that took place in the area where the family used to live and the neighborhood the young Antetokounmpo kids grew up.
It was the place where everything began for Giannis and his brothers. The newly crowned NBA MVP couldn’t be more proud with the welcome he and his family received by hundreds and hundreds of fans.
“It’s amazing. Who would have imagined that this would happen? I get chills with what was going on today,” Giannis said.
“No matter how much you achieve, the point is to not forget where you started. I will always start at Sepolia. Like it happened last season, so it happened this year.”
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Ethereum nears staking withdrawals with Shapella upgrade on Sepolia
Ethereum nears staking withdrawals with Shapella upgrade on Sepolia
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Ethereum has completed the “Shapella” upgrade on its Sepolia testnet, according to tweets from various Ethereum developers on Feb. 28.
The upgrade was completed at epoch 56,832 at 4:04 a.m. UTC as planned.
The name “Shapella” is a portmanteau, referring to the fact that the upgrade combines two related upgrades: Shanghai (which adds features to Ethereum’s execution layer) and Capella (which adds features to Ethereum’s consensus layer).
The upgrade specifically brings Ethereum closer to allowing validators to unstake their ETH. Currently, validators who stake 32 ETH on-chain cannot withdraw their funds but will be able to do so when the upgrade is fully implemented later.
Developers previously introduced the feature on the Zhejang testnet on Feb. 1. Developers said today that the feature will next be introduced on the Goerili testnet.
The upgrade is expected to arrive on Ethereum’s mainnet in March. At this point, the unstaking feature will apply to ETH with real market value.
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