The NBA’s Giannis Antetokounmpo is an opponent’s worst nightmare. At 6’11”, the Milwaukee Bucks power forward has become one of the best players in the league since his entry in 2013, allowing him to collect a laundry list of accolades – 2019 MVP, four-time NBA All-Star, NBA All-Defensive Team, and much more. He is also the first hoops star to complete a regular season in the top 20 rankings of all five statistical categories, including total points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. Antetokounmpo is now playing defense of a different sort, though, as some strange comments began to be posted by his Twitter account. It didn’t take long to figure out that his account had been hacked, and the damage apparently goes much further than the social media platform.

A series of obscene tweets began appearing on Antetokounmpo’s Twitter account yesterday, some of which attacked other basketball players, such as Stephen Curry and the late Kobe Bryant. Others were more innocuous, such as a tweet that he was on his way to the Golden State Warriors, but were still troublesome. Should the Warriors actually pick him up, which is within the realm of possibility, the result would be an NBA powerhouse led by the Greek national and Curry. It would be the type of move that would have other NBA teams cringing and suddenly creating entirely new playbooks.

Almost as soon as the wayward tweets began to appear, anyone who knows the player would have realized that the comments weren’t coming from him. Still, his brother, Kostas Antetokounmpo of the LA Lakers’ G-League team, was quick to jump in, responding to each tweet with a message of his own to let everyone know that the posts were fake.

The MVP’s girlfriend, Mariah Riddlesprigger, also stepped in to clarify the situation, explaining in a tweet of her own, “Giannis’ twitter, phone, email and bank accounts were hacked! He genuinely apologizes for everything that was tweeted and he will be back as soon as possible! The things that were said by this hacker were extremely inappropriate and disgusting!”