Saudi Pro League’s Al-Hilal debuts Giannis jersey after shaggy dog narrative tweet

First Neymar, now Giannis Antetokounmpo?

After signing the Brazilian soccer celeb to a contract reportedly price $175 million, Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal debuted one other new uniform that contains the Greek NBA celeb’s No. 34.

Antetokounmpo answered in jest, joking that he and Neymar shall be the league’s new simplest duo. (Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane who?)

Antetokounmpo’s “unveiling” used to be a response to a shaggy dog narrative tweet that the two-time NBA MVP posted about rumors that Al-Hilal signed Neymar’s weak Paris Saint-Germain teammate Kylian Mbappe to a one-Twelve months contract price greater than $1 billion blended paid to Mbappé and PSG. 

The France huge name has since agreed to proceed playing for PSG, even supposing he has restful no longer signed a protracted-term extension with the club and may perchance hit free agency subsequent summer as rumors proceed to construct him with Precise Madrid.

Or no longer it is factual basically the most contemporary occasion by which an NBA huge name has shouted out a now-weak member of PSG’s erstwhile celeb trio of Neymar, Mbappé and Lionel Messi. LeBron James attended Messi’s debut for MLS aspect Inter Miami, while Joel Embiid also tweeted prematurely of Inter Miami’s Leagues Cup semifinal match against Philadelphia Union, which Messi’s squad received 4-0.