“The tweets and posts were extremely inappropriate and I am so disappointed and disgusted that somebody would say the terrible things that were said,” Antetokounmpo wrote.

“I feel terrible that the Bucks, Khris (Middleton), Lebron (James) and the Curry family were included in the malicious and untrue tweets. I feel especially terrible for the Bryant family, during their time of grief they should not be subjected to this type of negativity and foul behavior.”

The Bucks have announced that an investigation into the incident has been launched, while Antetokounmpo posted a message to his account hours later once he had regained control of it.

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