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Giannis Antetokounmpo is no longer credited with another career triple-double, as the NBA decided that his 10th and last rebound in Bucks game vs. Washington shouldn't have counted.

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The NBA has rescindedGiannis Antetokounmpo's 10th rebound last night- and thus his triple-double.

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The league adjusted the statistics from the Milwaukee Bucks-Washington Wizards game Sunday night and erased Antetokounmpo’s final rebound, the one that would have given him a triple-double.

The 28-year-old two-time NBA MVP grabbed a defensive rebound with about nine seconds left, knowing that left him one rebound short of 10. He hustled the ball downcourt, got near the rim the Bucks were shooting at and hesitated for a moment before throwing the ball intentionally into the bottom of the rim and catching it.

"Kind of stole one," Antetokounmpo acknowledged Sunday night.

League rules say that for a field-goal attempt to count as official, the player has to shoot "with intent to score a field-goal," which means to make the shot.

On-site statisticians credited him with a missed shot and a 10th rebound from that play. The NBA reviews all stats from each game and regularly makes changes to correct errors or omissions, and it removed the last rebound Monday.

Milwaukee won 117-111. Antetokounmpo finished, officially, with 23 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds. The stat adjustment dropped his rebound average from 11.94 per game to 11.92, even though his shooting percentage, with the missed shot also erased, improved from 53.8% to 53.9%.

He now has 32 career triple-doubles.

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