The Mix in My Mind: Giannis Antetokounmpo

Nov 26, 2014; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Milwaukee Bucks guard Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) looks on during the third quarter against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center. The Bucks defeated the Timberwolves 103-86. Mandatory Credit: Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports

There are countless reasons—varying from person to person and age to age—why we watch basketball, but whatever the particulars may be, joy and happiness are at the core. This game we love so much brings forth many emotions, but none better than those two. The quest for those fleeting moments is why we stay glued to our televisions year after year, watching game after game. Because when they do come, there is nothing better, and they always seem right around the corner. Yet too often they evade our grasp just as we seem closest to capturing them.

Which is why it was a blessing when Zeus himself took the words joy and happiness, turned them into a Greek demi-god named Giannis Antetokounmpo, and sent him down to Earth to play basketball. No one in the basketball world provides us with those rare moments of true joy and happiness more often than Giannis.

He’s always smiling, always positive, always upbeat. And it’s incredibly contagious. His happiness moves through your screen by some type of emotional osmosis and you cannot help but to smile. That is the power of Giannis Antetokounmpo.

That too, is the power of Matt and Kim’s “Daylight.” With carefree lyrics backed perfectly by an energetic keyboard and drums, the exuberant track leaves you no option but to smile and embrace a positive feeling. There is a sense of youth, of lightheartedness, of an attitude that nothing can go wrong that emanates from this song–making it a perfect fit for background music on a video of Giannis Antetokounmpo doing cool things.

This is the Mix in My Mind: Giannis Antetokounmpo.

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