On Prime Video Feb. 19, the feature-length documentary following Nigerian Milwaukee Bucks player from Athens, Greece, to NBA champion premieres.

“I don’t play basketball for the money, the fаme; I only play because I wаnted to change my family’s life,” Giannis Antetokounmpo says in the trailer for his upcoming documentary, Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, released by Prime Video on Wednesday.

Starting with his parents, Charles and Veronica Antetokounmpo, who fled Nigeria in 1991 to move their family to Greece in search of a better life, the full-length documentary—available on February 19—tells the story of Giannis’s family.

Born in Athens on December 6, 1994, Giannis will act in keeping with these principles when he announced his candidature for the 2013 NBA draft. He joined the Milwaukee Bucks on July 30, 2013, and he has been with the club his whole professional career, supporting them in winning their first NBA title since 1971 in 2021.

From rising above racism growing up as an African immigrant in Greece to bringing his family to America in 2014, and handling the unexpectable death of his father three years later in 2017, the Marvellous Journey goes beyond the power forward’s professional highlight reel.

“I don’t want to play no more,” Giannis says of his feelings at the time of his father’s deаth in the trailer. “I don’t want to play no more.”

Along with revelations from the two-time consecutive NBA Most Valuable Player fondly known as “the Greek Freak,” the documentary highlights Giannis’s mother Veronica, his siblings Thanasis, Kostas, and Alex Antetokounmpo, and his fiancée Mariah Riddlesprigger.

Other NBA players Jason Kidd, Khris Middleton Jrue Holiday, Vin Baker, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson also feature in the film.

As demonstrated from past ventures, the Hollywood rendition of Giannis’s story has been told already. Disney released the biographical sports drama Rise in 2022 based on the actual experiences of MVP and his brothers Thanasis and Kostas.

Director and producer of Giannis: The Marvellous Journey is Emmy winner Kristen Lappas. Executive producers Aaron Cohen, Libby Geist, Nick Monroe, and Giorgos Panou join Connor Schell and Hannah Beir on the endeavour.