Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has suffered yet another injury after leaving the Bucks' 102-100 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Friday early.

Antetokounmpo expects that he's strained his calf again and is awaiting confirmation of a 4-6 week injury designation after he receives the results of an MRI.

He explained that he couldn't walk by the end of the game, was running on his heels because he couldn't put weight on his toes and didn't have his same explosiveness. 

The injury means that he will miss the All-Star tournament and won't be a member of the formidable looking Team World that will include Luka Doncic, Victor Wembanyama, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and possibly Nikola Jokic if the Nuggets star is back from his own injury in time. 

At this point, Antetokounmpo is looking ahead to focus on his recovery in hopes that he can come back better from this injury, which is the second time this season that he's had to miss significant time due to a calf strain. 

'It's frustrating. But, if I'm going to do the work, I'm going to go through the protocol, I'm going to get up early, eat right, sleep right, work hard. It's not easy for me to whine," Antetokounmpo said (via Bucks). 

While his calf injury is the most immediately frustrating thing, the entire Milwaukee season has been frustrating for both Antetokounmpo and the Bucks as a whole. Milwaukee is just 18-26 more than halfway through the season and judging how the Bucks played the last time that Antetokounmpo missed time, things look downhill from here. 

It's certainly not the season that the Milwaukee star was expecting and it's part of that disappointing record that trade rumors have swirled throughout the season and a potential exit and end of the Greek Freak era could be near for the Bucks.

Still, even if a trade could come to pass, the injury history that's sprung up this season for Antetokounmpo, especially in such a critical area as the calf, definitely alters outside perceptions of his future. 

He is still a world-class talent, but so many injuries at least put a question mark on his longterm viability, particularly if his trademark explosiveness is affected by his repeated injuries. 

For a team that won the NBA Finals as recently as 2021, the state of the franchise today is an unfortunate sign. 

The future of the the Bucks may be uncertain at this point, but what is certain is that whenever Antetokounmpo returns, and for whatever team he returns for, the frustration that has so far built up and will likely continue to do so as he embarks on the road to recovery will be released on whatever poor basketball is in his path.