By Matt Mueller Culture Editor Published Feb 16, 2019 at 10:01 AM Photography: Dan Garcia

While Bucks fans and hoop experts have known about Giannis Antetokounmpo for a while, this season has thus far served as quite the coming-out party for Milwaukee's MVP candidate. He's leading the best team in the NBA, with silky smooth highlights just about every night, he graced the top of Bill Simmons' ballyhooed Trade Value chart and he even starred in a Super Bowl commercial. He's no longer just Milwaukee's star; he's an entire league's star. 

That coronation will become official this upcoming All Star Game weekend in Charlotte, where Giannis will not only captain the East as the conference's leading vote getter, but he'll be the focus of a new TV documentary chronicling his incredible rise: "Finding Giannis."

Premiering before the dunk contest, three-point contest and skills contest – aka the best parts of All Star weekend – "Finding Giannis" will tell the Bucks star's story from a scrawny, mostly unknown lottery pick to one of the league's most exciting players. The short doc – 30 minutes according to TNT's schedule – comes complete with interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with Giannis, highlights from across his thrillingly still-young career and, according to ESPN NBA Draft analyst Jonathan Givony (who premiered the preview on Twitter), "quite a few previously untold stories."

The documentary will debut at 5:30 p.m. on TNT on Saturday, Feb. 16. Tune in, Milwaukee; watching a star be born in front of one's eyes doesn't happen to every team or every city. 

Matt Mueller Culture Editor

As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.

When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.