The Milwaukee Bucks have worked in stealth mode so far this season. While the Brooklyn Nets have made the flashy moves, trading for James Harden, adding Blake Griffin, the Bucks have gone about their business by adding a veteran “three and D” guy in P.J. Tucker. While the Philadelphia 76ers have been at the top of the Eastern Conference for much of the year and Joel Embiid was a strong MVP candidate before getting injured, the Bucks have quietly gone 9-1 in their last 10 and are only 1.5 games back of the 76ers. The Bucks haven't taken up as many of the headlines as they have the last couple of years, and that's exactly how Giannis Antetokounmpo prefers it.

Speaking to the media after the Bucks 120-113 over the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday, Antetokounmpo said he likes flying under the radar.

Within the 8+ minute post-game presser, Giannis noted, “We don’t play for people to talk about us. I kind of like it (to be under the radar). I just want to be left alone. I never liked bright lights. I never liked people talking about us. It just adds pressure to me and my teammates to come in and do what we do.”

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While it's understandable where Giannis is coming from, when you win back-to-back NBA MVP awards and your team is a perennial title contender, you're going to get the added pressure naturally, whether it comes externally or internally. But he brings up a valid point. Milwaukee is not being talked about near to the degree they have been the last few seasons. The 76ers fast start chewed headlines, the moves by the Nets have been talked about to exhausting lengths. All the while, the Bucks have methodically gone about their own way, out to 27-14 start and they're doing it quietly, making them all the more dangerous.

So far this season, Giannis is averaging 29 points per game to go along with 11.7 rebounds and 6.4 assists. If not for voter fatigue and the puzzling need to always mix it up, Giannis would be right back in the MVP discussion. Maybe he prefers it this way though; it certainly seems like it.