Well actually 🤓 were named that because the Charlotte area was described as a “hornets nest” by a British commander due to the fierce resistance he faced from the local Patriots.

So we’re technically named after some badass people while your team is named after a temperature that nobody likes 🤓

It’s weird, man. Flairs with good teams seem to have this superiority complex like they are actually lacing them up. We’re all at home watching the games lol

And if you don’t have any team flair people will just comment “flair up” and downvote you

Not as lame as your poverty franchise….

Nothing else is needed to be said. It’s basically the same as “opinion invalid”

Dec’etn Noooo

*best coach of all time

No team should improve at all if the question is “does this make us better than the Thunder?”

I don’t think they should get Giannis. The only thing they should try get at the moment is a backup big (meaning ware can start)

So everyone should just pack it up and not try to get better? I agree OKC os a monster but they were a hali achiles away from blowing it.

Really nobody is beating the thunder, the pacers last season were the only ones that could’ve stopped the 3-peat but now we’re cooked until Wemby locks in or some other team randomly gets really good

giannis getting traded will suck. I will take some slight joy in him not going to the knicks bc they spent their picks on bridges :)

the bucks not controlling their own picks, and portland isn’t giving them back, would mean they have no incentive to take bad contracts and have every incentive to try and stay middle of the pack with some young talent that can keep the team from nets level bottoming out. also if you added the hawks picks to that then you can both avoid bottoming out completely and get two decent draft picks

As I said elsewhere, because the bucks won’t control their picks and the blazers absolutely won’t be giving them back, they have no incentive to be a nets level bad team (i.e., the type of team who absorbs bad contracts for picks).

So they don’t need cap space they need 2-3 great draft assets and then young, promising players who can keep them slightly afloat in the east for a couple years.

i don’t think cap space is bad for the bucks, i just don’t think it outweighs other potential options.

if i’m the bucks i’d take another (or better) 1-2 firsts over cap relief.

would u rather have 26mil in cap space or the pels 2026 1st and the mke 2027 first if you’re the bucks?

seems like a no brainer.

You live your truth brother but you’re talking about a top 2-4 player in the nba.

Fan bases always overvalue their own guys, especially young players. The actual truth is not that the heat would better keeping their guys, it’s that they don’t have enough to offer to get giannis despite the fact that it would make them better and a favorite in the east

If the price lowers to one good player, one young player, and two late firsts I’m pretty confident every single team will get in on that.

And sure, Giannis can shut some of these down but I can’t imagine the Bucks are going to take a poo poo platter like the Knicks offer just to appease him and fuck over their team for more than half a decade.

Edit: What a bizzare thing to get that mad about and block someone over lol. Maybe I’m wrong bro, it’s not that serious.

You gotta reread what I said brother. I said that 10 teams can beat those teams offers.

What are KAT and OG going to do with no picks attached for the bucks? They will be worse than they are with Giannis currently have have 0 picks.

Heat is probably the beat offer here out of those 4 and it’s not great, the Bucks are going to be a bad team and if they don’t get any picks back or a young high ceiling player what is the incentive at all to trade?

Houston has reed sheppard, amen, tradeable contracts and 4 future firsts and swaps.

Hawks have Trae or Jalen + Risacher + The bucks own picks for the next two years/the pelicans pick along with Porzingus and other comp.

Spurs have 3 all star ceiling guards in Fox, Harper, Castle that can all be traded along with a slew of great draft assets from spurs or other teams. Not to mention lottery talent like Carter Bryant.

Philly has tradable contracts and mccain/vj/ multiple firsts and future draft comp.

Blazers have 3 straight years of bucks pick control, all their picks after this years conveys, and other teams firsts along with young prospects.

Detroit has Duren, ivey, ausar, and all their picks to trade.

That’s atill not even including some teams like the raptors, bulls, pacers, orlando, cleveland that can beat the offers of teams like the lakers with younger prospects and or all their picks.

Mean I’m just saying that gives them more options to move pieces around, right now MKE only got Giannis as a trade piece.

My dog we are not close to contention. Being 2nd in the East 20 games into the season has zero bearing on actual title aspirations and our roster isn’t remotely close to contention regardless if you swapped them. For instance, Jak is a traditional big and Giannis plays best with stretch bigs. You’d have to radically shift the roster and we’re already paying premium. We are not winning a title with Giannis in the next 2 years which is likely the last couple years of Giannis being Giannis. He’s not exactly young anymore. Gutting the team to acquire him and then try to contend is literally what the Bucks tried and they failed. We’d just be taking on their shit. Teams like the Spurs and OKC can casually integrate him and go all in right now. Raptors are nowhere near that.

That’s not the point. The Raptors will not contend with Giannis either way so why have a short window for a guy who likely has zero intentions of staying and giving away your best player? Are you dense?

I know. He especially wouldn’t want to stick around a franchise that fired his guy

I was kidding. Yeah it’d make no sense for you guys.