OKC could do hartenstein and Dort for money then whatever assets you could imagine

magic should do it for Banchero

Amen + picks for Giannis and going all in on Giannis, KD, Sengun big 3 for a couple years, then still have a bunch of picks to build around Giannis and Sengun later. Amen’s not going to be nearly as good as Giannis even at his best case. But they’ll fall for the classic case of stand pat and overvalue your youth when they can go all in to contend right now, while KD is still performing at an elite level.

This is the same thing that happened with Dame tbh. He fuxked around too much with the same team instead of putting his foot down and asking for a trade.

Giannis missed the best window, Rockets dealt for Durant. OKC knows they’re a winner. SA dealt and extended Fox. Knicks dealt for Bridges. Orlando dealt for Bane. Mavs dealt away Luka. Warriors dealt for Jimmy. All those teams had assets that could have gone into a deal

For real, though. OKC has too many young players on extremely team friendly contracts where the only ways to make the money work means giving up more than they should, the Spurs just got things going with their young core and wouldn’t want to include anybody that the Bucks would want, and the Rockets would have to give up too many key players to entice the Bucks too, and we also aren’t trying to mess things up long-term with our young guys either.

The only teams that realistically would want to and have the ability to trade for him are teams that are in the middle of the pack and need a superstar to take a jump. Golden State, Cavs, maybe the Hawks. The best teams that could trade for him would be like The Magic or the Knicks, but I’m not sure what they would offer.

Teams are realizing he’s not worth the asking price to the point where you tear down your competing roster. Add to the fact he’s been mostly injury prone the last few years with declining defense and will be costing teams $62 million/year which brings up cap concerns (not to mention you have to retool your roster around him and give them time to gel) it makes sense front offices are hesitant. The time tha traded for Giannis was the beginning of the 2023 or 2024 season and that ship has sailed

I don’t understand why the talks don’t begin and end with Atlanta.

They just lost by 45 to the Nets. If he wasn’t going to leave before he probably will now lol

He ain’t leaving this season, and that’s obvious

In today’s nba I think a ton of teams are very wary of selling the farm for a past-their-prime star. And reasonably so. Even though he’s still currently playing at an all-nba or even mvp level.

After today’s game he might be leaving low-key

I think he will absolutely be dealt in the offseason but with current CBA restrictions around trades, trading a super max contract in-season is just so unbelievably difficult to pull off in a good trade for both sides.

they just lost to the nets……if he hasnt made his mind to, then hes dumb.

Why would the Bucks make things ugly so they can trade him as an expiring in the summer when he will have less trade value?

NBA media has been speculating that he’s been on the trading block for like a decade and he hasn’t moved as yet. I won’t believe that Giannis is getting traded until I see it.

Clippers might trade their first picks for the next bazillion years for him

No one is convinced. Most think there is a significant chance he will. If majority were convinced betting markets would reflect it.

With all the apron trade rules it’s pretty difficult to make a trade work for a superstar.

One of the things with the picks is also that Bucks have no control over their own. So they can’t tank to get better players, and because of Giannis any picks they get are going to be late firsts. It’s a rough trade guy him no matter what.

Warriors can offer a pile of young players and a bunch of post-Steph picks and have a decent 2-3 year window, and then just accept that it’ll be real ugly in 2030.

That’s why I think the Heat are the mostly likely destination with the Rozier and Wiggins contracts

Well it certainly gets the idiots of r/nba going

It’s literally the opposite and exists only for fans, written to fill up reddit and ESPN segments, trust me other GM‘s are not taking anything written in a tweet seriously, they’re not even aware of 99% of tweets like this

I’m not ashamed to admit I enjoy playing armchair GM with these rumors

Just wait for him in 27 FA then

Don’t forget the ever present Dalton Knecht in Laker fan trade fantasyland.

Honestly just do it at this point 

Get it over with. Lock yourself into lock contracts 

So the rest of us can try for any other stars in the future 

Unfortunately going to lose AR if it happens, but he gets paid and we get Giannis.

Yeah, I think with OKC doing what they are doing there isn’t a team that wants to look at giannis as someone worth spending franchise money on, future pics, role players, etc. because whatever you’d have to give up he wouldn’t make your team good enough to compete with OKC.

This used to be a veterans league.

That was before the vets started playing until they were 40 though.

Not only do we want to get a massive haul…we need to if we are actually going to trade him now. And he kinda forced the Bucks into this corner to a certain extent. Most of the team’s lack of assets and flexibility is a direct result of making moves to try to appease Giannis.

If we lose Giannis right now and get nothing decent back, we have no real hope for several years, and no Giannis means way fewer butts in seats. Even if he doesn’t extend and ultimately leaves in free agency…I feel like the net impact to the franchise might be better in that scenario because he’s physically here for two more years, and that brings us 2 giannis-having years closer to having picks again.

spurs might have been tempted if we had talent that was also on big money

but for us its like, okay if you wanted harper we still have to salary match so the price is harper + barnes + olynyk and then suddenly not only are we giving up young talent and picks it is depth as well

Theoretically the best deal for us would be fox as he’s talent and salary wrapped into one, we could cover losing him and still be okay but fox isn’t eligible for a trade til basically deadline and I think we like him anyway

Spurs would only want him for pennies on the dollar like we got Fox 

Short, succinct, accurate

Perfect reasoning also ik Ginnas is amazing but idk man it’s not like these teams are doing to have them if it’s going to cost them everything even then they are great with what they have now.

“Report: Lakers would like Giannis”

• Chris Haynes

“Hey we haven’t said Giannis could leave yet today.”

We are on pace to have one of the greatest seasons a team has ever had… Let’s make some changes! Major ones!

Miami gets: Giannis, Kuzma and the 2 other Antetekoumpo brothers.

Milwaukee gets: Herro, Rozier, Fontecchio, Ware, Jakucionis and firsts from Miami (I think they can trade up to 3).

Obiviously dependant on Rozier being trade eligible. Who says no?

What’s the point of the Dame trade if he leaves 

He must have wanted it 

I don’t want him here, but the Bucks subreddit would be hysterically funny if he went to Indy.

Or Orlando if they want to deal Banchero

How would ny make it work?

Spurs least likely to do something dumb. Actually, maybe OKC least likely

Adam Silver: 😉

A Lebron, picks, and filler package for giannis would honestly be hilarious

I was downvoted for saying current value of Giannis’ contract in the trade market is a happy meal, but I may have overestimated it.

I think the bridges trade also helped ruin the market a bit. I’m fully with you that these deals are much less likely to happen ever again (at least under the current cap/apron rules)

bridges and PG trade also awful in hindsight (do we respect Shai enough to call it the Shai trade now? lol)

Rockets would maybe make sense.

Spurs should not be looking to make any big win-now trades until after 2027 playoffs at the earliest. This year will be their first playoff run. Maybe add a role player or two for next year and if that doesn’t work THEN consider a big move, but their young core is top good to not stick with it for now.

“He’s clearly worth Jalen Johnson, Dyson and all our picks back! There isn’t a single team in the league that wouldn’t want to trade for him!!”

Huh 🤔