Every time Giannis talks and people are kinda confused my first thought is always “this is a Nigerian man through and through” lmaoo

I don’t know anything about Nigeria, but this is also a very Greek attitude, a deadly combination

Guys I’m not racist btw. Most of my family is Nigerian so i know 🤣

The last time I spoke with one I had to wire him 10k and haven’t heard back.

I’ve had coworkers who hate when I talk like this but it’s so damn natural to do so. My wife though is able to hear what I’m saying and know exactly how I feel about a topic. Love it.

I bet if Giannis could he’d never tell anyone what he makes but would listen with eagle ears to what everyone else is making and quickly use it as a justification to management as to why he deserves more.

He did:

Today, our relationship is great. Tomorrow it might be different. It’s the same thing with my wife. Until today, my wife is great. She’s a great mother. She’s a great partner. She supports me. Until today. Tomorrow, she might wake up and be like, “I don’t want this. I fell out of love.” Until today, me and (Bucks general manager) Jon (Horst) have a good relationship. Tomorrow, (Horst) might think there’s something else out there, and he might have to do whatever he has to do. 

The bolded part clarifies that he means it isn’t only his decision.

Have you seen how his team is being run?? I would do the exact same thing in his shoes and everyone knows why he isn’t speaking in absolutes, so it’s brain-dead to act confused about it.

That is completely not what that quote is about. The original reddit story is about someone selflessly helping someone else because it will eventually come back to them. Giannis on the other hand is clearly trying to qualify his statement about staying in Milwaukee by saying his feelings might change at any moment, which is out of self-interest, and basically the complete opposite of the altruism in “today you, tomorrow me.”

If anyone is interested, you can read the original story here:
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/comment/c18z0z2/

Another one is LeBron “whatever the case may be” James

LeBron “oh yeah I read the sound and the fury” James.

Lebron “Bronny is definitely better than some of these cats [in the NBA]” James

things of that nature

That’s also Mike Tomlin

Pat Riley, whatever happened there

Both are loyal dudes and have given everything to their franchises 

Giannis could of left pre 2021 ring when the noise and speculation was the loudest

Exactly. The next 5 years are docs

But it would make me feel better.

I’m gonna die on the hill that the roster isn’t that bad and is just utilized incorrectly.

If you watch Bucks games you’ll know Doc is a fucking dingus.

It wouldn’t make us contenders but we’d have another 6-7 wins right now.

It actually might help… We have very capable perimeter defenders and watching these last few games our perimeter defense is absolutely disgusting… also only having one true wing is killing us.. his 2kesque rotations do not help..

Also while we do have Giannis the way we play does not match the roster we have… playing fast would help clear up some of the issue we have but for some reason they just refuse to push the pace.

Lmao I wish he was still a head coach the nickname is too funny to die. Where’s Hamas when you need him hands in the pockets talking about ball clubs

Yeah but it’s a reasonable analogy.

I think people are being a bit daft about the agent thing.

Two things can be true: giannis agent has giannis permission to hold whatever conversation he wants to hold and encourage whatever move he believes is best to manage GAs career. At the same time, his agent can als hold those conversations without relaying every single phone call he has made on GAs behalf.

He won’t control his agent like that and say “hey any phone call you take or make, I want informed to approve that.” Or “I don’t want traded stop exploring”

Giannis always wants his options open. Again two things can be true: he can be locked in on this season and want to retire a buck AND he can be compelled to explore other options that may give him better chances to advance his career.

He’s saying a bunch of bullshit. He’s in complete control of whether he stays or goes. The franchise will not trade him unless he wants out.

Hypothetically they have a good future

Yeah it seems pretty transparent whats happening honestly. He has very genuine love and loyalty for the city but he knows he gonna most likely just be stat stuffing and maybe getting playin games or 1st round exits for the rest of his career if he stays

The problem is that he’s put pressure on them for years and they’ve given up pretty much all of their valuable assets to placate him. There’s nothing left, and they’ve got such a busted roster that it’s comical. This is a toxic relationship but the Bucks have allowed it to go this way.

It’s just not happening. They don’t have the money, luck, or skill to give him a contending team any time soon.

I get the guilt stuff but he’s gotta suck it up and take a risk.

Giannis has been very clear that he wants to be in Milwaukee. He’s also been very clear that his desire to stay is contingent on being competitive for a championship.

I don’t think Windy, Shams, etc are making up that Giannis himself goes back and forth on the teams competitive outlook.

Giannis could leave in the most passive aggresive way possible and id root for him wherever he went forever. Sometimes i watch the wizards just to see my boy khris throw up a few more contested middys. I never thought id live to see the bucks get a ring, we were complete ass my entire life so its just house money at this point.

This time we’ll trade him to NY

Giannis himself has never publicly said anything and probably never will but it’s pretty clear at this point that he’s directing his camp to say things and apply pressure on the front office

Yk those rumors don’t come out of nowhere. His camp feeds it to the media to light a fire under the GM’s ass. He‘s a manager just like LeBron

Cmon man this is way disingenuous. This has been going on for years, it’s not just the media

Let’s not pretend his agent, Alex Saratsis, doesn’t frequently help fan those flames.

Yeah I get that it’s normalized in American culture to project a perfect image and hide flaws, but it’s insane how that standard is so ingrained that we’re now saying Europeans are playing games by not lying.

Like there is no way Giannis is worse than the Lavine example you gave. Or Dame making loyalty his entire personality, signing a supermax, and then demanding a trade to the Heat for a bag of chips.

Did Indiana’s record at this point last year scream close?

Did Bostons record at this point in 2022 scream close?

Did dallas’s record at this point in 2024 scream close?

It’s a pretty regular occurrence where an underperforming team makes transactions at the deadline that completely reinvent them and they become a curveball for the rest of the league going into the playoffs and go on a run

Hes also not an off ball player. Any team that takes him has to build their entire system around him without whoever they gave up for him. Theyd basically be blowing things up to rebuild around a 31 year old player with whatevers left. Unless the bucks are willing to accept 1 pick and a player like kuminga or a bunch of older players hes probably staying

Shams was saying exactly the same things before the signed the previous supermax

Shams first tweet about Giannis leaving was in 2019. Then this summer he said Giannis was considering it “for the first time.”

Those are mutually exclusive. Either he was making ahit up from 2019-2025 or he made it up this summer.

no you just don’t get it. no player has EVER leaked to the media info.

He’s said that exact same thing for years. “I’m here and committed as long as I see a path to winning” or some variation thereof.

That’s reasonable and honest. This reaction is what players get when they’re reasonable and honest and consistent rather than media trained.