Knicks are suddenly happy with their team as is and Warriors are choosing to stick by Jimmy. How convenient

Nah they have assets but those assets are players they would want next to Giannis. 

Aside from that, depending on the haul going out I can’t say we’d be a better team anyway

Like of course giannis is who he is, but from all the chatter it seems KAT and then one of OG/Mikal would have to go along with some other bench pieces

Similar to the Melo deal, who’s gonna be left? And then you gotta hand Giannis an extension

I would say don’t worry it’ll all be over soon but if Giannis doesn’t move at the deadline we will continue to get non-stop stories about future trade rumors that will receive more air time on ESPN and more upvotes on reddit than anything even resembling a conversation about the actual game of basketball

Can someone make an infographic of the GM with turned out pockets shrugging? I’m still workshopping a pun about how their picks have been “knicked”

Yeah would literally take Giannis publicly being like trade me to the Knicks

But he’s too much of a scardie cat an doesn’t wan people to hate him.

Even then we still would not get him.

Hot take though. I Legit think he’s gonna be in Brooklyn by end of week OR in the summer

We don’t want or need him. We are contenders and ECF bound without him. Warriors and heat can’t say the same.

If it’s Kat for giannis straight up then fine but they want us to include wings, deuce, picks? Easy pass. Not worth all of that given our position.

Too bad they gave up every asset for Mikal. Hes a great player but they couldn’t have kept 2 picks? Could’ve netted Giannis

They have more top assets than Anyone could offer in towns and bridges …. It’s just not the assets bucks want… Picks and younglings… Would have to be a multi team deal

Knicks won six in a row and found an effective role for KAT to be off ball. Plus they have had excellent bench production and probably see a Giannis trade as too expensive. If Giannis wants to be a Knick and the Knicks want him a deal would be made. This is the NBA. it’s a players and markets league.

fuck them picks

If only we didn’t trade for the guy who made two game winning defensive stops against the defending champs in their house to help lead us to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 25 years.

Fuck them picks

Even if we never made the Mikal trade, what’s the Giannis deal? KAT plus all our future picks? Yall would be clowning that package saying the picks won’t be worth anything with Brunson and Giannis

Those picks have yet to produce a player that can shoot over 35% from the field.

FUCK WE COULD’VE HAD BEN SARAF

Then we probably would have never beaten the Celtics and possibly not the Pistons

His salary was so low that they didn’t have to lose any good players at all to acquire him though, and then could sign him to an extension that took them way over the salary cap in a way that no other trade could. They can still give the Bucks 3 pick swaps and an actually good player that can be flipped for multiple firsts. No team that seriously wants to pursue Giannis can even do that, unless OKC or San Antonio decide to enter the foray.

Not sure if it’s been said, fuck them picks + lol Nets

Love how all of the responses to this clear joke is from Knicks flair lmao

Brooklyn netted 4 1st round picks since the 2025 top-four protected pick via Bucks did not convey.

As it stands it’s Ben Saraf + 3 unprotected picks (27, 29, 31).

What having zero assets of significant value does to a mf*

We had a brutal stretch but the team has played really well outside of that

I kind of fail to see how it would make sense for either team. The Heat are meh right now, and with what they’d be giving up, I’m not sure the roster with Giannis would be all that good. Him and Bam also don’t seem like a great fit.

The Bulls with Giannis but without the players they’d be sending back wouldn’t be all that different from the current Bucks. 35-year-old Vuc is not a great co-star.

As a heat fan I don’t think even getting him puts us past the 2nd round. He isn’t going to play until march. Just need Milwaukee to say they are waiting until the draft and be done 

No worries, Bulls will just trade him to the Kings next year.

It wouldn’t be a problem until next season

I don’t worry at all about Chicago, even with Giannis you know they wouldn’t put together a proper team. Miami I wouldn’t worry this year or next, they would need time to really build a respectable team with him

Who do the bulls trade. If they have to trade giddy then not really

Feel like that’s just the Bucks 2.0. Giannis would have to play like 2021 Giannis to get that team to go anywhere. They’d have to add another piece

I’m not worried about the Heat making a trade for really anything personally

Only team I’d be worried about getting him would be Detroit.

Boston and NYK I would be worried about but I’m pretty thoroughly convinced neither can make the cap work.

It’s totally valid to talk about the Knicks in a different way when it comes to Giannis than any other team. Giannis reportedly wants to go to the Knicks, and the Knicks have had their eye on him. The Bucks and Knicks had some level of trade talks the past offseason.

So that if (most likely when) the Knicks pass up on Giannis at the deadline, they can make fun of the Knicks. Kind of like how media clowned the Knicks for not getting #1 to draft Zion and sign KD and Kyrie in 2019.

How? Windhorst literally says in the article that the Knicks like their team and don’t think the East is such a mountain to climb where they’d need Giannis

Windy sucks bro. Hes on some form of media like 4 hours a day just spouting shit. This sub seems to love him and he gets posted all the time but he’s paid to speculate. Yes he also gets insider info and reports that, but sometimes he’s just guessing or giving his opinion the same as a random redditor. 

Giannis is one of my favorite non-Knicks players, but I’ve been saying this from the beginning.

If we still had all those picks, then sure, let’s go for it. But gutting a team that is as deep as ours to get Giannis makes me REALLY nervous. As great as he is (and I do consider him to be on the ‘best in the league’ level), and as much as I think he’ll PROBABLY still be great going forward, his accumulating injuries so far are concerning enough that going all in will be a massive gamble

I mean they’d still have their bench they’d probably just move guys like bridges & KAT

So the bulls moving up to 2nd in odds of acquiring Giannis yesterday was…? Idk much about betting markets so if anyone could explain

Yeah Bucks would have to Kangz/Nico it or something similar. In which case why not, yolo I guess 

What’s the most you would offer from your team? Like max amount best offer which you think won’t equal what you described lol. Just curious about much you think is like: “anything more and I’m out!”

The biggest reason I think a trade might happen is because the Bucks owners talk themselves into having KAT and potentially still being a play in team for a few years while they wait to get their picks back to tank. They’re still gonna want to sell tickets. And they could maybe be decent enough to build a play in team around KAT. It sounds a little crazy, but owners like to make money.

I also think it’s going to come down to where Giannis says he wants to go. I can’t see the Bucks shipping him off to somewhere he isn’t interested in.

Yup I don’t see how a Giannis to the Knicks would help the Knicks much unless Giannis diminishes his trade value by demanding to go to the Knicks.

Listen bro I was with you until that last sentence. The East is far weaker than the West, don’t hope for a league that every star is in the Western conference. 

Man I hope so, even more if we can keep Mobley and Tyson.

They’ll just keep talking about it and make the new deadline the Summer. Same playbook they’ve been using at ESPN for 6+ years for this Giannis story. In their eyes, eventually it has to happen, right? Exhausting to say the least.

KUMINGA NEWS BABY

Stats and analysis, deep dives into strategy…. lol /s

I mean haven’t the Bucks already pretty much said they are fine waiting until the offseason? Unless some team comes in and blows them away with an offer, which therein could hurt the team acquiring him, seems like a lot of teams will stand pat and wait for this summer.

I think they’d just shut him down for the season. Do what Portland has done with Scoot and keep saying “reevaluated” in 4-6 weeks.

Skill aside Giannis is a top 3 athletic freak in the NBA still. Just needs to actually fully rest and recover. So the offseason is most likely when he’ll go if he eventually does get traded.

What’s the Hornets’ package for Giannis?

I know this is next to impossible,but Giannis with lamelo would actually be so fun to watch. Only downside is hornets would definitely have to give up their young pieces and most likely Kon as well

i don’t think giannis is at that point of his career where he’d be ok to come off the bench

They still get the worse of theirs and the Pelicans’ picks. So they have an incentive to tank for a good pick. The Pels are the team with no pick at all.