The “we tried, but he didn’t want to come, so don’t blame us” leak.

They basically called the warriors washed lol

ah yes, joining a 73 win team that just beat you in a series and joining the current Warriors are totally the same thing

I would bet money that wherever Giannis ends up, the next best player on the team is younger than him. He’s no dummy and knows where he’s at in his career.

Watch him not even be traded lmao

It makes sense - even with Giannis this Warriors team has 1-2 runs tops, that’s why their picks are considered valuable

“Sources within the league are saying Giannis doesn’t want to get punched in the face by Draymond Green” 

almost like Giannis is aware that their roster sucks

The aging concern I understand but joining a 73-9 team in free agency is not the same as getting traded to this years Warriors lol

they may have some immediate success, specially if the mock trade of giannis and turner to the warriors but yea he would be stuck in hell after 2 seasons. no draft picks and the best players retiring he essentially enters a rebuild.

thats right baby, heat got no alphas on the team! THATS ALL U DAWG

Bullshit because Giannis actually won a chip with no other full-on superstar.

KD was a game away (or a Klay splash fest) away from the Finals the year prior.

Giannis, this Warriors roster is NOT a 73-9 team. I think you can forget about that worry.

Joining this Warriors team is extremely different to KD joining them at their peak

He wants to go to Miami, he’s said it plenty of times, that’s where he will end up

Good, good!!!! (Evil laugh)

probably going to get downvoted to oblivion here, and we’d never get him anyways, but Giannis on this Hornets team would be so nasty - he’s like the triple platinum first ballot HOF version of the big man we need to complete the team

Can someone please just do something already at this point!

If Giannis wants to win a championship he should go to the Knicks and stay in the East

what does this dude want

y’all think that steve kerr will retire after this year report was from miami heat side cause they were 4d chessing for this trade?

they pulled a lot of those for dame trade too

The reason why a Giannis deal is getting tough to be done is because he wants all his 28 brothers who are uncapable of playing ball to follow him and get paid and no team wants to deal with any of that.

Warriors do not want to give up all those assets and are leaking this nonsense.

NBA media really tries to gaslight the fans

what this is really saying is Giannis isnt fond of being on a team with all the knees and kicks Draymond did to his nuts.

criticism that Durant absorbed by teaming up with Curry

Criticism from people not good enough to be in the league, or not good enough that anyone wants to team up with them. Fuck them critics. Get your rings however you can.

It’s def the team he’d get the most hate for Being on. 

If he went to the wolves it would a bunch of people trying really hard to like it but actually not watching. 

If he went to the Knicks they would be happy he stayed east and it makes sense. 

If he went to the heat, it’s kinda just meh. 

If he goes to GS, it’s immediatley toxic/total circus because the warriors fan base is huge and toxic af and because everyone else has been praying on their downfall and wants them dead. It’d be like miles garret deciding he wants to go to the Chiefs next year. But if he wins a ring with Steph it resonates on a global scale/transcends the sport the most. 

What are all the NBA gossip columnists going to do once Giannis moves?

lol get fucked Warriors

this is more like KG going to the Celtics i don’t see the same comparison

Totally reasonable. Curry undersized one way star that’s 37. That’s an insane ship to tie yourself too, especially when you have a recent example of how that fanbase perceives any star who overshadows curry.

High risk, low reward even if things turn out right

Giannis on the warriors I still don’t think they really gonna be contenders. Don’t think it’s a lock they beat nuggets or OKC

Warriors FO damage control in action.

I think this is part of why the Lakers haven’t come up either. I don’t think Giannis wants to go to the same team Kareem did and also in general is still looking for a situation where he will be the best player and get the most credit for winning in that situation.

IDK, the Warriors might be his best chance for a ring. Just boot Draymond to fix the drama factor.

he’s not wrong. warriors were the 8th seed with butler. without butler they are barely a play-in team.

not a significant step up from the bucks AND he’d have to go throught the west too if they even make the playoffs.

Lmao I’ve been saying this except delusional warriors fan don’t want to see it. Why would giannis pair up with an old ass star player?? Curry retires its bucks 2.0 again

Why would he want to go join a guy whose gonna be 38 by the time the post season is around? He might only have a couple seasons left in him for all we know.

Besides, they are absolutely no where close to being competitive for a title. After whatever it takes to trade, it would be Steph, Giannis and a bunch of nobodies. Even if they kept Draymond, unless you’re expecting Giannis and Steph to combine for 80 points a night, where is this outside scoring production going to come from?

Just a bad fit for him. If he goes there they will be in a worse spot than the Bucks are now, and they won’t have picks to rebuild with. 

An exisiting NBA Champion in Giannis joining the Warriors now is in no way the same arc as Durant who was ringless at the time joining a Warriors team who had just set a record.

Well he doesn’t have to worry about that second point. If he can win a chip… or even anything at all with this terrible Warriors roster that would be +1000 legacy points

Golden State FO leaking like a sieve and shooting themselves in the foot with this shit. Great work mid level staffers, I bet the journalists think you’re super cool and in-the-know!

Once an MVP, always the MVP… There has to be some of those thoughts, or some degree of that ego, with any athlete. 

Credit to Steph for not being one of those guys. Joker.as well. But, for most folks to get to that point, they have to have that ego, which can counter with a lot of insecurity. It is extremely rare for one of the GOAT’s, to admit that they are not the GOAT, or at least a t accept the fact that even the GOAT is not the only player on a team. :)

I mean, Giannis would be fine. They already started giving him copouts for if/when he decided to join/create a superteam. He’d get off very easy.

Ya idk I think the bucks should trade him in the offseason lol.

All this teasing just to wait til the off-season

Nugget

I think the Durant criticism has always been overblown. He is a Hall of Famer who joined a great team and made it better, and won two championships for his efforts. LeBron got a ton more flak for taking his talents away from his hometown Cavs (although he made good on that years later)

I mean, right now he says “I just wanna play with Curry, he’s so fun”, who’s gonna complain about that?

Giannis is never leaving Milwaukee 

“Elbows too pointy” type shit or something

I don’t get it

Giannis won a championship with the Bucks in 2021. Teaming up with Steph won’t have as much hate as KD had when he joined the Warriors.

Fischer throwing poop at a wall

Bucks need to just trade him to the Knicks and end this

So weird that it’s only the warriors that cop this sort of narrative.

In the words of the apocryphal Jay cutler story, “iiiiii doooonnttttt caaaaaarrrreee”

Uhh, no shit. Go get him anyways and convince him to stay! Fuckin risk averse losers

Come to Charlotte. Nobody will ever accuse you of taking the easy way out and it looks like we might actually have some talent to build around

Bro that’s what I was saying for his career this woulda been a dumb choice for him to want to go to GS it literally out of all the teams would be the worst option.

Lakers are the best fit and we all know it but only laker fans want it haha :).

Durant wasn’t criticized for teaming up with Curry lol, it was for teaming up with Curry and Co.

Fair enough I guess, but this ain’t the 73 win warriors and I’m also not sure if injured Giannis at this stage is 2017 Durant level of good either. (Don’t get me wrong, he could absolutely make me eat my words on that second part, but the first part isn’t remotely arguable)

He didn’t sign with a 73-9 team. They don’t have an overloaded, talented roster. There’s balance with him in GS but, hopefully they accept our pitiful Sixers offer lol

“Some in the know” aka random guy with hot takes on Reddit

Welp…my balls just went blue.

Durant and Giannis are completely different. Durant came during prime Steph years. Giannis coming now should basically be Steph helping Giannis. Steph seems smart enough to make that transition happen as smoothly as he can.

Another year of Lacob wasting Curry’s career

A possible Giannis trade to the Warriors wouldn’t benefit especially a long term outlook out his career. This is more so a move from the Warriors to give Steph one last chance to compete.

3-4 years with Steph, Steph retires now Giannis is left with a likely trash roster and no assets to build around because of the trade that would get him there. Warriors would have to trade him again to re coup some assets and Giannis would have to find a new team again. He doesn’t strike me as a guy who wants to keep changing teams. His next team will be his final team to close out his career.

thank god giannis has some sense

Wha criticism would giannis face for joining Steph?

Giannis has already won a ring by himself for his own team. And of all the teams pursuing him, I can literally only name the TWolves as being better built AFTER the trade to contend immediately for a title if that’s what Giannis wants ultimately. He’s not getting that in Atlanta, New York, Miami, etc..

Totally logical, although KD and him were in two completely different realities lol. KD went to the warriors after their 73 win season and choking a 3-1 lead in the Conference Finals. Giannis is in a poorly constructed team and the Warriors are struggling this year + Steph probs has 2 more years left in the tank if even

Silly premise. Durant joined the best team in the league at the peak of its powers. They were coming off the best regular season in history with.

Giannis also already has a ring where he was clearly the guy.

How did why people were annoyed by KD going to the warriors get so misunderstood?

This is why Portland makes sense. He doesn’t want to be viewed as taking the easy road by joining a stacked team.

lol this is getting too ridiculous, cant fucking wait for Feb 5 to come already

Realistically the only teams he could join and still be both young and contenders are okc, the spurs and a wild card blazers

What a garbage take. Nobody hated KD for joing Curry, they hated him for joining the best team in history. Acting like people would view this similarly is dummy shit

This actually makes a lot of sense. Giannis has always cared about how his story is told not just the rings winning matters but how you win clearly matters to him too after seeing the criticism KD still gets it’s not surprising Giannis would think twice about joining an already established dynasty

Who cares about losers on the internet criticising you. Go make a bag and win some shit

Doesn’t seem to bother KD

All that shit Giannis talked about “doing it the right way”, no way can he play alongside someone like Curry without catching shit for it.

Giannis cares so much about the arc of his professional story that he has done everything short of demanding a trade, solely so he can say, “Technically, I never demanded a trade.”

Who cares what he thinks, he’s an employee 🤷

Imagine going there and after a year or two Draymond tells him they dent need him lol

draymond should call him crying in the parking lot

It’s nothing like when Durant joined the Warriors - BUT, it would still be incredibly lame to join the Warriors, so I approve of this message.

Sounds like the bucks making up PR and leaks to pump this out to the warriors can up the ante

The first part yes, but there is zero chance he’d be criticized like KD was. He’d be the savior for the warriors who desperately need one. KD joined a 73 win team that was a playoff rival.

The KD slander was different. KD left and joined Steph and crew as soon as he lost to them. Giannis has already earned a ring, and remained loyal to bucks much longer than needed. 

i’m sorry but this isn’t even close to the kind of situation the warriors were in when durant joined. that sounds like a poor excuse they’re making lol

It’s going to be so annoying when the Lakers get him eventually for almost nothing

Honestly no. Giannis didn’t just lose to warriors in the playoffs up 3-1. Giannis won a ring already. This is not close to a KD situation. This is KG except Giannis won. (Also there’s no pierc).

I think basketball fans can appreciate the possibility of Giannis and Curry. Where as KD joining a 73 win team broke competition. 

Can we just skip to the offseason to the actual real Giannis offers? Don’t see anyway the Bucks trade him with the teams making the offers lol.

How long is Steph around? What’s the value to Giannis in going there, Draymond is gone in the trade, old Jimmy off an ACL, young talent gone in the trade, every pick from here to the far horizon gone… for like two years maybe to try and win?

Then you’re older, alone, no young talent to help you out, no young talent getting added in the draft… hoping someone will join you at some point because the Warriors, at that point, used to be a dynasty awhile back?

It’s not going to go well for him in San Francisco but bring it on.

This feels similar to the Dwight Orlando situation at this point.

Dwight wanted out, that news got out, he took it back, everything got awkward, the team fucked up its future to try and appease a guy who was just going to leave anyway, and then got pennies on the dollar for him. Ironically, Orlando probably won that trade in the long run but they got the worst of the haul in the immediate.

This guy needs to just say the team he wants to go to. Good grief.

So bro wants a good team but not a team that’s too good?

Unlike KD he isn’t going to a championship caliber team. And more importantly he has a ring.