The speculation is always more exciting than the destination

We need more Nico’s in this league

Except for the Luka trade. We got the trade of the decade without any hype leading up to it

Well I would say that wasn’t the case last year I guess. No one expected that

Me thinking Trae young would get us ATLEAST a mid first round pick

That’s what the actual betting men are saying as well, Giannis not getting traded is a heavy favorite everywhere you can bet on it lol

Thing is, his value goes down this summer. Risky if you’re the Bucks. If you wait for the summer Giannis becomes an expiring because of his player option.

Until GA says i am only signing an extension with these 2 teams and tanks his trade value 

Is that good for the Bucks? How many picks is Giannis actually worth? Plus how good of picks are we talking, late 1st maybe.

2 things:

1. They would be fucking Giannis over from being able to sign the max. Would they do that to the player that made them relevant again? Who knows.

2. He’ll have 1 year on his contract and will have more power because he’ll simply tell the team he won’t resign. Who tf is going to trade all those picks for a year rental?

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A 3rd is that the Bucks own their pick this year so if they don’t trade him and Giannis decides to play, he’ll fuck that up.

Nah they sign giannis to extension and then trade him.

You see the vision

We could just stay off reddit and espn. Touch grass as they say

Doubt it goes the entire summer. I’d expect a draft night trade so MIL can control the 2026 pick instead of relying on their trade partner coincidentally choosing the player they want.

Nothing else going on in summer, better then than now tbh

I can’t wait ‘til some team other than the Lakers or OKC comes out of the West, and this is all we hear about DURING THE FINALS…

Go outside then

Giannis “SideShowtokounmpo”

Why? I thought he’s been good for yall

Idk I get wanting to max the returns. It’s not like people are gonna trade less for him than they’re currently able to in the summer. Could see more candidates show up as well

If Giannis guarantees he’ll sign with the team that’s trading for him, I’d imagine the packages would be better than 4 picks + expirings or 3 firsts + the Heat’s young prospects (who don’t typically do well elsewhere) or w.e. it is the Timberwolves are offering player wise

The reality though is star players never return adequate value. They’ll string it out, get an extra pick or young player and it still won’t be worth what Giannis is worth most likely

And the Warriors package is actually pretty shit.

Post-Steph they would have cap room and no incentive to tank. Add that to the fact that every current NBA player(except LeBron) grew up with the Warriors being THE team. They’ll absolutely be able to sign good enough free agents to compete for the play-in every year.

One year left on his deal doesn’t get you more assets in the summer unless he plans to extend

And even then it’s probably the same teams that throw similar deals at him unless OKC loses and decides to go all in 

Honestly, don’t know why they aren’t all in now, they have more picks than they can roster and are staring at three max contracts next season 

Yup and similar offers will be on the table in the offseason, future pick years unlock and pick swaps become cleaner.

What’s giannis gonna do, vaguely request a trade even harder?

Why I put money on either the Pistons or Thunder to land him before the deadline

Spoiler alert they still won’t.

That stuff isn’t going to be available in the off season 

GA will have more leverage with his PO and the new team isn’t guaranteed 2 PO runs not sure it will be better 

He is 31 with 4 calf injuries in 2 years. His game relies heavily upon attacking the rim and athleticism so his value is down like AD

We can still get one this year without trading Giannis

Too bad too, we’re playing elite “top 5 pick” basketball right now. It’s rare a team can be so good at tanking without trying to be. Shoutout Doc(please quit).

In a scenario for the Heat specifically even if they open more picks, they need different salary. That more likely becomes someone like Wiggins instead of Terry. So despite opening more picks, maybe they offer even less now. And that’s if Wiggins opts in, if he doesn’t salary matching becomes even more difficulte because it’s built on even more young guys which the Heat aren’t gunna give more picks AND young guys for a half year less of Giannis.

Not looking in to other team but Im sure they’d have similiar scenarios playing out.

Because Miami probably pivots to JA on Thursday for 2 expirings Terry and Simmone 

I doubt Miami does that if Giannis is actually saying privately he only wants to go there.

They would probably swap in the 2026 pick for the 2032 pick and offer fewer young players.

Conversely, an MVP caliber player was traded in his prime for a bag of chips not too long ago.

Value is highly dependent on the current context, you can’t really look at past deals in a vacuum.

Giannis wants out of Milwaukee and the FO seems to be respecting his wishes for where he’d like to go. That will obviously affect their leverage…it likely won’t be a completely open market.

They’ll likely get a sizeable return, to the extent that the limited list of teams can best offer, but your current expectations will undoubtedly make you very disappointed.

That’s why the GSW offer being lauded as a “haul” is comical to me. If I’m Milwaukee, I’m not trading Giannis until the offseason at this rate

The Gobert, bridges, bane trades really fucked up the picks economy. Because obviously someone like Giannis would go for double the value any of them received, but it’s not possible due to the stepien rule. Good young players are gonna be the difference makers here, whether the bucks hold onto them or flip them for another multi-pick package like the Nets did with bridges 

He has 1 year on his contract….

If cavs were open to trading Mobley for Giannis isn’t that the best possible thing the Bucks could get?