[Charania] The Golden State Warriors have officially ended their pursuit of Giannis Antetokounmpo. Golden State was of the belief that Milwaukee is not serious about trading their 2x MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo at the deadline.
Does Shams stay awake all night?
he showed his screen time feels like he sleeps for like 3 hours from like 4-7
I bet it’s the worst sleep of his life lmao. Basically praying that nothing happens for 3hrs
He might just sleep and have his ringtone on high volume so if anyone were to call him it would wake him up
I am an on call SRE and I do this. It works well enough but it’s nothing like the sleep I get when I call out of work, turn off my phone, and really fall asleep. It’s a different kind of sleep entirely.
Damn I’m an SRE that doesn’t have on call thanks to follow the sun. Never quitting my job hope I don’t get fired lol
I’m calling him at 4:30 to giggle and hang up
Imagine him getting waken up at 5:30 and it’s just a trade like “Dalen Terry for Guerschon Yabusele”
Honestly he might prefer the smaller trades while he’s trying to get some sleep, with a deal like that it’s post on socials and back to bed
However if he’s waken up by a Luka-AD type trade, he can say goodbye to trying to sleep for the next 24 hours
Probably has his phones vibrate wired into electrodes that will shock him awake if someone texts. No wonder Woj quit that life.
Getting paid millions to break news like this 1 week of his life. What a tough life!
He more than likely has assistants working his socials when he is asleep or not readily available.
Shams Jr. staying up while Sr. Takes a nap.
He definitely has assistants on standby to wake him up or even tweet on behalf of him if some trades are inconsequential
He has a team to take the night shift
I think they actually believe he’s doing it all himself lol
He dreams about every possible trade so he’s ready to hop up and tweet at a moments notice
I promise he has people that keeps with his phone when he sleeps.
Bro admitted on a podcast that he has no dating/social life and gets maybe 3-4 hours of sleep a night.
Gets paid but man does that sounds terrible.
Can’t all be like schefter where you pause having sex to make a trade tweet or whatever weird fucking thing he said unprompted
True love for the game.
Gotta respect it.
can’t these teams just tweet what he’s going to report anyway?? i just don’t get this whole system of teams & players going through Shams as their microphone, they have their own platforms
Ya once he started including “according to agent so and so” it never felt more pointless.
Hope he finds a balance eventually cuz I still remember that clip where he was spittin game to Kay Adams lol
I think Woj said that was partly why he quit because he was just too burnt out. He was afraid to do anything like going to a movie in case he missed something.
Wasn’t it because one of his friends died and he thought that he was prioritizing wrong things?
basically no, there was a profile awhile back about him being essentially superglued to his phone
wasnt part of that he won’t drive himself bc he needs to be on the phone
I just saw him glance at his phone during his segment on ESPN. I’m surprised he didn’t stop the show to tweet. Guess it was a “just in” news rather than “breaking” news.
If it’s in targeted periods of time like the trade deadline, I think he does, yes. I don’t think he does it every day of the year though.
Trade deadline and draft are like his Super Bowl
They’re waiting for the Bulls offer of 45 small guards and 500 2nd round picks
Just give us 20 more years. We can get there.
He wants to leave Milwaukee, not move next door.
I live in Chicago i saw Giannis buy an apartment down the street from me.
I think he wants to live near me guys.
Don’t forget cash considerations
55 sgs, 55 second round picks, 55 pgs,….I’m doing something…..
Milwaukee is being smart. Wait till the offseason. They can certainly get a better package then.
There’s been confirmation through the grapevine that Milwaukee wants to be a competent franchise… I don’t want to get graphic beyond that. The idea of it repulses me so much
that’s sick and unimagineable
we can’t be in denial no more, as much as we love Milwaukee and their fans. Where’d you think they might’ve gone, honey? So, we can get them back here , do something about it with better trades and signings
Fucking slander you ask me
One thing I do know, they can’t be part of this conference no more.
He was gay? The bucks?
That thing with Lamelo and Diabaté, it’s not bad
They’re dressed up like midwestern hoo-uhs
Turn that off!
Hold onto your cock when you negotiate with these cheese people
Wait, didn’t you post the exact thing about Sac? What’s the gimmick?
it’s my hobby Janish.. why you gotta belittle it?
Except they hired doc rivers …
counterpoint: giannis can’t be extended anymore, so he gets a ton of leverage and can force his way someplace under the fact that he wont resign
It’s not even necessarily about how good the packages will be, it’s about how bad they’ve been so far. At the very least you’ll have more bidders and possibly more desperation from some of the younger teams who could have a disastrous run with a roster they think is prepared to compete.
Maybe Okc chokes in the second round and throws their hat in the ring. Lots of things can change
Except OKC already won one and wouldnt be all that desperate
Get complacent after winning one and the next thing you know you’re firing your coach for Doc Rivers and your franchise superstar wants out
Lmao exactly
Ouch, bro. Ouch. This is an open wound.
If anything I’d argue winning one this early will bring them more desperation at some point. I’m sure espn will bring the SGA rumors if they don’t win another in the next two years
Yeah, feels like y’all got a bunch of calls just to feel out the market, no one went balls deep for Giannis so it’s fine waiting for the summer.
It’s not like y’all are in the rush anyways, Giannis is because he wants a shot at winning a ring again.
Or bucks can go scorched earth and force him to walk in free agency and none of the teams he wants to go to will have the cap space to sign him outright
Teams will absolutely free up cap space for the chance to sign Giannis, if it becomes clear at some point next season that the Bucks are not trading Giannis.
Except then teams would clear cap space and some teams already almost have enough projected cap in 2028. Miami for example would have cap space
This is the answer if the majority of owners really want to send a message to players trying to force their way out under the new CBA.
Then just rig the lottery to get Milwaukee a first overall pick later on I guess.
A bunch of teams have cap space including the Lakers
the warriors do 😀
but seriously, i think the clippers do too
if there is any clues indicating that, teams will make cap space. gianni’s is special enough for it
I assume the Bucks are betting that Giannis won’t do that, because he doesn’t wanna look like the “bad guy”.
But it’s a very risky bet.
Sigh Gonna hear about this more til the summer.
More news about Giannis being unhappy and wants to be traded but then Giannis publicly saying he loves Milwaukee and he doesn’t want to leave, and the cycle continues
It’s true. They really don’t owe Giannis his preferred destination. They need to maximize his return and recoup assets. They’ve done everything for him especially the insane waive and stretch of Dame’s contract, without getting a guaranteed extension from Giannis.
They really don’t owe Giannis
After all he’s done for the franchise?
Damn, what a waste of the last few years from Giannis’s standpoint lmfao
I agreed with you up until the waive and stretch fiasco last offseason.
That was the most brain dead short sighted desperation move I’ve ever seen a franchise do. They lost $20M in cap for the next 5 years to appease Giannis’ whims. They should’ve gotten an extension or at the minimum a public promise from him that he would extend.
But it proved their loyalty to Giannis. Future stars will definitely take note. No one can blame the Bucks at this point for making a decision that’s better for them in the long run.
If we trade Giannis (which seems likely) that 20 million doesn’t mean shit to us over the next 5 years and we’ll likely just flip Turner for picks anyways. It’s not a big deal at all
Tanking teams still use that $20M in cap space to absorb bad contracts and receive picks in return. It will make the rebuild longer and more difficult. I wouldn’t hand wave it away.
RemindMe! 5 Years
It hardly makes a difference, we won’t be handing out any big contracts any time soon
I get it but Giannis literally saved their franchise. Like that city doesn’t have a team without him. They went from having the worst record in the league the season before he was drafted to divisional contenders to champions. In terms of revenue, he has generated far more for them than this deal could ever cost them.
And the waive and stretch was an obnoxious misstep in this whole situation, but the Bucks aren’t blameless in this. They essentially sabotaged themselves with Doc Rivers. Having a good coach is arguably the most important thing to have a good winning culture and keep a good player like Giannis around. I’d go as far as to say that the whole waive and stretch fiasco doesn’t happen if you have good coaches that can be a bridge between the FO and their star.
The moment they’re on the other side of this era, they need to clean house on everybody who let this deteriorate in their FO and coaching staff.
Problem with that line of thinking is you almost never get equal value when a player of this caliber is available via trade.
You’re banking on all of that working in a vacuum.
Teams aren’t going to execute a mega-trade unless he gives them a clear indication he’s going to extend. He’s telling the world he wants to “be a Buck forever”. You also hear he wants to go to New York or LA. That eventually scares other teams away.
The closer you get to Giannis hitting free agency, the scarier proposition it is to trade draft picks for him, thinking he won’t stay.
It’s why people were scared to deal for Ohtani, until the Angels shut it down and said they wouldn’t actually trade him.
And then they’re gonna offer Giannis a contract extension.
If traded in the summer pretty much guarantees that Giannis will be a free agent in 2027, since he cannot be extended before the season. A team would be crazy to trade a haul for him. Luka Giannis duo looks more likely now.
Or, they could be pissing off Giannis who ends up saying “I will only sign an extension with team X. Everyone else who trades for me, know I’ll be a one-year rental”, and tanks his own trade value.
I thought that man was wearing no pants
Thank you I thought I was going crazy, and no else was mentioning it in the comments lmao.
The salmon colors pants were not the right choice
Don’t eat salmon if it’s that color bro
It’s not happening guys. Pack it up.
Definitely not for the Warriors
They are seething in the warriors subreddit lmfao, there was so much copium going on last few weeks
That offer was dogwater lmao. All the hype about that offer was media manufactured.
Yeah I know but you get downvoted into oblivion for pointing out reality
Rumor has it they will trade for Giannis in the summer and also add LeBron. Klay and Andrew Wiggins will return and they could be a spooky finals team. Trust me, I heard it on a podcast.
Insane the amount of delusional Warriors fans and even some people in this sub was staggering
“But but but 3-4 1st round picks and garbage salary filler is a good trade for Milwaukee”
But those picks could be anybody! Even a Giannis!
Yeah when the bucks said no to podziemski for Giannis straight up, that was the real signal that the Bucks were never serious about wanting to do a trade.
Tari Eason to the Bulls is back on the menu
Nah. Tari’s not a PG.
“We’ll give you Draymond, Podz, and a bag of Fritos”
“No”
“They’re not serious about a trade”
How are the Fritos the best part of that trade package?
Fritos won’t bite or punch you in the face
Podz must be a menace
ya man the 7 first round picks and swaps were totally not the main selling point of the trade.
Oh yes, cause Draymond and Podz were the highlight of the entire trade. I’m sure the Warriors didn’t offer a bunch of post-Steph picks in between that, huh?
Besides a 2026 pick that will not be high, the warriors have a first round pick in….. 2028, 2030, and 2032.
Stop it.
Post Steph picks are worth infinite
It’s pretty rare teams that don’t own their picks are genuinely ass. Basically need a team to already suck and then have half their team injured as well, like the Nets and Celtics or this year’s Pelicans.
Like you guys started absolutely horribly, if you had your own picks there’s every chance you would have stealth tanked the season at that point because you clearly weren’t getting any further than the play in. But you don’t, so play in it is. That’s not a great pick. Of course, you could always pick JDub with somebody else’s 12th pick, but that’s not the kind of thing you want to be relying on when trading away a superstar.
we just don’t really know when that is actually going to happen though. Like is he getting out of his prime? Yeah, but not as much as people are assuming. He has a very timeless game that doesn’t depend on as much physicality as other players. He can be hitting sky fuck threes into his forties for all we know. Then those 2032 picks are going to be worthless.
The Bucks were never trading Giannis for these middling packages, that’s why I was hoping the Warriors go after AD, JJJ or MPJ.
Instead they got Kristap, who if healthy could be of some help, but is far too little to improve what is a play-in or first round exit team at best.
Warriors are just collecting older expensive injury prone players at this point smh. I hate to see it cuz I want the Warriors to succeed and want Steph to have more success in his twilight years but the league has made it clear time and time again that adding older pricey former stars is not the successful way forward. Its glamorous and fun and attracts attention, but it doesnt win. The smart moves usually aren’t as flashy.
I mean, the problem started when Lacob/Myers braintrust drafted three straight bums with lottery picks
Adding older cheap former stars sometimes works really well, and I love when it does
Adding older pricey former stars never does
I feel like this is a lost season anyways as soon as Jimmy went down. No one outside of Giannis could turn this situation around.
Hopefully ya’ll could have a good off-season though so we still get to see Steph competing in his last good years
Windy somewhere crying eating a roast beef sandwich espn really spent a whole week shitting on the heat just for it to likely now be either the wolves or the summer
Bro I can’t stand windy
He for some reason just really overvalued the warriors picks. He talked about them like they were guaranteed 1st overalls
Idk why he made it sound like GS had such a nice package when teams would have ten times what they do in the off season.
Bc he’s a horses ass. Did you see him on nba live today? Weren’t talking LeBron so he threw a fit the whole time
😂 I saw that today what was that all about?? Dude looked mad the whole show and at one point I thought he was gonna cry lol
For real, like a giant baby sitting there the whole show. And his takes “others are like entitled to their opinion but here’s the only thing that matters” as he’s rolling his eyes
It’s so funny to me that the younger generation are somehow simultaneously huge LeBron stans and guy-who-stalked-him-since-he-was-a-teenager-and-made-a-career-out-of-it stans.
They really push Giannis to Warriors hard this week, Malika on NBA Today asked Iman Shumpert, would you trade Giannis to Warriors, he just said No! Lol
What do the wolves trade
Not Jaden :(
you don’t want draymond??
which team is unserious? the one with giannis or the one offering draymond thinking that moves the needle on a trade?
Just when you thought he couldn’t get more insufferable we put him on an ass team in a cold town with no Steph. I kinda wish it did happen just to see that.
Clearly the move was intended to give them a player they could flip to a contender for additional assets, I don’t understand why people are having trouble with this very basic premise
Cleary you didn’t hear pick heavy proposal
he doesnt mean unserious as in “the front office is full of incompetent people”. he means they’re unserious as in they are not seriously trying to trade giannis
/u/blue-zenith came to the conclusion over the last 24 hours that Sydney Sweeney would not be seeing any redditors at this trade deadline.
“They ain’t serious”
Just cause they didn’t take your terrible offer lol
They didn’t want to trade an MVP candidate for our over the hill head case and a guy we refuse to even play. They must not be serious about wanting to trade.
Thought my dude on the left was straight Donald Duckin it
There are times that color of pants work. Going on national tv is not one of those times
I am of the belief that Golden State is not serious about doing anything except riding out Curry’s ticket sales and then rebuilding.
They were willing to trade all their picks, and I’m sure nothing was off the table for Giannis.
They just didn’t have enough for what Milwaukee would want.
So don’t think it’s an issue of seriousness.
In past trades our FO refused to even put Podz or Kuminga on the table. No one takes us serious.
I’m not sure how true that stuff really was. The rumor that they have gotten Markkanen if only they would have included Podz? Probably not true. Not even sure what the best JK trade was rumored to be.
the Lauri and Podz trade talk is a blatant (and probably purposeful at this point) misremembering of what was reported: The warriors offereda combination but not all of Kuminga, Moody, Podz, and draft picks. They initially offered Kuminga, Moody, and a few draft picks. The Jazz said they wanted everything. Warriors said you can have Podz too, but you have to take out the draft picks from the trade.
Podz was not the sticking point of the trade. it wasnt the fact that the Jazz wanted literally everything
They wanted 4+ FRPs but apparently people only think it was Lauri for Podz and we said no
It’s also just hard to know what reports are true and not. People always talk about how some reporters are trustworthy and some aren’t, and it’s hard to keep track. Especially over time.
Plus it was Utah with Ainge, the Warriors were never gonna win that trade.
They didn’t want Podz, Jimmy/Kuminga and or Draymond???
Just go to Miami Giannis
They got Porzingus now they got their Latvian Giannis at home
Milwaukee not serious about getting an injured player and a bag of chips, yes.
Bucks will get Ja.
That was Pats last whale
Giannis staying til the summer 🤞🤞
So its between Miami and Minnesota
Think the odds he’s not getting moved until summer are pretty high at this point. If either of our offers was enticing to them seems like it’d be done by now and we don’t have any other realistic ways to sweeten those offers presently.
no it’s not happening
Or they just didn’t want ur offer lol
Considering Giannis is still a buck it sounds like they didn’t want anyones offer
Pack it up everybody, they didn’t want Draymond
warriors really thought the bucks were gonna accept podz, jimmy and kuminga
It wasn’t even Jimmy! It was Dray!
Petition to ban Shams as he reports fake news
Warriors are gonna average less than 20 wins a year for a while after curry retires lol
Problem with trading someone like Giannis is that nobody will give up anything of value…just lots of mediocre. GSW was offering dollar store stuff and saying “they aren’t serious about making a deal”
They def aren’t serious about it, it’s been going on since 2023
I hope the Warriors go for Lebron instead.
Warriors never had the assets to do the trade
Shams 0-7 on Giannis trade reports
Or maybe they hung up when all they got was a shitty offer
Lakers will probably get him for a snickers bar.
Thought that guy was wearing a blazer and no pants
Those have to be the worst pants Ive seen on TV
Bucks just wanted to create chaos and ruin chemistry of all other teams by leaking this news lol
Warriors supposed package was trash anyway. Imo only the media glazes what they hope for.
Lmao I thought buddy on the left wasnt wearing pants for a sec
I thought other homie was pantsless for a sec lmao
Note to self: don’t wear light-brown pants ever.
They thought Kuminga would get them Giannis and now that he barely got them Porzingus they trynna say the Bucks were not gonna trade Giannis anyway. Lmao
Not serious about their terrible offer, sure
The reporters made it sound like Warriors got ghosted after submitting their offer lol.
Sounds like it’s what really happened
Probably aren’t, getting real tired of this Giannis song & dance for the last 3 years.
Hope this means Bucks try to make Giannis happy and make a deal with us for Zach Lavine lol
Honestly looked like Minnesota was the only team making moves in preparation for getting Giannis but maybe they got played.
I love that this didn’t work out, not because I didn’t want Giannis, but I wanted proof for our dumbass fan base that the rational market for kuminga is garbage because the dude is cheeks. See you never and fuck you Lacob for putting us in this position and Game of Thrones Season 8ing Steph’s career.
He’s the 3rd best player in the world and y’all were offering trash players and trash picks. Gtfo…
Lol it’s not that bucks are not serious, the warriors dont have a package thats of value. I get they are offering 1st round draft picks when curry is close to 40, but no young assets.
He’s staying in Milwaukee. Come back to this comment at midnight tomorrow.
Waiting for summer is a mistake. Every team will have multiple players expiring, which will make matching salaries for a trade that much harder.
Butler has never been on the table for Giannis. He was guaranteed that by Warriors g.m.
Even if he was, the Bucks still would not want him.
Golden state: How about we give you Draymond green, who has a player option in 26-27. A role player, DNP, and a mids guard for your perennial MVP? GS intern: (^won’t ^dray ^just ^not ^pick ^up ^his ^player ^option ^and ^come ^back ^to ^GSW ^on ^a ^min?)
shhhhhhhhh
MKE: …No?
GS: These Jabroni’s aren’t even serious about giving us Antetokounmpo! WE OFFERED THEM PODZILLA!!!!
“…was of the belief that Milwaukee is not serious about trading their 2x MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo at the deadline.” …to YOU.
They won’t accept our shitty stuff so they clearly don’t want to trade Giannis.
We’re the Golden State Warriors and everyone should bend to our will.
Am I the only one that at first glance thought the dude on the left was wearing a blazer with no pants?
Shams is washed, bring back Woj
ESPN guys in shambles right now… The y must have bet on Giannis being traded this season. XD Though it could change in a couple of hours….
Milwaukee doing the right thing but for GS fans this is a gut punch bc there’s no way they can actually compete anymore. Everything now is just predicated on luck but also it was crazy to me that people actually thought Draymond was getting traded. For one where to and secondly why there’s no feasible way this team can woulda stayed relevant even with Giannas bc you would have been paying 3 players over 150M next year.
Bucks has been dangling Giannis for more than half a decade now, like a carrot on a stick. If he’s getting traded, it would have happened already
It’s probably due to the lack of sleep and waiting in hospital rooms all week but did anyone else think that dude on the left was not wearing pants at first?
Cool. So GS is stuck with Dray’s worthless ass.
Joe Lacob punted 7 years of Steph for a giannis pipe dream, and didn’t get giannis. Some of the most irresponsible, and selfish shit to do to your superstar
Well it’s not happening.
I have also officially ended my pursuit of a grand manor in LA
pivoting to Kawhi
Well, that and the fact that the Warriors have little of value to trade………..
Offered them Kuminga, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green for a top 3 player then accused the Bucks of not being serious. Ok then
video of Giannis and Warriors GM Dunleavy