[Charania] The Milwaukee Bucks believe they can build a contender around Giannis Antetokounmpo this Summer and get him on board with remaining with the team long term.
“Babe we can make this work”
“Let’s have a baby”
“Let’s have a baby” was waive and stretching Dame and signing Miles Turner. I think we’re to “we’re pregnant again, let’s stretch our finances to buy the biggest house we can afford.”
We’re deep into “I think we can make all of this work if my Bitcoin play pays out” territory here
this is nearing “i put it all on the bills to win the super bowl and the wife is PISSED”
Can confirm, wife is pissed
“I think I’m thinking that I’d like us to… maybe… have an open marriage”
So they’re going to let Giannis play for Panathinaikos half the year?
Let’s have a third baby.
Dame and Turner were the first two
Literally the first thing that popped in my head reading that headline lol
“I’m already prego and the baby’s not yours”
NO JOKE LMAO
I just spit out my water at the squat rack
Band-Aid Babies around the world feel the depth of this comment
For real, this is like the third time and many therapists visits.
I’m sorry baby I didn’t mean to take you for granted
You guys remember the blowjob bell
“No it never does, I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might…. But it might work for us.”
Uhhhhh…..how?
By trading for Dame and Myles Turner of course
Personally I think they buy-out Turner out and stretch his contract over 4-5 years.
Then with the cap space manage to land a huge free agent signing like Zach Collins
That tracks. The bucks do love signing former Portland legends.
right lol. I’m still flabbergasted by how ppl (bucks fans) were treating the Myles Turner signing like they just acquired prime Hakeem.
With the power of friendship
Through the power of friendship
Worked for the Brewers
Right up until getting slapped by a big market team but that’s just baseball ain’t it
Shit, maybe it’ll work for y’all
-family
He’s going to sign that supermax extension, so they have no choice.
Ja-Giannis-Turner, then flipping their lottery pick (and whatever else they have for assets) in an effort to bring in one more big name.
I don’t think they can put a favorite together, but I could see them retooling into a second-round playoff team at least.
Not that I want to do this - but they could also dangle their ‘31 and ‘33 picks which are super valuable. It would be idiotic, but there are still ways to put pieces around him.
I can live with that if it keeps Giannis on the Bucks for longer. I watched 10 years of horrible Bucks basketball before Giannis and I can survive 10 years of horrible basketball after Giannis.
Seems so weird to see a ‘31 and ‘33 pick, in writing. I swear those picks are sixteen years away.
If they’re serious about building a contender.. They’re going to have to. Which I agree with you would be absolutely idiotic but you guys are just so limited at this point
By trading for Zach Lavine of course!
Draft Picks Ernie
If the Warriors offer was so great, how come the Bucks 2031-2033 picks aren’t equally as good? They’ll be in exactly the same position as GS would be. Late career Giannis picks.
i believe i can build a rocket and go to space this summer
Hey guys, I think the stripper really likes me
Except this stripper actually does like the bucks lol
Doesn’t matter if the strip club can’t surround the stripper with enough talent to compete with other strip clubs.
We don’t all get to be James harden and get our jersey retired in one
You as well?!
Man, she told me that she felt a connection with me that she has never felt before..
& that she wanted to go somewhere more “private” to explore this connection!
Anora (2024)
The Rocket is more plausible.
I’m building a time machine with toilet paper that was used wiping my but after a heavy night out and taco bell. This weekend.
go back and smack me in the head for not listening to my roommate when he wrote his senior thesis on bitcoin back in 2013.
Try Kerbal Space Program
“just let it go bruh”
Bucks plane seeing flying in the direction of Turkey. Quote from the rep on board “We’ve seen what they’ve done for balding men and hope they have more miracles”
Maybe LeBron’s German doctor can heal basketball teams too
Shams it’s over. Get out of my car now
tbf, it’s not Sham’s fault that people post everything he says on ESPN like it’s news
He has carefully and deliberately built a living out of the things he says being news. It very much is his fault.
Nothin he said was wrong - they was shoppin around Giannis
Whose fault is it for saying those things in the first place?
lmao, he shouldn’t report info he gets? that’s his job
It’s the fans fault for posting information coming directly out of Sham’s mouth? Moronic ass statement
Shams feels so much more oversaturated to me than Woj ever did. Maybe it’s just personal preference/bias and I’m totally misremembering lol. Probably just sports media in general getting worse and worse everyday.
You are misremembering.
Definitely misremembering. WOJ would constantly post tweets, go on ESPN talk show, AND he would even write his own articles. Lmfao what are you on?
I didn’t like Woj either, but he at least seemed to hold his tongue moreso until something concrete materialized. The big Sham will throw out whatever and hit very rarely
Much as Shams pisses me off, the enshittification of the trade deadline is primarily due to the new CBA - still can’t believe they introduced that, has made the league less fun imo
all bc CJ McCollum was salty he would never win anything
Giannis: Well, did it work for those people?
Bucks FO: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but … But it might work for us.
Bucks FO this summer: I wonder if the sad I would be without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you.
Was going to post this same gif
If they win the draft lottery for the second pick…and then the Pelicans get the first pick…maybe…
You mean the Atlanta Hawks draft first overall? Cos Pelicans traded their unprotected 2026 FRP to the Hawks a few months ago
That’s what I meant. The Pelicans pick would be first overall (to Atlanta) and the Bucks would be second overall. Because the Bucks have the worse of their and NO’s pick. The Hawks have the better of them.
Ah righto
I’m so fucking tired of this Giannis drama man
Same, at this point just stay in mediocrity bro. lol
He can be this generations dirk; win a chip for a team then just chill for a decade.
At least Dirk never beat around the bush with his intentions to stay or not
To be fair, Mark Cuban was endlessly amusing and a clearly better employer at the time.
clearly better employer at the time
As long as you were specifically Dirk, and not a female employee.
Oh ha, I forgot that.
lol k
To be fair, it’s coming from another team “Other team’s believe that….”
I dont blame the bucks. Giannis is too much a coward to just ask out.
Until he actually does - keep filling seats and making money as a org. Can’t hate them for it.
I blame Giannis for being to scared to just say I want to leave
They’re not filling seats this year. Arena capacity is at 55% and they lost a shit load of season ticket holder renewals
Now imagine what it’ll be when he finally leaves the team
Don’t doubt it. We used to get two free tickets with a $7 frozen pizza in the early 2000s
they ned to fire doc to inject some belief in the team to change attendance. most bucks fans know that this team is never going to do anything as it stands. they get embarrassed by bad teams at home regularly. Really dont understand why they haven’t fired him yet.
I think Giannis deserves some of the blame. It’s like LeBron’s 2nd stint in Cleveland. At a certain point, the player needs to commit too or else the FO is stuck making a bunch of half-competitive moves without the ability to build momentum from collecting assets in the interim.
for the love of god enough
Hold the trade market hostage —> do nothing true combo
Lmao
Milwaukee seemed delusional, but i guess it’s best not to leave any doubt.
That whole org will get fired.
WITH WHAT PIECES
Cheese
Lego’s..
People would’ve said the same thing about Phoenix this past summer
Suns are not a contender, just a decent team
Fuck off.
Both Bucks and Giannis are annoying, they are going to do this BS again next season. The ship has sailed for that team
“I underestimated how delusional the Bucks front office is” Shams
Now this ! Is delusional
Can’t blame them for trying until the bitter end. How often does a small market team get a Giannis-level player who actually genuinely likes the city he plays for? Most would be never to once every 50 years at most.
This is exactly what everyone is missing. If we were LA or Miami, trading him makes sense because you’re gonna be able to sign stars in free agency. The bucks trade Giannis they may not have another player of his caliber for decades.
Literally since Kareem. With some Ray Allen reprieve
Yep, and they make sooo much money off of him. There’s just no way they trade him unless he actually demands out.
Now I see why woj left.
Woj probably slept 8 hours last night and is now sitting with a whiskey watching Shams run around with his hair on fire.
HAHAHAHHAHA WITH WHAT DRAFT PICKS TO TRADE with what players. Holy fucken delusional. Drug test the whole FO now.
They’ll have 2 picks and a swap. They could do something dumb like trading for Kawhi or another problematic star.
I was told those late career Giannis picks are the most valuable assets in the league!
Or is that only if they belong to Golden State?
Have they seen Detroit/ Boston/Knicks/Cavs rosters? How tf they think they can compete next year? Hell my Hornets have a way better trajectory currently than the Bucks with Giannis
Now that is next level delusion. Every move they’ve made to improve the team around Giannis since their title they have gotten worse.
It’s kind of amazing how nearly every move has been the wrong one, both in coaching hires and roster construction.
Just very reactionary stuff. They’ve fucked it up so bad the only way out is to trade Giannis and start from scratch, and they aren’t willing to do that so when they inevitably to have to move off him, they will somehow fuck that up too.
Bucks have been acting beyond foolish for 2 years now
put shams in timeout from posting about Giannis.
With what cap space?
And this is why Giannis needs to stop being cute with his words and make it CLEAR his time with the Bucks is done.
This is like the elevated version of being that overworked engineer who carries the tech roadmap while there’s some middle management guy assigned to feed you breadcrumbs and tell you “You’re my guy, see all we do for you?” to keep you on while the company cuts every corner they can and gradually burns you out. Meanwhile you’re still somehow conflicted on whether to move on because the money is kind of good, you’re familiar with the environment, and you weirdly get off on being in demand.
When you keep trying with your future ex
Ngl, Giannis is an idiot. Might as well retire a Bucks and enjoy playing meaningless basketball. Ask out or leave us alone
We are long ways from being a contender. I dont know if we have the firepower to get a gamechanging player.
… Good luck with that.
They couldn’t hack it in the East with Haliburton and Tatum out for the season, but sure, next year will be different
Gonna fuck around and lose him in FA in 2027. Lmaoooo
I don’t blame them, the Dame stretch and Turner deal were so egregiously all in that it makes sense that they’re trying to keep the ball rolling.
I’d say fuck it, shut Giannis down for the year, tank into Dybantsa, trade for Ja and see what happens.
I believe I can fly
….no, no they are not
Any team with a healthy Giannis will be competitive. People are just big mad they are keeping him which was always the most likely outcome regardless of what you heard from the pundits.
so fucking bored with this shit lol
Literally every single deadline
Oof
The Doc Rivers delusion.
Not looking forward to the shams victory lap when Giannis eventually gets traded after he was wrong a million times
Giannis retires from the NBA to go play one last season in Greece.
Shams announcement tweet:
VINDICATION!
LMAO. “We think we can get a higher yield in the offseason.”
they missed the boat with Trae and AD getting traded for peanuts
idk if there’s anyone of real consequence that’s available for a bunch of nobodies and a 2031 1st, and that’s all the Bucks have.
It’s unlikely they do it at the deadline. But come draft night they’ll have their 26, 31, 33, and a 32 swap.
Which, according to the sub and ESPN is more than enough to get off bad contracts and get Giannis. So if it’s enough for Giannis it should certainly be enough for the Bucks to retool.
I think it’s more likely Giannis accepts the fate of the Bucks and just stays with them until retirement.
Watching the Bucks front office turn down actual trade offers for Giannis just to keep him on a team where Kyle Kuzma is the second option.
Alright Giannis, so after we trade Kuzma for SGA and KPJ for Jokic, we are right in this thing
Every year
Rinse and repeat, every single season
I’m tired of this dude. Just let him rot on the bucks until he retires. Every year he wants to leave and then backtracks
Bucks and Giannis are really a good fit for each other.
They CAN make it work. I understand the media campaign to remove Giannis from Milwaukee is convoluting the facts for so many nba fans…
Bucks are 6th lowest in payroll this season, well under the 1st apron and have MLE $ to spend. Bucks have a few talented young rotational players and are a decent coach and a top 20 2nd option for giannis away from being competitive. They have a 1st round pick this year (worst of pelicans bucks) and considering GA will be out til march, it’ll be a lottery pick.
I’ve seen dozens of trades go down to offload salary for draft capital. For whatever reason NBA fans believe the bucks are banned from obtaining picks in trades lol. Bucks can work in free agency and obtain draft capital through player trades if they desire. Trading giannis is not the only want to obtain picks. Whatever picks they got back for giannis are useless as Giannis theoretically would move to a contender.
Giannis represents the entire franchise. Giannis and the bucks are synonymous… Giannis owns franchise points, games played, blocks, rebounds, assists and he’s 50 something away from steals. Giannis brought this team a title, raised his family here, found solace from a hard life and created generational wealth for his family. He’s part of this community. Giannis has always stated as long as the team can compete, he’s here. The organization should continue to do what it takes and learn from past mistakes and start using modern tactics to develop young players and picks internally and set giannis up for a competitive remainder of his prime and and an easy ride into retirement on the coattails of internally developed youth
I wish more teams did this you barely see this garbage in other sports
lol
This shit is so annoying man.
Hahaha
They been trolling us the entire time
Get ready to be playing narrative flip flop for the rest of the season everyone
Don’t even want him on my team anymore. Yeah maybe a bit of sour grapes, but fuck this guy man. “No pencil but still drawing all the attention” yeah and these are the last headlines you’ll get. He will never contend again
Give it a rest. Just let him go
I never want to see this dude’s name again
Totally and the first step in creating this contender is to trade for Zach Lavine who is a fantastic player with absolutely no flaws.
if they trade assets for a panic buy I’d build a Doc River statue at my home LOL
Yeah right but then they need to tank hard to get a top 4 pick in this draft, and giannis is goinf around saying he wants to make a play off push. Man he is dumb, my opinion of him in rhe last 6 months has drastically changed.
Good luck with that
They can
But if Giannis won’t sit his ass down this year he will fuck that vision up
I’ve heard this before. No personal experience.
I’m sorry Milwaukee - this must be so annoying
ban shams from this sub
Dude I’m so close to muting “Giannis”
Maybe having a baby will save their marriage
Oh they coping
With what cap space? They are already capped for next year unless they move someone. That lillard 22m is still hitting every year until 2030
*Fast forward 7 months- “The Milwaukee Bucks realize that they can’t build a contender with the 3 Antetokounmpo brothers”
They’re really going to make him put on the fat suit then trade him as an expiring lmao
Nobody in this relationship wants to be the bad guy
They so dumb 🙄
yes… ha ha ha… YES
Aite
I too dream of winning the lottery
Bro’s about to be held hostage
Oh brother
hope they do something dumb and way over pay for ja lmao
I don’t really see the avenue tbh, doesn’t mean there isn’t one but man it’s tricky considering they aren’t close right now.
They could get lucky in the lotto and get a high-ish pick, that’s of course contingent on losing more and Giannis not coming back anytime soon. Even then though it better be an immediate impact because even 2 years from now you’re looking at a Giannis who may not be an mvp type player.
You could also trade 2 firsts plus a poo poo platter of contracts for someone like MPJ but idk if that really moves the needle contention wise and it also fucks their future even more.
Warriors and Bucks front office surging in the propoganda olympics. It’s fine if you just want to hang out and be mid and have a play-in showcase, but I don’t understand the point of rushing to the press and yapping all the time.
Shams blink twice if Giannis has a gun to your head and is forcing you to tweet this out. Almost feels wrong for Shams to be posting about Giannis staying lol
This is as likely to happen as them building a contender around me
Bless their heart.
hell yeah bucks you got it
Bucks trying the Stockholm Syndrome strategy on Giannis
Shams credibility 📉
If there is anything with all of this it’s that you can’t say the bucks organization haven’t tried everything to build around Giannis. Have to give them credit for doing everything humanly possible to build around him.
I’ll be shorting that all day long.
Sham
Insanity
Giannis should have honestly asked out years ago. Him and the bucks can keep living in this toxic relationship lol
Jon Horst
Stop please
Sure you can
We hear ts every month bro, we don’t care anymore
Let the great experiment begin!
NO! NO! I CANT DEAL WITH ANOTHER FUCKING YEAR OF GIANNIS TRADE RUMORS
Wasn’t Myles Turner signing supposed to be the move last time to convince him to stay?
Japanese soldier that kept fighting…let it go bucks
lol.. not with this walking plague of a Coach.. everywhere Rivers goes the franchise goes to shit. they’re also stuck with the Lillard contract. Bucks are delusional. Saying this to save face and try to keep Giannis happy.