Overall this is weird. Giannis hyperextended his knee pretty bad a week ago. The Bucks season is over and he’s had calf issues all season. Shutting him down is pretty logical and not even top 20 in the tanking moves done this season.

Statement would’ve made more sense for teams who started tanking a month into the season

he doing everything except initiating the divorce

Lmao Giannis has no shame, anything he can do to not state a trade demand

Bucks fans have to be exhausted with this prolonged breakup.

Just ask for the trade, it’s less embarassing than whatever is going on here

Us being forced to play Giannis in meaningless games only for him to blow a knee out and destroy any shred of a chance for this organization to get anything for him would certainly be very on brand for how our luck has gone lately.

He’s also still been pretty obviously hurt every time he’s tried to come back too early. He actually really shouldn’t be playing.

Then in the offseason we can here about how this was the thing that pushed him over on wanting out when in reality he’s been trying to leave for the last two years but wanted to keep his nice guy image.

Then the heat offer some trash and the bucks make a deal with another team and heat front office will tell their fans it takes two to make a deal 😂

Unfortunately, anti-tanking policies are only as effective as their enforcement

So you’re telling me there’s no way to implement or enforce such a rule, but the league will continue to wave it around as a threat. Cool.

This actually makes me fucking livid. I can’t be sure if this is just the NBA making us the whipping boy again, or if it’s just Giannis feeding shit to the media.

If anything we’ve been the poster-boy for good behavior doing our best to stay competitive when we should have clearly taken a gap year. We rushed Giannis back early in the season to compete only for him to reinjure himself. Then we bring him back AGAIN to try to keep our play-in hopes alive and at least have the good sense to just give him more rest when it became apparent it’s not happening and he’s still not quite 100%.

We all know there are teams out there legitimately doing everything they can to lose for a high lottery pick, yet we did everything we could and are basically locked into the ⁹⁄₁₀ pick and it feels like we’re about to be punished for it. Fuck all the way off.

Fuckin Giackass

Giannis: I love the Bucks

Also Giannis: I fucking hate the Bucks

What is he even trying to do at this point? He wants to leave the team and theres no hope of us making the playoffs this year. Are his intentions to prevent us from landing a good pick too?

I’d love to hear less about bucks and giannis until a trade or move has gone through

This whole dog and pony show is far worse than just fucking asking for a trade.

PR to get the $280m/4yr deal from whatever team trades for him this summer

Wow, I cannot wait to see a big drama now.

I mean this is what a players union is supposed to do/say?

Can’t believe a guy is getting ridiculed for wanting to play the sport he loves and give kids that go to the game a lasting memory. Smh

It’s getting ugly with Giannis and the bucks

Please just trade the man in the off-season, I can bet we’re all collectively tired of this

Luckily this is the last year the Jazz will tank (they sent their pick next year in the Jaren trade), so at least the strict punishments on tanking will start next season when the Jazz tank is over

Lauri can rest with his hip impingement for the next 19 days as the strict tanking rules aren’t in effect yet

Giannis is such a weird guy to me. He obviously wants to leave the Bucks, but keeps trying to do it in the most passive-aggressive way possible.

Just ask for a trade and stop being so fake.

Giannis doing everything to indicate that he wants to be traded EXCEPT not actually saying it. Dude needs to embrace his villain arc and tbh I don’t even think people will be mad if he actually aks out.

Leave us out of your relationship drama.

People have started saying Giannis is injury prone and clearly Giannis is worried about getting that rep and ppl not wanting him anymore. So he’s going to the principals office to tell on them and say they won’t let him play

Giannis had his opportunity to request a trade and he didn’t want to be the bad guy so he sat in limbo passive aggressiveness all trade season. Nobody cares anymore lol. Stay with the bucks, you had your chance

“WILL GIANNIS BE SHUTDOWN? BET ON KALSHI NOW”

What’s the statement?

who cares tis not like hes making them win any games

Reminds me of the Dwightmare with him putting his arm around SVG during an interview acting like everything was fine.

NBA players have to fight their own teams to play basketball 😭😂

That is actually ridiculous

Not saying I support tanking, but if you don’t want to be traded and you have a hyperextended knee, wouldn’t you want to work with the team on ensuring your lottery odds? I don’t get it.

I don’t really care about Giannis anymore tbh, whatever he’s dissatisfied with in Milwaukee is entirely his fault

Just another episode in the hit soap opera Days of our Bucks (I lost track of how many episodes we’ve had)

Giannis is legit the least likable star in the NBA to me lol. Go make more off kalshi scams u unskilled bum 

Giannis wants to play on a team that can compete for titles. The Bucks need to get a good draft pick to even have a chance to build around him. And if he wants to be traded to a contending team, it’s way easier to do in the offseason provided he didn’t get hurt again. 

I literally do not understand what he’s trying to accomplish here 

Did Cam Thomas get waived for asking Giannis why he doesn’t just ask for a trade?

Pratners baby

Smart man he knows his popularity is dwindling in Milwaukee so if the Bucks by some miracle get one of these Cam Boozers like players its over for the Greek Freak

He’s getting traded

Lmao I doubt the Milwaukee Bucks give a shit anymore.

This is getting almost as bad as Dwightmare.

I’m honestly surprised how many of these comments are criticizing Giannis for wanting to play. There must be something I’m missing as to why he’s obligated to sit out so they can increase the chances of keeping their pick

Everyone talking about Giannis but why are the bucks choosing to stay on this ridiculous ride?

The longer they drag their feet, the longer it will be until the next fun era of the bucks begins and for what? To go 32-50 instead of 22-60? Are bucks fans enjoying seasons like this?

Why the hell does the league hate Milwaukee so much. Giannis just got hurt!

He just got hurt again and the bucks are 8 games back from the 10 seed with 11 games left to go. Giannis could come back, play his heart out and the bucks could win out the rest of the way and still most likely not make the playins.

if the NBAPA is worried about tanking, they should be focused on the 2 teams with over 30 combined losses in a row and not a team that literally just beat a playoff team this weekend.

How do I profit from this on kalshi?

If they were just gonna do this they should’ve traded him.

There were no typos in the original release.  

The irony drips thick…

For decades NBA and NFL teams demanded injured players do battle for the short term good of the team. They’d shoot ‘em up with steroids (cortisone) every game of the playoffs.

Now they want to put ‘em out to stud and it isn’t even to screw ‘em out of minutes/games played bonuses in the contract, the old-fashioned way…

I’m not convinced this isn’t just another Kalshi play.

It’s crazy to say this shit but not one word about the kings or the jazz. Like Utah is openly sitting their starters in the 4th of the game is close at all

FUTURE LAKER.

We’re getting 2 generational big men from the Bucks: KAREEM AND GIANNIS

NBA/Players Association and their selective enforcement. One third of the league is tanking and the choose one team to make a statement on.

They don’t really care, only reason is cause Giannis pushed for it.

This drama can’t end soon enough

If they just sit Giannis they will have an extra 7 percent increase in the lottery by losing out

This is like my high school breakup all over again.

Gaslighting final boss

Didn’t he like go through a whole thing at the deadline with a snarky social media post about how he was never leaving?

Fucker is going Maxx Crosby on the Bucks lmao

Does Giannis really think people would’ve thought less of him if he asked out? Like him doing this song and dance probably hurt his rep more than asking out would’ve.

Holy spelling errors.

Can any bucks fans tell me how the fan base feels about him? I’m generally curious.

giannis has been a total BABY bitch about this ENTIRE situation and nobody will be able to convince me otherwise

its honestly pathetic for a player of his calibre

Reading the comments, I don’t get it. Do Bucks fans really want to get rid of Giannis? It sounds like he wants to be in Milwaukee and he plays his ass off when he’s on the court. What more do you guys want?

I mean the Bucks are not gonna finishing better than 9 or 10 in the draft. This is less a tanking decision more than a “season is over and our star player risks his health playing at this point” decision, which I don’t think is really fair to prosecute given it’s in service of protecting players health.

all this shit with giannis and the bucks is tiring and if i’m gonna be honest, should get investigated. call me crazy, but to edge the league with this trade shit just to stay in milwaukee, AND get into a partnership with a gambling company is sus

It’s not tanking to rest Giannis. It’s protecting his health and the teams investment, a thing that teams have done for years and years and what high seeded teams do once their spot is secured

This is so stupid. Giannis wanting to play makes zero sense. If he wants to stay and gets hurt it hurts the team. And if he wants to go and gets hurt he tanks his trade value. There only 10 games left man. Just sit out and collect your millions.

Funny FVV is injured this season and gets plenty of time for his union job.

Really wish MIL would’ve just dumped him before the deadline so we can be free of all this

knee problems, calf problems, over 30 let’s give him $100M a season

Ok but he’s injured right? Like that’s documented yes? So why is this even a discussion?

It’s Carry Over Lottery Allocation time!

He brought a ring there he has the right to ask for a trade.

Anyone who says the Bucks tanked this season has no clue what tanking is.

Please top 3 pick please top 3 pick please top 3 pick

I’m fucking tired boss

Giannis saw Maxx Crosby, and said - yes that is the path lmao

If he wants to play let him play

He’s gone

NBPA putting out a formal statement about this tells you how much players hate it. The rule was supposed to help the product but all it did was force guys to play through minor stuff and risk bigger injuries. Scrap it.

Pratners????

Can we have him, pretty pls?