S.I.’s Chris Mannix on Chances Rockets or Thunder Trade for Giannis | The Rich Eisen Show

S.I.’s Chris Mannix on Chances Rockets or Thunder Trade for Giannis | The Rich Eisen Show

What do the Bucks do now? Just check in with Giannis every day. Heat check. Hopefully not Miami heat check, but you know, like what what do we do here? I tell you, um, this is interesting because to my knowledge, there have been no substantive conversations between the Bucks and Giannis about the future. The dust is still settling on all this. Um, and they want to rightfully they want to give time for temperatures to cool. But it just seems like we’re heading towards an obvious parting of the waist for for for a couple of reasons. one, Giannis is never going to be more valuable to all the other 29 teams because he’s got two guaranteed years left in his contract. So, it opens it up to everybody. You’re not just a team like you’re not if you’re a small market team, you’re not acquiring this guy afraid that he might say, you know what, I’m not signed an extension. I’m going to go play for the Knicks or the Lakers. So, you’ve got a a window here. Um, and if you’re the Bucks, you’ve got teams out there potentially that could make you these massive offers. This is where the Bucks and John Horst, I think, need to be um aware. You’ve got to be able to smell desperation, right? Like in the last 10 years, there’ve been a couple of scenarios where teams have smelled desperation and hit home runs. The Boston Celtics when they smelled desperation on the Brooklyn Nets and traded away Paul Pierce and KG and got all that package back in return. and the Oklahoma City Thunder when they smelled desperation on the Clippers and got Shay Gildas Alexander in 407 first round draft picks. I think there could be the same whiff of desperation off a couple of teams this year. I think Houston number one is a team that, you know, saw what they were without with with this group. That’s what they wanted to do. They’ll collect data, figure out what they’re they look like. I think they realize Jaylen Green probably not the guy that can lead them to a championship. Um they’ve got Jaylen Green and they’ve got all of Phoenix’s draft capital for the next couple years which is going to be really valuable. That’s one team. Oklahoma City right now down 01. Lot to go long way to go in that series. But if they bow out in the second round for the second year in a row, they may start to get a little bit desperate because Shay Gildus Alexander is young but he’s not that young. Lou Dort is young but he’s not that young. They’re not a a bunch of whole bunch of 21 year olds like that have a long long long runway. They’re a team with its star in his prime coming off a probable MVP season. They’re a team that could make a huge offer. And if I’m Milwaukee and I can choose between offers of Jaylen Green and a bunch of good draft picks and maybe um uh all the draft picks that that Oklahoma City has to offer and Jaylen Williams, who I think could be James Harden 2.0. Like I think if you give Jaylen Williams room to to blossom, he could be a superstar in this league. I think he has that much talent. If you have an opportunity to pit two teams against each other in a bidding war for your star to get the rebuilding package that those other teams I mentioned got, I think it’s malpractice not to not to aggressively go out there and do it. So when you say Giannis has never been more attractive to all 29 teams. You’re you’re saying the Bucks won’t just call one team and say we’re thinking of trading him and just to you like they won’t do that. confident Rich saying that John Hor and that front office will not have a secret dialogue with Sam Prey in Oklahoma City to get a deal job done. So you that’s you can do it. I do. I think it’s got it. All right. Chris Maddox, a sports Illustrator here on the Rich Eisen Show. Catch the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from 12 to 3:00 p.m.

Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix joins Rich Eisen in-studio to discuss if the Milwaukee Bucks will trade Giannis Antetokounmpo.

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