Why A Giannis Trade is Not Happening
Hey guys. So, I know I talked about the Bucks a few days ago with the Miles Turner Dame stuff. And yeah, Giannis popped up many times in that video, but it was just brief mentions of me being like, “Well, he doesn’t want to go. They don’t want to trade him, so there you go. I figured why not do a video about it.” This is mostly going to be from the Bucks perspective in my eyes. I’ll just say for Giannis, I think it’s cool that he wants to be in Milwaukee. And some of this was after listening to Zack Low and Howard Beck talk about the Bucks and you know, Bill Simmons. He said he would just trade Giannis and all that. And this is nothing against Bill, but it got me thinking some and maybe you’ve seen it in other places. Of course, there is the obvious of just everything Giannis means to the fan base, to the franchise, and if Giannis was not on the team, the Bucks become irrelevant. Yeah, they could, if they really wanted to move him, they could get just an obscene amount of draft picks, right? They could get A+es from ESPN and CBS and whoever the hell else does like trade grades and stuff. And also, your fans now just don’t care for a while. And that while can be a very long time because let me tell you as someone who really got into the NBA in the mid200s even with the Giannis era the Bucks have still spent more of my life not mattering. And if they were to trade Giannis there is no guarantee at all that they get back to where they are right now with him, Miles Turner, a bunch of role players and a Damen Lillard waved and stretched contract that goes out for a while. I’ve already talked about the move, but Miles Turner is a good fit. I do think the Bucks are a playoff team in the East because Giannis is that good and the bottom of the East especially is pretty bad. The other thing too is that the Bucks do not have most of their own picks for the foreseeable future, right? And so even if you did trade Giannis and even even if you got the most insane draft pick young player hall that a team has ever gotten and you could definitely get that by not having your own picks, you’re still not going to be able to pull off a full rebuild. I mean, the only way you could get picks that could actually fuel a rebuild for you in a Giannis trade would be if you got picks that a certain team who wants Giannis owns that actually belong to another team and that team is bad, right? And so you think about, well, the Rockets have the Suns picks. Bro, the Rockets have two Suns picks left. And yeah, those are amazing assets that the Rockets can either use themselves or trade for something, but if I’m going to be putting myself in NBA irrelevancy for however long for a treasure chest of draft picks and the prize of those picks are two chances at getting a top guy in the lottery, that doesn’t feel great. Especially because whatever team I’m trading Giannis to is going to be good because they have Giannis. Now, specifically for the Rockets, you could get into the weeds of, well, is Amen in the trade for Giannis? Something like that, right? And I love Amen. He’s not going to be Giannis. And again, you still would not have your own picks. And this goes to just the idea of a rebuild and all that. Dude, look at the Jazz right now. Okay, the Jazz got so many picks for Goar and Mitchell and they got a little bit more for Conley. And what has happened? They’re It’s a few years later. They’re not good. Yeah, they got Markin and Kesler and we’ll see with Ace Bailey, but I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel for the Utah Jazz rebuild. The other thing that happened too, yes, they got a whole bunch of picks for Go Baron Mitchell, but the teams who got Go Baron Mitchell are good because of those guys. And so therefore, the picks that they got, like they’re not lottery picks. Don’t get me wrong, there’s value in a draft pick, no matter where it is. But if you want to imagine Giannis ending up somewhere, they got all the picks. Hooray. Well, guess what, bro? Giannis is going to drag whatever team he’s on to at least 40ome wins probably. And if he’s got good talent around him, then okay, they’re contenders. The other thing, too, is with the new lottery odds, lottery picks, they’re still very valuable, but they’re not as valuable as they used to be. Now, this is all hypothetical. We’ve seen rebuilds go extremely well. Look at the Thunder. And the whole thing was fueled by the PG and Rust trades, right? Well, those guys are now Giannis. Yes, Russ was extremely important to OKC, but I will keep on harping on this. Even after those trades, the Thunder still had their own picks. The Bucks would not. And if I own a future Bucks pick and they call me and say, “Hey, we’re trying to trade Giannis. Can you give us our pick back?” No, buddy. I want that pick more than anything. Now, I mentioned Houston, right? Houston was in a similar situation where they had already dealt picks. I’m pretty sure their own picks. They have to trade Harden because he’s forcing his way out. And now they are my most anticipated team to watch for this upcoming season, right? It took them a long time to get here, man. They were really bad for 3 years and they had the KD trade basically fall in their lap with what they gave up. But really what I’m getting at is this rebuild stuff is not a guarantee, man. They can still get picks, swaps, protections, Pelicans, Hawks situation, but you get what I’m saying. The other thing, too, so Giannis is 30. He’ll turn 31 in December. And one idea that I’ve seen talked about online is, well, how will Giannis’s game age? He’s very reliant on his strength and athleticism and coordination and all that stuff. I believe, assuming that Giannis does not deal with a bunch of injuries, it’s going to be similar to LeBron where I still think that Giannis is just so athletic right now that even when he does see some of that natural decline, he’s still going to be super athletic. I mean, hell, you look at Russ, and yes, I understand Russ totally different player at this stage of his career than what Giannis will be, what LeBron is, etc., but even Russ is still able to get to the basket. Results may vary when he gets there, but he can still do it. He can still push in transition. And then also, I mean, we saw Giannis be a better mid-range shooter this season. They were going with point Giannis towards the end of the season when Dame was out. Like, his handle and his passing game are there. So, I think Giannis will age very well, assuming that he doesn’t get unlucky with a lot of bad injuries. And I know he’s had some playoff runs messed up or just ruined by injuries, but for the majority of his career, he has not missed a lot of games. So there you go. There’s a chance this video ages really badly, but I don’t know. Just feel like talking.
hopefully this doesnt age badly
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if this doesn't age well then my bad
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They might have the worst front office in the league. the only way they can undo the damage is to trade Giannis, fire the gm and fire the coach. With owing dame 23 mil a year for the next 5 years and owing kuzma 25mil a year for the next 2 years you have no chance of building a contender.
The reason some rebuilds don't go well is the organization. Jazz front office is trash they drafted a guy who doesn't want to play for them and they traded collins for a banquet tv dinner and a pack of koolaid. Not to mention they passed an opportunity to trade markkanen when he had more value and they held on to clarkson for way too long.
Maybe teams just don’t want him, cuz he’s not that good?
4:11 but you just spent the last minute or so talking about how players aren’t Giannis, but a team will take lottery chance for a kid over Giannis?
Do the thunder not have the picks to get him? I can’t remember but all of their picks were from other teams. Aren’t some of those teams bad? I feel like it won’t happen, but off the top of my head they’re the only team that has any type of capital for this.
Thank you! Mf media always trynna trade this man since 2022 and ya'll keep buying into it.
Giannis is a big troll playing GM, probably learned it from LeBron.
He's not actually gonna leave unless the circumstance are right.
Therefore, he's resorting to pressuring the front office.
I love Giannis and I know his value but still at this point I wouldn't even trade Amen Thompson for Giannis straight trade.
completely unrelated but i truly do think if you had to compare amen to anyone from playstyle early on, it would be giannis lmao
If giannis shot 75-80% from ft‘s he would be the best player itl, with him being so sh!t from the line, it makes his offense just so much worse, it puts a limit on his offense, Jokic and SGA led offenses will always be so much more efficient and consistent compared to Giannis and the Numbers show it
Giannis to the Knicks somehow.
The bucks are going to win 48 to 50 games
Funky is the goat
Well not this year because they already did everything he wanted
Never underestimate the value of these old heads in the NBA, The Nuggets had "UNCLE JEFF" GREEN and teams WANTED HIM after the Nuggets Ship
I really want giannis to be a lifer. He deserves what dame didn’t get.
So he’s not coming to Cleveland? 😔
Time to take his talents to the NORTH!
Russ to the Bucks? 👀
Giannis is a great player but he has been playing GM for years now and is not great at it. After every season they have meetings and then mysteriously defensive players and coaches are gone and the Bucks are sending out even more future picks for the next solution to their problems. I don't know why they even attend the draft at this point after they sent out 4 picks to get Jrue and then 3 more to swap him for Dame. At this point they won't draft a player in the first round until 2031 at the earliest.
Or you know…. Bucks get their own picks back. Pretty sure the Hawks have their picks right now 😅 Giannis stays in the east and Atlanta ain't far from Milwaukee.
Even if the bucks got the next 10 first overall picks in exchange for Giannis, that’s not worth as much as having him. How many guys drafted in that spot over the last decade have even the chance of being close to as good as Giannis? Wemby? Even then, it’s not guaranteed.
Nah, Bill's right.
This is the marshmallow test in reverse. The pain of losing Giannis is coming one way or another, and the team is choosing to make it hurt more later on just for the sake of delaying it, and without having the hope of a title in the intervening years to make it worthwhile.
you can trade for your own picks back with portland
GIannis is still developing. He has shown amazing midrange improvement, if he taps onto this bag , he would legit turn into a LeBron caliber player. Can pass, can defend , can score anywhere in the court.
They won't trade Giannis because their team will perform worse in the short term? Very insightful!
You hit the nail in the coffin, Just cause you get 5 first round picks you gotta count on that team to pull a 2014 nets and beyond. Giannis Will make a play in team to a top seeded playoff team. especially if you don't take the best players off that team that Giannis will go to. Gotta just thug it out, It seems that Giannis is very happy just being on the team that drafted him. He never really gives hints that he wants to be traded. tbh who knows what will happen next season. the east is so depleted with injuries Giannis might go on a crazy playoff run. DO I believe that fully? No but NBA is a crazy business and you may never know.
At least use game highlights like damn. One still the whole video?
Duck and Ham
Teams think they can rebuild like OKC when in reality although Presti is the one of the better GMs, they lucked out on Shai being an MVP player. 🤷♂️
3 years is not that long for a rebuild, some teams are bad for decades, rockets fans are lucky
Nets picks baby. God bless Danny Ainge
The closest guarantee you can get to being a competitive team is having a talent like Giannis
They have no picks until 2030 lmao yall are weird 🤦♂️ stop it with this loyalty bs
This is the plan cooked up by Joe Cronin of the Blazers, to keep Giannis with the bucks until their picks from the Dame trade come due.
Seems like the earliest this will happen is at the deadline but most likely next offseason if he even wants out
If they did not trade Middleton this would be a much different conversation.
The Bucks went 50 years without having a player of this caliber. They are not trading him unless he explicitly tells them face to face he wants a trade.
Giannis is going to stay with the bucks for 1 more year and after he will go play in Europe.
This new CBA is terrible. Why did the player union agree to it?
Your never getting equal value for Giannis and Jokic, there's no market for them.
Giannis to the Lakers for Austin Reaves straight up – every Lakers fan
Houston got lucky with the Sengun pick. That's why the rebuild worked.
So all these reasons have existed for years, yet that didn’t stop 1 million articles and videos about how Giannis is definitely getting traded. Did he or the Bucks ever say a trade was possible, no. But Shams did say that for the first time maybe he was potentially open to thinking about playing for another team at some point in time. Which is the biggest BS rumor ever. That was enough to spawn the million articles and videos. NBA coverage is flat out horrible. But don’t worry, we can move onto the LeBron opted in, “what does that mean” videos
Unrelated to the video by why does YouTube keep playing the Florida ad about the nba finals they ended almost a month ago lol
Bucks can’t afford to build around Giannis while he’s in his prime, if they lose him in FA then the franchise is fully fully cooked
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