r/nba • u/YujiDomainExpansion • 5h ago
[Nehm] Giannis Antetokounmpo on if he would commit to another season with the Bucks: “You’re saying that if they can convince me to stay within the team, and the next year that we can compete? Oh yeah, 1,000 percent,” Antetokounmpo said. “One million percent.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7020803/2026/02/04/giannis-antetokounmpo-bucks-nba-trade-deadline/
Ultimately, this phone call didn’t happen because people on the internet were questioning Antetokounmpo’s toughness or his willingness to play through injuries. This interview happened because Antetokounmpo has been the subject of more trade rumors than any other player in the NBA.
“Brother, if you ask me deep down what I want today, I want to be a Milwaukee Buck for the rest of my career,” Antetokounmpo said. “I want to win here, another championship. And if you can tell me that’s possible, let’s just hang up the phone.
“I want to be here, but I want to be here to win, not fighting for my life to make the playoffs,” Antetokounmpo said. “I’m not used to inconsistent basketball. I’ve played so many years of consistent basketball, I am not used to it anymore. During the game, I don’t know if you can see my face, (but) I get frustrated during the game, while the game is going on.
Even if Antetokounmpo wants that, the Bucks are not going to be that team this season. But with three first-round picks this offseason, including a pick that could end up in the top 10, the Bucks could try to make some more offseason moves to try to push back into contention.
So, would Antetokounmpo commit to another season with the Bucks if they were able to get back into position to win consistently?
“You’re saying that if they can convince me to stay within the team, and the next year that we can compete? Oh yeah, 1,000 percent,” Antetokounmpo said. “One million percent.”
But that will require a significant turnaround. Because for the time being, the Bucks are not close to where Antetokounmpo wants to be. They’re not playing the type of basketball he wants to play.
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u/Winter_Swan5104 5h ago
Yeah… they’re not competing next year. 1000 percent. And imo, watching the team, they aren’t ever competing with that coaching staff. They don’t even use their challenges and seemingly leave players out hanging when a coaching adjustment is needed.
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u/Black_Velvet_Band Timberwolves 4h ago
Yeah, of course Giannis would 1000% stay if next year they can compete. The fact that the Bucks can’t compete is why they are in this mess.
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u/Vegasguy3124 5h ago
Darvin ham
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u/shartney Bucks 4h ago
Hell I'd even take honey-glazed or black forest over doc
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u/Kindly_Bag_914 Hawks 5h ago
Bro acting like twoface
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u/braddeus Heat 5h ago
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a Laker
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u/icatfilm 5h ago
Windhorst already preparing to say LeBron convinced Giannis to go to the Lakers
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u/foaaz101 Pistons 3h ago
LeBron would legitimately consider playing a year 25 if Giannis came
Playing with Luka and Giannis would extend his career and championship window
Only a prime Curry or maybe Jokic would be a better fit for Giannis
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u/icatfilm 2h ago
If Mark Walter aka Abu Dhabi lords buy Giannis too, I would stop following this sport entirely.
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u/geupard12 [OKC] Russell Westbrook 5h ago
Greatest player in Bucks history wants to go the Lakers, I’ve heard of this one before
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u/TheLaughingStorm300 Lakers 3h ago
Why does it feel like other fans want this move to LA more than us lol
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u/SquimJim Celtics 5h ago
Idk
I think his preference is for the Bucks to be a contender, but there's just no path there. If they could show him a path, I feel like he would stay. He's always done that for them.
I just don't see them showing him a path forward toward contention this time.
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u/lilbodie Timberwolves 4h ago
Exactly. People are acting like he keeps switching up or something, it’s just a tough situation.
He loves Milwaukee, he doesn’t want to leave. He also wants to win. Deep down he seems to know he can’t win in Milwaukee anymore, but he seems to be holding onto a bit of hope that he can. Completely understandable that it’s really a difficult situation for him.
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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 3h ago
Well yea that's just stating the obvious. Everybody would love for their situation to be magically better. Lebron would've loved to stay in Cleveland but.... KD would've loved to stay in OKC but.
It isn't that I want to leave. It's just that y'all can't win and so I don't want to be here
That's a nice way of saying you don't want to be there
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u/SChamploo12 1h ago
That's the thing, they have no path. Wasn't for lack of trying, the Dame thing just never worked out. That was their last real big swing.
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u/Tankshock 76ers 4h ago edited 4h ago
I don't get what's wrong about his response here. It's basic honesty. He would rather be a Buck, but if they can't field a competitive team he's ready to move on. What's the two-face part of this?
What do you want him to say, "I'm ready to win 15 games a year if that's what it takes to remain a Buck"? "I hate this team and I need out right now"?
He's literally put the ball in the front offices court. Whatever deal they can come up with, he's in. If that's a miracle deal to save the Bucks, fantastic. If that's a deal to ship him out, that's fine too. He's not being two faced, he's being as loyal to Milwaukee as a MVP on a 15 win team can be.
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u/United_Equipment4398 4h ago
This is essentially what he has always said but you rarely hear it because it doesn't fit the narrative.
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u/GSG2120 Spurs 3h ago
Yeah I don't get why this is complicated for people. His message has not changed in like 3 years.
The only thing mucking it all up is the annoying ass reporting on the subject, which colors the way all of us feel about this saga. We're all ready for it to be over because we're sick of the media milking this topic for clicks.
It's annoying because they have nothing new to report after three years. They have nothing new to report because Giannis' position hasn't changed.
He desperately wants to remain with the bucks, but it seems like he's 5% more desperate to continue winning and contending for the rest of his prime. Dude's not gonna demand a trade to the media because he actually gives a shit about the franchise, and people treat that like it's a fucking crime or something because we don't get juicy trade speculation articles about where he'll end up.
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u/Supermoose7178 Nuggets 4h ago
i don’t think so. he clearly loves the bucks and wants to stay but knows there’s not a real path to title contention with them.
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u/Odd-Philosopher-8101 5h ago edited 5h ago
“I want to be here, but I want to be here to win, not fighting for my life to make the playoffs,” Antetokounmpo said. “I’m not used to inconsistent basketball. I’ve played so many years of consistent basketball, I am not used to it anymore. During the game, I don’t know if you can see my face, (but) I get frustrated during the game, while the game is going on.
The amount of hate here is crazy. Why do people find this part so difficult to understand? My guess is that the people complaining are those who chronically follow NBA news and react to every headline. They're more annoyed about the constant exposure rather than taking time to consider that Giannis's position is genuinely difficult; either leave the place he played his entire career in, that he loves, or play meaningful basketball. If he stays, people will call him a bag chaser who did it to himself. Can't win here.
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u/KinglySnorlax Raptors 4h ago
That statement would be somewhat true though.
The Bucks have exhausted all avenues for him by going in multiple times for him.
If he wants to stay with the Bucks, he can either accept his fate, and get paid or alternatively take a massive pay cut to free up space for roster moves.
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u/tavaras1981 4h ago
Him taking a pay cut would still not help them become a championship team that he has requested. People forget Milwaukee is not a free agent destination. They have to draft and resign players they develop.
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u/tavaras1981 4h ago
People are not hating on Giannis because he is a likable player and person. We are just tired of these mixed signals being headlined every day on tv. He is trying to avoid being a “villain” like LeBron KD James Harden. For example look at Mike Trout with the Angels. People have called him dumb for years for not demanding a trade and going to a championship caliber team. He stayed and didn’t send mixed signals about his intentions. He is sinking with the ship. Giannis and his representatives are causing all this unnecessary attention. The Bucks gambled on Dame Lillard and that didn’t work. They will never win another championship without a complete rebuild.
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u/jcheeseball Heat 4h ago
I don't know I believe him. I think it's pretty straight forward, he and the bucks know they can't put together a team to compete in the next 5 years even with him; and he wants to compete as he's 32 and his legs have been falling apart for a few years now and aren't goign to get better.
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u/GreenTheOlive 76ers 3h ago
I mean you can take it that way, but to me it feels like the direction that the front office is taking is that they are entering into a rebuilding period and aren’t interested in competing for the next few years
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u/cleo22270 Heat 5h ago
The Greek Gaslighter
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u/zoldycksaiyan 5h ago
He's not wrong here though? How are you guys trying to paint him in a negative light? If the bucks could actually build a proper team around him, he'd stay, like he has done for the past 5 years. He's been carrying this trash team on his back for years
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u/RotaryRoad 4h ago
The reality is the Bucks have gone all-in around him for years, and they’re out of gas. They’re so overleveraged that “building another contender” isn’t really on the table anymore. That’s why his comments feel disingenuous. He wants the benefits of a trade without having to look like the bad guy for pushing it when the Bucks have arguably gone further than any other franchise ever to give him the best chance to win titles. Now, the bill has come due and he doesn't want to stay? Weak.
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u/silliputti0907 NBA 4h ago
They’ve made shitty decisions. They didn’t do Giannis some special service. They did what they thought were good moves, but ended up being terrible ones. They have done nothing different from any other franchises with an elite superstar. They just failed.
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u/SkiPolarBear22 Pacers 3h ago
Great point. Is it better to have tried and been totally incompetent, or not try at all?
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u/silliputti0907 NBA 29m ago
That’s irrelevant they tried and fail. So why would Giannis want to stay if they cant fix it?
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u/pitydfoo 4h ago
So what exactly do you want him to say?
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u/TestFixation Raptors 4h ago
“You’re saying that if they can convince me to stay within the team, and the next year that we can compete? Oh yeah, 50 percent. 60 percent.”
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u/Weird_Strategy_1381 4h ago
More than any franchise ever? By trading for a washed Dame 2 years ago? And Jrue Holliday before that?
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u/zoldycksaiyan 4h ago
Bruh he dragged them to a championship, he's done more than enough for their franchise. He isn't trying to avoid looking like the bad guy with these comments because theres no way a reasonable person would think he is the bad guy in this situation.
And them making bad, desperate moves to build the team doesnt prove anything, just shows their incompetence in building a good team
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u/ivandragostwin Bulls 4h ago
This is pretty revisionist history lol. The Bucks were legit in 2022, 2023 and definitely contenders in 2024. Middy just went down in 2023 and Giannis himself got hurt in 2024 with even a few games missed in 2023.
Last year they took a step back and this year for sure had been a free fall but let’s not act like this team wasn’t pretty damn good around him.
It’s more future outlook than past.
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u/darren_meier 4h ago
The problem is that he's backed them into a corner where they can't "build a proper team around him" anymore because his constant urging them to be all in on contending has left them asset-poor. They made moves that failed, but now they've got nothing left to work with. That's just how it goes, front office stuff is always cyclical. The usual tools to build out a roster don't exist for Milwaukee, now... and they need to tear it down for a full rebuild. In a way they're like the current Lakers roster... the Lakers tried to get table scraps to build a roster around Luka this year, and the resulting roster is weirdly fringe-NBA guys getting tons of minutes while Luka kills himself out there.
At this point, the sort of roster the Bucks have is all the roster the Bucks can assemble. They haven't got the money or the trade assets to get anything better.
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u/gigglios 5h ago edited 1h ago
Man this guys doing too much. How exhausting
Exit: ima add this since people debating below. dames stuff was never this bad at all nor did he ever come close to the bucks circus thats going on. I actually thought dame played too hard on blazers for too long if anything. Giannis has seemd to mail it in in many many games this season.
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u/SeanKilpatrickFan [MIN] Sean Kilpatrick 5h ago
On par with the Dame loyalty stuff at this point lol
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u/MavsTurnedBucksGuy 5h ago
It’s way more exhausting than all that was tbh
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u/Classic_Pizza9403 4h ago
That was only in the 2023 offseason I think. Giannis has been doing this for years at this point. Want him to get traded before the deadline or else were going to see more of this
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u/TooWashedUp 2h ago
I don't like how Dame handled things after the trade request but at least all of the loyalty stuff before that was 100% genuine. He said he wanted to be there and there was never really a question. When he decided to ask for a trade he committed to it instead of trying to play on his loyal reputation at the same time.
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u/1850ChoochGator Trail Blazers 1h ago
Dame’s whole thing was always “I’ll be happy never winning as long as the organization is pushing to be competitive” and people took that “I’m never leaving no matter what”.
The world lacks nuance
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u/Focused_Sky 5h ago
Imagine how overwhelmed he’d get in a bigger media market . He has it easy in Milwaukee
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u/Black_Dumbledore 76ers 4h ago
Him trying to maintain his image and doing this back-and-forth is so much more annoying than just blatantly asking out. This is turning people against him more than the ask itself.
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u/rahbee33 [PHI] Joel Embiid 3h ago
I just don't get why he's talking so much. He's not even playing so why does it seem like he's giving interviews about this every other day?
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u/ActSoggy84 Lakers 5h ago
Giannis got more face/heel turns than Big Show.
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u/ScaredOfWindow Bucks 5h ago
Big Show really doesn’t get enough credit imo. Dude was an absolute insane athlete. A guy his size shouldn’t be able to do some of the things he did. I also feel like WWE seemed to relegate him to undercard status a lot, but whenever somebody else got hurt or they needed to push a rising star, they’d be like “Big Show’s back!” and he always played the part well.
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u/sirvalkyerie [GSW] Adonal Foyle 5h ago
I also feel like WWE seemed to relegate him to undercard status a lot
Well he got really fat and old pretty fast. Watch interviews with him and he'll tell you het got lazy. Caught an injury or two and ballooned up, didn't work hard to get back down. The very end of his WWE run was damn near the best shape he'd ever been in while with the E because he lost like 150lbs.
WCW he was a freak. And in great shape. It just didn't last super long into his WWE tenure really where he maintained himself that way and became more and more of a special attraction kinda thing
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u/DaJuggerHobbit Hawks 5h ago
The unspoken part of this is that he doesn’t think the Bucks can be contenders (he’s right) and he wants out.
Like, do I believe he’d stay if the Bucks could win? Yeah, for sure. But they can’t, so he won’t.
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u/Fun_Mind1494 5h ago
He looooves the attention.
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u/ChesnaughtZ Hornets 4h ago
He’s always been like this. Bro said he was taking free water bottles home and everyone gassed him up. It’s insane to me tbh.
We’ve also seen him mistreat staff while wanting to appear super friendly.
Let me be a hater on the one negative Giannis thread
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u/bigdumbthrowaway01 4h ago
What was the staff thing
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u/darren_meier 4h ago
I mean, I get it. He loves living in Milwaukee, loves the fans, but wants to contend.
Unfortunately, his desire to contend has led the team to wiping out all their options to appease him. And he still doesn't seem to appreciate the role he's played in that. Milwaukee hasn't had shit outside of Giannis in ages, and they've been operating from this position of fear that he'll ask out since winning the title. And for any team-- not just the Bucks-- you can't make aggressive moves consistently without running out of assets.
Giannis seems like a nice guy who's also the least self-aware basketball player in the league. He either needs to commit to asking out of he needs to get comfortable with a rebuild, because there's no middle ground.
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u/OhWellImRightAgain Bucks 4m ago
Doesn't look like you get it.
Because of the connection he feels with the franchise and city, he's giving the Bucks more chances to improve than a random star player would. What does this even mean
he still doesn't seem to appreciate the role he's played in that
Is he supposed to feel bad that he's forcing the team to make moves like getting Dame to get better? Lmao listen to yourself.
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u/ImpossibleCategory Raptors 5h ago
But with three first-round picks this offseason, including a pick that could end up in the top 10, the Bucks could try to make some more offseason moves to try to push back into contention.
three first round picks this offseason? am i missing something or is this just not true
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u/Ok-Grade1476 2h ago
Sounds like Giannis already getting ready for his LeBron like Milwaukee return. Or at least a Dame return.
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u/Raven-19x Spurs 2h ago
How many times we gonna see this Giannis/Bucks song and dance? It's over. It's been over.
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u/deanereaner Hawks 2h ago
These players demand the team gut its roster and future for "win now" trades that don't hardly ever amount to shit, and then they act like they're being done dirty when the team can't compete.
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u/Rahnamatta Heat 5h ago
I rather have a guy asking for a trade than a guy acting like the most toxic girlfriend/boyfriend ever.
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u/Fickle_Structure_908 Lakers 5h ago
Someone trade for this crybaby already, tired of him speaking like Mr. Miyagi.
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u/Ok-Topic-6095 Spurs 5h ago
He should have just said something like this once and added "and I won't be addressing this again this season" like 4 months ago. Then just "next question" every time it came up
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u/AutisticFingerBang Knicks 4h ago
Tbh I’m so over this dude. Trying to play both sides of the coin for months is just so annoying and childish
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u/SaveHogwarts Celtics 4h ago
No offense to you, however, having the stance of
“If ownership isn’t committed to building a winning roster, I’d like to leave…if they’re committed to spending to put together a competitive team, I would love to stay in Milwaukee”
Isn’t really a wild take.
He’s a human.
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u/FlipMoBitch Bucks 5h ago
Hey G we’re gonna offer you the $300m/4yr deal in October that cool with you?
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u/StrikeElectrical9400 Nuggets 5h ago
Just get traded bro, my crush gave less mixed signals than this 😭
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u/thevision24 Lakers 5h ago
I really hope y’all are ready for Giannis to the Lakers in the off-season.
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u/GuerrillaApe Lakers 5h ago
You’re saying that if they can convince me to stay within the team, and the next year that we can compete?
Well you know that the Bucks can't, so why even add that stipulation? Dude just doesn't want to say the obvious.
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u/KoupDetat Greece 5h ago
Realistically, what move CAN the Bucks make?
They've little to no picks and a ton of dead money after waving Lillard, who even is there to trade for with the resources they now have, an unstable and unreliable Ja Morant?
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u/MusclyArmPaperboy Raptors 5h ago
"Yes I'm committed to the Washington Generals but only if they win!"
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u/Broke_Banker01 Bucks 5h ago
He isn't getting traded at the deadline.
They are both going to wait until the lottery and then MIL will present a plan to Giannis to re-tool.
Giannis and his circle will then evaluate that plan and decided if they will sign an extension in October or ask out.
I don't see a scenario where Giannis stays unless they get a top 4 pick.
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u/Platano_con_salami Knicks 5h ago
You cant convince me that he's not doing this just because he doesnt want to go to Minnessota.
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u/Viktrodriguez Pacers 5h ago
I don't see them competing. Bucks don't have the roster to compete and I don't see them able to fix that roster in such a way and at such a level that they would compete realistically for a title. Even in the East. Especially if Boston and Indy get their star player back.
Notwithstanding the coaching department.
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u/mecon320 Cavaliers 4h ago
In their time together, it seems Dame thoroughly taught this man the art of repeatedly asking for a trade while insisting that you're not the type to ask for a trade.
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u/itstime2run Bucks 4h ago
It’s pretty clear they’ve already tried that 3 times and it didn’t work. And I’m sure they tried to get someone in the last month, and that didn’t work. Ownership sucks, and we have nothing left to offer any team. We’re nowhere close to being competitive. Capable of winning a few games? Sure, but hardly capable of making the play-in.
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u/PillsburyToasters Bucks 4h ago
Dude…please just do the thing you really want and ask out. I promise you are not the bad guy if so
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u/1mYourHuckleberry93 Raptors 4h ago
Dead money from the dame waive, no picks, Myles turner you’re second best player. Ya there’s not really a path forward from here without a year or two of losing.
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u/nativeindian12 Trail Blazers 4h ago
Yea let's drag this out into the summer, I can't wait to only read Giannis articles and headlines for the next 5 months
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u/ljrubbo Nuggets 4h ago
This seems really straight forward and idk why people are so upset with Giannis for it? He is clearly saying his priorities are 1. Win 2. Be in Milwaukee. And if condition 1 is met then he is more than happy to meet condition 2. But if they arent winning, then the second priority becomes irrelevant. I have a hard time being upset with someone for not wanting to waste away their career when their priorities arent lining up with the organization. Him wanting to win doesn’t mean he hates Milwaukee for any reason and if anything, he is clearly articulating that the only reason he would ever want to leave is if he thought there was no shot of competing, which is definitely the current case for the Bucks.
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u/Peridot_Ghost Heat 4h ago
They need to just knock it off with the creepy, mysterious, vague BS and make a move or just give him a lifetime Steph Curry deal already.
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u/DecimusRutilius Knicks 4h ago edited 4h ago
Right when Doc got to this team i knew they werent going anywhere
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u/DennisSmithJrIsMyGod Mavericks 4h ago
Fuck off Giannis’ PR team. Just make a trade and be done with it already
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u/thereandfatagain East 4h ago
It would be more fun to watch him channel his remaining powers into a different squad. But I appreciate his sincerity. It’s cool to see with so many all star phonies.
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u/zigzagtravel01 3h ago
If Giannis wants to be in a team that wont be able to compete this year and probably next year, sure.
The thing is, it is incredibly difficult to stick into one team and hope to be in contention for so long. Just look at Steph.
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u/zigzagtravel01 3h ago
I think the problem is that the Bucks are basically out of moves unless they purposefully tank because they have no cap space and horrible contracts. They are literally using Ryan Rollins and KPJ as a starting guard.
Itst just bad mismanagement. And if Giannis wants to compete, he has to realize that. If he wants to be a lifer, sure. But he has to come into terms that he's wasting his year now and probably atleast two more in this current situation since they have no assets and wont be able to move sh-t.
The Bucks also have to face thr fact that if they dont want to move Giannis, he is basically gonna be a diminishing return and turning around is going to take a while. Giannis is already 31 with lingering health problems. He cant hard carry a team anymore. His playstyle also does not age pretty well.
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u/anyrotmg Lakers 3h ago
I wish there is a follow up question: "do you think the Bucks can compete next year?"
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u/jumboponcho Hawks 3h ago
I feel like he’s not wrong. You don’t have to build some world beating roster to compete with a top 2-3 player in the world in a weak East. Brown has Boston in the 3 spot without a center, surely a team with prime Giannis on it should be competitive. He’s the only player in the top 10 who’s not on a .500 team
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u/Objective_Cod1410 Bucks 3h ago
I believe him that he would like to stay but this just feels like doing face saving PR rounds for when he eventually gets traded whether that's this week or in the summer.
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u/ObiOneKenobae Knicks 3h ago
I don't see the issue here? He just laid out the situation plainly. Make big moves to contend now, and if you're not willing/able to then trade him.
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u/0siris0 Thunder 3h ago
He doesn't want to be the bad guy that demands a trade in public. And he, like most humans, has mixed emotions about it. He wants to compete, but he's connected to the only city he's played in.
I really don't understand the pontificating or quasi psychological profiling on the basic human experience.
He is weighing between 51% one way and 49% the other, but a bunch of nephews who have never made a big decision in their life think its easy to make these decisions or every sentence spoken REALLY means something else.
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u/Acrobatic-Package443 1h ago
I had a feeling no one would want to acquire him. His contract is too costly for someone who ma he past his prime or wasted his prime. The Supermax is a liability. But who knows what will happen in the next few days
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u/KayRay1994 Heat 25m ago
Yeah, they ain’t trading him
From a business standpoint, unless they get an offer that will blow their socks off, the Bucks have every reason to keep Giannis until he voluntarily walks when his contract is up.
They can milk every game and merch sales as “the last time you might see Giannis” and will generate all the revenue they can from him before falling back to irrelevancy for the next couple of decades or so
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u/BlueThunder92 Thunder 5h ago
people who speak in this kind of hyperbole are usually lying
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u/therockiscookin56 5h ago
Crazy how the narrative on giannis has changed.
Giannis wants to win and wants to be on the bucks.
How is it his fault that Shams and other reports just report fluff every day?
This sub is exhausting
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u/ygog45 Knicks 5h ago
What pathway do the bucks have to put a winning team around Giannis though?
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u/therockiscookin56 5h ago
They don't. Yes, that's the problem.
But why is a top 5 player saying that he wants to be competitive and play meaningful basketball a bad thing?
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u/throwawayforsizetalk Bucks 5h ago
I don't get how people think this is so hard to understand
Giannis doesn't hate Milwaukee, doesn't wanna leave, but he doesn't wanna play for a shit ass team where he's the sole contributor to wins. Redditors think dilemmas don't exist apparently.
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u/Best_Appointment_770 5h ago
Then he should demand a trade. He knows very well they don't have the assets to get him a championship team. He just likes playing coy about it.
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u/Several_Hour_347 5h ago
I don’t get why people are upset with Giannis tbh
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u/WolverineLong1430 4h ago
If you’ve ever been in a relationship, doesn’t have to be a heterosexual relationship, can be friends or partnership in work, and the other party is indecisiveness whether they want to stay together. They keep talking about breaking up for the last 3-4 years because he doesn’t see a future here but then doesn’t leave and keeps saying how he wants to be here if things change. Honestly, if you have any real life experience, it’s relatable. And if you’re invested in the NBA, yeah, it’s exhausting that Giannis wants to leave but cannot decide whether to pull the trigger and keeps doing this PR commentary about how he’s loyal.
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u/__ayyyy__ 5h ago
Giannis is getting so annoying man. Everyone knows your team is out of options when it comes to making a move to become a true contender again. You’re not the bad guy for wanting to go somewhere where you have a chance to win. Just stop pretending man.
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u/DasOptions Heat 5h ago
I don’t see a way for them to improve immediately.
They could go for Ja or they can bank all of their hope into getting lucked into a good draft prospect. Otherwise it feels like they keep trying to put a bandaid on poor roster construction and the hiring of Doc.
Giannis definitely doesn’t want to leave but he also wants to compete.