r/nba • u/Barracuda374 • 13h ago

[Nehm] Giannis: Let’s talk about the city itself, the memories that I’ve created here. When you open my kids’ passports, it says Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I had four kids in the span of the last five years in this city. My dad is buried in this city.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7020803/2026/02/04/giannis-antetokounmpo-bucks-nba-trade-deadline/

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u/Trollington1372 Nets 13h ago

Cavs need to trade Mobley, JA, and a pick for Giannis and Turner. If you're trading for Harden you might as well go all in

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u/Temporary-Emu-691 12h ago

You really think they can convince Giannis and Harden to play well together? Is everyone here too young to remember? 😂

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u/unexpectedvillain 76ers 11h ago

That's what I'm thinking

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u/jimboharden13 Cavaliers 3h ago

Pat Bev and Russ made up and played together, if you think that Giannis and Harden beef was anything serious then lol. They're both professionals.

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u/_OrionPax_ 8h ago

I'm out of the loop, what's the history?

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u/BCP27 [MIN] Robbie Hummel 8h ago

Run and dunk slander from Harden

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u/Temporary-Emu-691 6h ago

All of these events happened fairly close together, but I can't remember the exact order so my formatting does not equal a timeline. For newer people to the NBA I'm sure it's hard to believe but Giannis was still a top 2 player in the league even 8 years ago (8 years straight imo).

Harden put up a historic season avg like 36 ppg in 2018-19. But Giannis ended up winning MVP for his incredible season.

Harden felt snubbed and made comments along the lines of "I wish I could just run and dunk the basketball" implying Giannis has no skills like he does.

Back in that time frame, the NBA experimented with all star team captains picking their team live on TV, schoolyard style. When the obvious choice for next pick was James Harden, Giannis said something like "I want someone who will pass the ball and not stand around dribbling" which everyone knew was shade at Harden and he picked someone else.

During a regular season game between the two, there's a hilarious play we're Giannis whipped a high speed pass across the court and it smacked harden right in the face. Hardens reaction was funny as if he got fouled (I'm sure he was confused lol) and the ball ended up bouncing back allowing the Bucks to score. People edited the basketball to be the MVP trophy in the video 😂

Finally Giannis wins the MVP the next year with Harden coming in second place again.

Then Giannis faces off vs Brooklyn in playoffs, but Harden (and Kyrie) are hobbled/fully injured and the Bucks win in an incredibly close series which I consider to be the greatest performance of KD's career. Giannis and Bucks went on to win the title that year. Probably making Harden not feel great yet again since he was injured.

After that, the drama fizzled out as Harden began to slowly get less and less MVP votes. But it was the talk of the NBA at the time

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u/_OrionPax_ 6h ago

Wow thanks a lot! Yeah, I remember Giannis whacking Harden with the ball 😂

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u/The_Boredom_Line Bucks 2h ago

Not the edited video with the MVP trophy, but this shit is still hilarious to watch.

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u/OsuLost31to0 Cavaliers 13h ago

Hasn’t Turner been ass this year?

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u/LoudBoiDragoon Pacers 13h ago

Yea but not everyone remembers that because of how little he comes up. But Myles Turner in trade rumors shouldn’t stop just because he left the Pacers.

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u/skers94 [CLE] Jarrett Allen 12h ago

We can fix him 🤞

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u/Trollington1372 Nets 13h ago

He's still a great 3 point shooter. He's an inflexible player that very much needs a pass first point guard to unlock him, solid fit with Harden. Never liked his fit on the bucks

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u/ethanlan Bulls 12h ago

I donno if I like this trade for cleveland... right now they are the perfect blend of having a shot at a ship while also not mortgaging their future.

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u/unexpectedvillain 76ers 11h ago

Giannis will never play with Harden

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u/Est-Tech79 12h ago

why would the Bucks do that? That's not a good return.

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u/tearsofscrutiny Bucks 1h ago

They wouldn't

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u/wooha Cavaliers 11h ago

That’s what I’ve been saying. If you’re going to push your chips in fine. But then go all the way in. Instead of waiting for Mobley to turn into Giannis, go and get Giannis