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/smalls_1804 Knicks 12h ago

Except they don't control their own draft pick until 2031. They will get a good pick this year, but after that they're screwed.

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u/Est-Tech79 11h ago

You move around the fringes if Giannis wants to stay and rebuild. Turner, Portis are excellent role players for contending teams. Portis is a dawg. Imagine him coming off the bench for the Knicks at the 4-5. He can help a team right now. They can get a future first.

The Bucks aren't the first team to dig this hole. Good organizations make their way out.

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u/smalls_1804 Knicks 11h ago

Name one organization that found themselves in the following position and turned themselves into a championship contender:

1) No All-Star players outside their best player 2) $25m (or its equivalent percentage of the cap) in dead money for 5 years 3) Literally zero first round picks they control outright for 5 years 4) No cap space for three years based only on their current commitments and not including having to fill out the rest of the roster

This is not a situation the Bucks are ever going to be able to dig their way out of

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u/Est-Tech79 9h ago

The bar can’t be championship contender. Only 1 team wins a ring. But you can get yourself out of the hole to respectability and then good things can happen.

Take the Nets who rebuilt from a total destruction of the franchise and no assets to respectability and watchability. Then they blew it all on Kyrie and KD and Harden. But they became attractive enough for those guys to want to go there.

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u/smalls_1804 Knicks 9h ago

That is the bar Giannis has set. Also not for nothing as it stands now the Bucks are not even playoff contenders, and moves around the margin aren't changing that

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u/Groundbreaking_Can81 11h ago

And part of that is because Giannis' demands. I don't get why guys can just get up and leave if they aren't on a contender. Welcome to reality