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To get Giannis using Gobert and Randle, we would also have to add: pick 28, our 2033 1st unprotected or top 3 protected at best, a 2028 1st swap, Shannon Jr. That probably still isn't enough.

Think A.D trade to L.A. If i am the Bucks that is my demand. All the picks and all those high end top 5 drafted prospects or equivelant.

Mnwild1128 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 9:19 pm To get Giannis using Gobert and Randle, we would also have to add: pick 28, our 2033 1st unprotected or top 3 protected at best, a 2028 1st swap, Shannon Jr. That probably still isn't enough.

Think A.D trade to L.A. If i am the Bucks that is my demand. All the picks and all those high end top 5 drafted prospects or equivelant.

That trade can't be used as a measuring stick, it's a new cap environment

Let's not forget that Giannis has a say in this matter too! If Giannis and his agent don't like Team X and won't commit to an extension with them, it makes Team X less likely to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a trade offer or perhaps not even make an offer to begin with.

Bottom line - he has the ability to potentially lower the price-tag for his services by dictating which teams he's willing to play for (fingers crossed that Minnesota is one of them!). Obviously he'd still be costly to acquire, but it may not be the astronomical price some of us think.

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:27 pm Let's not forget that Giannis has a say in this matter too! If Giannis and his agent don't like Team X and won't commit to an extension with them, it makes Team X less likely to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a trade offer or perhaps not even make an offer to begin with.

Bottom line - he has the ability to potentially lower the price-tag for his services by dictating which teams he's willing to play for (fingers crossed that Minnesota is one of them!). Obviously he'd still be costly to acquire, but it may not be the astronomical price some of us think.

For someone who has done everything in his power to not be the a$$hole in this situation, it's asking a lot of him to decide to become one now. If he had that mindset he woulda been somewhere else by now. Instead this has become a drawn out soap opera because he doesn't wanna look like the bad guy.

Milwaukee should just take the best deal and let Giannis become someone else's problem.

WildWolf2813 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:35 pm

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:27 pm Let's not forget that Giannis has a say in this matter too! If Giannis and his agent don't like Team X and won't commit to an extension with them, it makes Team X less likely to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a trade offer or perhaps not even make an offer to begin with.

Bottom line - he has the ability to potentially lower the price-tag for his services by dictating which teams he's willing to play for (fingers crossed that Minnesota is one of them!). Obviously he'd still be costly to acquire, but it may not be the astronomical price some of us think.

For someone who has done everything in his power to not be the a$$hole in this situation, it's asking a lot of him to decide to become one now. If he had that mindset he woulda been somewhere else by now. Instead this has become a drawn out soap opera because he doesn't wanna look like the bad guy.

Milwaukee should just take the best deal and let Giannis become someone else's problem.

Getting the best deal is completely intertwined with the trade partner getting assurance that Giannis isn't coming on a rental

AussieWolf3 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:47 pm

WildWolf2813 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:35 pm

Q-is-here wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:27 pm Let's not forget that Giannis has a say in this matter too! If Giannis and his agent don't like Team X and won't commit to an extension with them, it makes Team X less likely to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a trade offer or perhaps not even make an offer to begin with.

Bottom line - he has the ability to potentially lower the price-tag for his services by dictating which teams he's willing to play for (fingers crossed that Minnesota is one of them!). Obviously he'd still be costly to acquire, but it may not be the astronomical price some of us think.

For someone who has done everything in his power to not be the a$$hole in this situation, it's asking a lot of him to decide to become one now. If he had that mindset he woulda been somewhere else by now. Instead this has become a drawn out soap opera because he doesn't wanna look like the bad guy.

Milwaukee should just take the best deal and let Giannis become someone else's problem.

Getting the best deal is completely intertwined with the trade partner getting assurance that Giannis isn't coming on a rental

we'd have to ask the same question though. Truth is, nobody knows what the hell he wants outside of having a flight that gets him to Greece faster.

"I have not heard that Boston is on Giannis's list. I have not heard that Giannis is prepared to sign the extension with Boston,"

"Just because I haven't heard doesn't mean it's not true. But until those two things are true, I don't think it's really something that's in the world of reality." - Brian Windhorst

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