ESPN NBA analyst Brian Windhorst does assume there’s a pathway to the Warriors buying Giannis Antetokounmpo, but when it comes to 1 factor, they aren’t going to win out.
“Sure, there’s a bundle that the Warriors may use,” Windhorst stated on ESPN’s Get Up. “They’ve some future draft picks. They’ve attention-grabbing younger gamers. Like final yr, Brandon Podziemski was off limits. Who is aware of if that’s going to be the case this yr? However they will’t win a bidding conflict.
“First off, I simply need to say Giannis has not let or not it’s identified he actually desires out of Milwaukee, so I don’t assume we should always assume that. If we do attain that time the place Giannis was going to go searching, he could have company on this. He has two years left on his contract. The Bucks don’t must take heed to him. But when he had been to come back to Milwaukee and say, I need to play with Steph [Curry], there may very well be a deal labored out. The identical would apply, for my part, to the [New York] Knicks or [Los Angeles Lakers], if he says I need to be a Knicks, ship me to New York or I need to be a Laker. These are huge ifs. These trades can get labored out. But when it’s simply an open market, none of these three groups, for my part, may win a bidding conflict with the Bucks.”
The Warriors have been linked to Antetokounmpo in a number of offseasons previously, however nothing concrete has ever occurred.
Perhaps with Steph’s window closing, they’ll take a leaf out of the Lakers e book and try to signal Giannis.
ESPN’s Bobby Marks famous that the Warriors have 4 tradeable future first-round draft picks in 2026, 2028, 2030 (if picks 1 via 20) and 2032, and Golden State can provide first-round choose swaps in any of the following seven years.
For the reason that Bucks and the Warriors seasons have each come to and finish, followers are pulling all kinds of theories and knowledge out.
Some followers famous that Giannis was the one non-Warriors participant at Steph Curry’s All-Star after occasion.
what they are saying, those that occasion collectively play on the identical NBA workforce collectively.
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