re: Dame feared to have torn his Achilles.

The real question is:

IF you offered PHX a trade for us to pair Booker w/ Zion, how many 1sts do you give them in a package that includes Herb/ CJ/ Jose?

the haul they would get from Giannis would be worth it. Biggest trade ever probably

Charlotte, Lakers, Jazz, Wizards, Suns?

Several of those teams are severely depleted for rotation players.

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Charlotte, Lakers, Jazz, Wizards, Suns?

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Some of those are equally bad, but most are probably just as good with more upside.

It's amazing how fast the Pels went from being a good team with a very deep roster to having a pretty shitty bench.

Athletic article is also suggestin trading Giannis. From the article:

"They have no good young players and no draft assets, and their annual wrestling match with the collective bargaining agreement’s second-apron threshold results in more losses at the margins every year. The Bucks’ two best players after Antetokounmpo are free agents (Brook Lopez and Bobby Portis). Of the two highest-paid players under contract after Antetokounmpo, one may miss all of next season and be 36 when he returns for 2026-27 (Lillard) and the other isn’t any good (Kyle Kuzma)."

Also more relevant, comparing situation to Nets trading back for their draft picks so they can actually tank:

"Milwaukee could pursue a similar plan only by trading with the New Orleans Pelicans to get back their 2026 pick swap and the top-four portion of its 2027 unprotected first. However, the “fifth through 30th” piece has already been sent to Atlanta. Still, such a move would give the Bucks two bites at the apple on high picks while they waited for their cap situation to clean out. But again, there is only one team they can execute this trade with, and players aren’t exactly jonesing to get to New Orleans. It would almost have to be a sidebar to a primary trade that sent Giannis someplace else; imagine a deal, for instance, where the Bucks get draft picks for Giannis and trade some of them to the Pelicans to regain access to their own picks."

The rest gets into potential Giannis trades but not how that could fit into a Pels trade.

Only consolation for them is that we are in shite shape ourselves.

Unless we have a major turnaround, they will still have a lottery pick. Just probably not as great of one as they should get.

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I don't think so in the way it's being worded there.

We are sending whichever pick is worst, our own or the Bucks, to Atlanta.


So we own whichever pick is best between our own 2027 1st and the Bucks, and we should be able to send that back to Milwaukee in a trade if we wanted to.

We can essentially give them back their 2026 1st, and then give them whichever pick is better, their own or ours for 2027.
I think we would be stupid to not try to get involved with a trade of Giannis, and we should be playing extreme hardball with them b/c their 2026 1st is going to be extremely valuable if they are trading Giannis.

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so that Dyson trade is looking worse by the minute.

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It was always an overpay, which was the norm with our idiot GM we no longer have.

I’ve been playing around with the trade machine making up a way Houston could pair Giannis and Durant, because I think this is likely to happen, while getting everyone else what they would want. Best I could come up with where I think all teams involved probably say yes (this would depend on Giannis, KD and Ja asking for trades):

Rockets: Durant, Giannis

Suns: Sengun, Reed Sheppard, their picks from Houston

Bucks: Jalen Green, CJ, their picks from Pels, picks from Houston

Pels: JSJ, Ja Morant

Grizzlies: Herb Jones, Dillon Brooks, 2 picks from Houston

I’m not sure Durant is worth all of that. If I’m the Rox, I wouldn’t pay that much for him.