Eric Nehm

And then obviously there was the report from Shamshirani at ESPN about, you know, conversations that are starting between the Bucs or continuing between the Bucs.

However you want to phrase what conversations exist between

between the milwaukee bucks and instead of kumbo um those things are happening and everyone's frustrated at the moment and and i think one of the things that we found out i reported at the athletic is that yeah everyone's frustrated uh yannis is frustrated he would like to win more uh he's always made it very clear that competing for championships is what he wants to do uh he wants to believe in the team and that's all great

Doc Rivers is not here for a rebuild.

That's not why the Milwaukee Bucks hired Doc Rivers.

He was hired to compete for championships and to compete at a high level.

John Horst has gotten contract extensions because of his ability to, year over year, keep the Bucks in the title conversation.

At 9 and 13, that is not occurring.

That's not what's happening.

So you do end up starting to have to think about, all right, how happy is Giannis?

How unhappy is Giannis?

How is he feeling about the franchise?

And these aren't new questions.

After 22 games, the Bucs weren't like, man...

I wonder how Giannis is feeling.

This is the first time we've ever thought about how Giannis Adetokounmpo might be feeling in this moment.

No, they think about it all the time.

That's what the franchise is all about.

But I think ultimately...

what this comes down to is how he honest feels about being here for the season.