Eric Nehm

But

there is truth like part of the reason why a used car salesman can sell you something is there is probably a level of truth somewhere in their statement and there is some truth to that that this team has not been lv this team does think it's better than this and this team knows that it should be better than this so i think all of those things kind of combine to obviously

yannis will always be the most interesting story in the world yannis will always be the center of every trade rumor conversation uh fake trade ideas story all of that uh that is not going anywhere uh you mentioned how long we've been doing this together for before um i remember telling someone the other day um

This is interesting for me because this is year eight for me at The Athletic.

At the end of year one at The Athletic, the Milwaukee Bucks lost four straight games in the Eastern Conference Finals.

After game six in Toronto, a report came out that Giannis Adekumbo was thinking about his future, and he was trying to figure out whether or not he wanted to commit long-term to the Milwaukee Bucks.

And that was year one.

And you know what?

I've done it in year two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

And now I'm doing it in year eight.

And that's not to say he will for sure stay.

That's not what I'm trying to say.

I'm just saying that he's always a part of this.

This is always the conversation.

When your standard is I want to compete for championships every year,

you're going to put your team in a place where there's a certain level of pressure and there's a certain understanding that you're going to do everything in your power as an organization to put him in that position.

And as of now, oh, my gosh, it's December 4th.

Sorry, I just realized it's 1230 in the morning.

Hey, guys.

It's a morning show.