Howard Beck

But Kareem spent six seasons with the Bucs.

He won one championship, two finals appearances.

Giannis won championship, only one finals appearance.

And Kareem did have three of his MVPs in that span.

Giannis, two.

But Giannis has already been there for 13 seasons.

Giannis is the longest tenured all-time great to play for that franchise.

And it had been a very long time, half century, since they'd won a championship until Giannis brought them back to that.

And I think what's happening now is as we all start getting into the weeds of, you know, Giannis' trade slash non-trade demand, it's kind of coloring our views of him right now because he's kind of annoying a lot of people.

He's pissing people off.

but I think we need to take a step back and recall what he has done and where he has come from.

Kareem got there almost as a fully formed star.

Giannis got there as like this skinny teenager with no promise of anything.

And he's delivered way beyond what anybody could have expected.

He embraced Milwaukee and he, for all of what's happening now in what is eventually going to be a divorce sometime this off season, almost certainly, uh,

He gave them a lot of really great years of really great basketball and put a small market, cold weather city back on the NBA map.

There's no small thing.

I didn't even have to consider Oscar within this because Oscar's going to be the notch below Kareem, isn't he?

This is basically a what did you mean to that team during your time with that franchise.

Yeah, but I just said the greatest buck.