Sam Amick

That remains the focus.

You know, last summer.

When Giannis and his camp did raise the prospect of going to New York, and you call it a trade request or a trade inquiry, whatever you want to call it, he expressed an interest in playing in New York.

But the timing of it was so late in the summer.

They had already signed Mikael Bridges to an extension that made that type of a deal even more difficult to do.

All of the different puzzle pieces didn't fit.

There was no way that was going to go anywhere, and it didn't.

But it did reveal...

you know, what he saw in New York.

But the other part of that was the Knicks really looked at their team and said, we think we're title contenders.

And so tracking that throughout this season has been interesting because, you know, there's an inverse relationship between, uh,

how the Knicks see themselves and then the prospects, you know, do they have a desire to go get Giannis?

So last night, you know, they take care of business against Toronto.

They get to the semifinals of the NBA Cup.

They're playing well right now.

So internally, I'm very curious to hear what is that Giannis conversation?

Do they still have as much belief in this current team as they did back in August and September?

Because that's going to dictate how hard they potentially push for Giannis.

On the Milwaukee side,

It's been messy in terms of the ESPN report indicating that the two sides were suddenly talking about possibly party ways again, some pushback on that reporting from both sides, some gray area about like, yes, everybody knows that you're reaching this fork in the road that we've been