Skeets

You flash back to his 2024 calf injury.

Happened right before the playoffs started.

Looks pretty much the exact same as what happened with this calf strain.

It was April 9th, 2024 when Giannis went out back then.

Didn't play the rest of the season.

23 days until the Bucs were eliminated.

At the time, he said he was not close to returning.

He was running at 30% to 40% and needed two to three more weeks to recover.

So, I mean, optimistically, if he's back in two weeks, maybe the Bucs can survive and impress Giannis enough that...

He doesn't want to leave, and he can put some pressure on them to use those picks way in the future to try anything because I think the Bucs probably would try anything, to keep you honest, if he says he's going to stay at least for the next couple of months.

But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me for them to trade those picks because even if he makes it through the rest of the season, the Bucs haven't won a playoff series in three years.

I mean, they've won one playoff series in the past three years.

So why would you trade stuff seven years from the future when Giannis will probably –

Not be there.

We'll see what happens over the summer.

I personally think it'll be more of a trade deadline thing, and it wouldn't surprise me if we don't see Giannis wearing 34 for the Bucs again.

Be crazy.

The other note here is if Giannis misses four weeks, he would be on the verge of not being eligible for any of the end-of-the-season awards because he'd be getting real damn close to that.

This guy's been first-team All-NBA and top five in MVP voting for seven consecutive seasons.

So that streak is in jeopardy as well because you've got to hit the 65-game threshold now.