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Chapter 1: What led to the Milwaukee Bucks trading Giannis Antetokounmpo?
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Chapter 2: What are the details of the trade between the Bucks and the Heat?
And what does that mean in the Eastern Conference with all these other good teams? Yeah, we've gone through the starting lineup. Their bench is now Pelly Larson or Powell, whoever they put in the starting lineup. That other person goes to the bench, along with Jovic, who the Bucs were happy to not get in this deal, I assume. Drew Smith and Bobby Portis. Drew Smith's going to play defense.
Bobby's going to yell at people. Thanasis will join him to also yell at people, too. Yeah. But it is a thin team. It is a shallow team. That is totally true. They're 18 million under the first apron right now. So they can go work some numbers. Tim Hardaway is a decent one. The other guys who are out there like a Colin Sexton, maybe that type of thing.
I mean, this team is going to be able to shoot. I think that's all they're doing right now is looking at shooters. And there's capable shooters out there. Giannis will be eligible starting January 6th to sign an extension for four years and $275 million if he opts out, or he'll have the three-year $214 million if he opts in. So, I mean, it's pretty similar.
I think a lot of people actually think he might opt in. I think he makes $1 million more in that scenario. Hey, he doesn't have to pay taxes there in Florida either, state taxes. Anything else from Miami's sort of side here before we start unpacking Milwaukee? And obviously we'll get to Jalen Brown in the Celtics. Yeah. Bobby Portis is on the Miami Heat. Yeah. Heat Bobby.
That's what I'm going to call him. It's going to be interesting to see him in heat culture. They have like weight requirements. We'll see how that goes. Yeah. I mean, he also sort of feels like he was destined to at some point play for the Miami Heat just with the crazy eyes and the passion that he can bring. So yeah, he's there and Milwaukee gets off of, I guess, that contract.
Bucs fans were very happy that Bobby Portis was in this trade. Yeah, it was either going to be Bobby or Kuzma, it felt like, being attached to Giannis in this hypothetical. Maybe that was a part of what happened here over these last couple weeks when the Celtics maybe got more involved of sweetening the pot or having to sweeten the pot from Milwaukee's side that Miami had to do, maybe.
But the Heat need guys.
They traded a lot of guys.
Yeah, and he's a capable guy. When it comes to playoff time, he performs. He's 31. So we're all looking at these guys' ages. Giannis is 31 too. He'll be 32 at the end of the season. He's injured that same calf twice and also injured the other calf once.
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Chapter 3: How does Giannis's departure affect the Bucks' future?
This is good enough for now. But if they would have done it prior to signing Miles Turner, Prior to waving and stretching Damian Lillard last year. They would have gotten more, for sure. So this is fine, what they got. I think the first round picks are the big thing here because Giannis will be 36 and 38 for those picks that are way, way down the line.
Those ones could be really nice for Milwaukee. But look, it took 50 years for them to replace Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It could be another 50 years for them to replace Giannis Antetokounmpo. This trade right now does not include any additional teams.
It's a one-to-one move here, according to Shams, but both the Heat and the Bucs will execute this deal technically on July 6th, which leaves this framework open for... to the possibilities, the opportunities for other teams to get involved and for this to expand. Basically the Kevin Durant of it all.
We saw this last season, right, where it sort of looked like more of a basic trade and then it just kept expanding and expanding. What did it get up to? Seven teams? Seven teams, yeah. In the end in the KD trade. So I bring that up because maybe there is the Tyler Hero rerouted to the Pistons or to another team. That could happen, but right now it's just Miami and Milwaukee.
But the choice here, and let's break it down, is like... fundamentally just picking between the rebuild and going with the picks and the young prospects in Milwaukee or being more competitive if you took the Jalen Brown sort of deal and you had an all-NBA player. Seems like you think this is the better path for Milwaukee. 100%. Okay. I think, yeah, you tear it down to build it back up.
I don't see... A 500 team currently as the way to go. And that's what I would see them as with a Jalen Brown led team. And even compared to other packages, like maybe you think that, oh, the Knicks last year would trade cat to the to the Milwaukee Bucks. Maybe, and whatever picks they had, but this is good. I think this is solid in terms of three first-round picks.
I don't know what other teams would be willing to offer in comparison to this. So they did well. They had to tear it down, and I do think they'd move Tyler Hero immediately to get something else.
I don't think that's so smart.
I think this will expand. I think Hero... He could be fine on the Bucs, but why? Because they need to start getting draft assets back. They started it with this.
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Chapter 4: Are the Miami Heat now legitimate title contenders with Giannis?
They still don't control their own pick for a long, long time. So getting picks in, even if they're going to be late in the first round, which I assume a Detroit pick would be, would be the smarter move. So I'm with Tass. I do agree that choosing the picks... was better than choosing Jalen Brown here. Number 13, unprotected in 31 and 33 when Giannis is aging.
Those are the best picks that were out there. But... The Bucs are the team that finally took this package. The Heat have been peddling this package to everyone. It wasn't good enough for Kevin Durant. It wasn't good enough for Damian Lillard. It wasn't good enough for Bradley Beal. But it's good enough for Giannis? I don't think so.
But that's what happens when you wait until the last possible minute. According to the athletics sources, by the way, the Bucs were very intrigued with the idea of making Jalen Brown their new franchise centerpiece here. But they had serious concerns about whether Jalen Brown would want to be in Milwaukee again. Like, yeah, maybe he wants his own team, but would he want to be there?
And I think they were fearful of like, oh boy, are we just going to have to go through this all over again? Like we trade for him and then he's like, I don't really want to be here. And you got to do that song and dance again. So that's what the athletics reporters are saying.
But yeah, the Bucks acquire not only the draft picks, but they're, you know, again, we got to wait to see what they do with Tyler Hero. But these guys are all in their 20s, right? These young guys coming back. Milwaukee's going to pray that one or two of them pop off here. Hero, he did grow up outside of Milwaukee. He is a scorer. Like, the guy's a bucket.
Hawk has finished second for sixth man of the year ballot last season. where was my pick to win six man of the year heading into the season? He averaged 11 and nine. Now this guy was in and out of Eric's bolsters rotation. I have a lot of faith in him still. I'm sort of excited to see what he can do there.
I know he's alongside Turner and they're probably trying to figure out what they can do with that deal. Good luck with that. And then Yaka Jonas, the 20th pick in last year's draft. So it's sort of like another draft pick reports say that the heat attempted to include Davion Mitchell instead, but the bucks were pretty insistent on Yaka Jonas being involved in this. So they get him in the end.
Well, I'm sure that the Heat said, hey, take Nikola Jovic, please. Well, of course, but they said no thanks. Nobody wants him. Yeah, yeah. So the real questions are, can Khalil Ware develop into something more? Who can play? And Kasparovchuk has shown us look good when he did play last year. He's 20 years old. Saw him in the summer league. He looked like he could ball.
So it's really, hopefully, one of those guys really pans out. I think that's the key. Hamahakis is there to play a role and is a decent two-way player, but it doesn't have a high ceiling as these guys do, those other two guys do. So it's a hope and a prey, and one of those draft picks also pans out pretty well.
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Chapter 5: What implications does this trade have for the Boston Celtics?
And they have two picks tonight, right now at least, number 10 and then number 13. Although whoever goes at number 13 is going to be wearing a Miami Heat hat tonight. Yeah, because it's not technically done.
So that'll be great.
It'll be good for the photos. And they do have a swapper in there later in 2030. They only got one swap. The Heat held on to a swap or two, I guess. They had another one they could have. So they're like, hey, come on, we can't go that far. The one second round pick is very funny. Okay, good. Glad that one's included.
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Chapter 6: How do the Timberwolves' recent trades impact their roster?
It sounded maybe like a B. To me, this is sort of like how I would grade Milwaukee's here too. I don't think it's the best they could have done because they got the timing wrong, like a lot of teams do with a superstar when it comes to trading them. But it's not bad either. I haven't shit on this trade return as much as some people have.
I don't think it's garbage, especially with all the draft capital they ended up getting out of them and extracting out of them. So I think it's a B as well is my point if I'm grading this. What's the package that was better 12 months ago? Well, we don't know, but the Wolves were involved. Well, we talked about it a lot. The Warriors were involved. Yeah.
The Magic, I guess, at some point got in the mix. I mean, you have to imagine there was a lot of teams kicking the tires on what it would take. Tires were kicked. That's the thing, though. But, you know, were the Bucs foolish? Like, were they sort of like blinders on? Like, we can make this work still. That's what they appeared to think when they, of course, they did the low move. Okay.
And then, unfortunately, he tears his Achilles. But then they do the Miles Turner thing. I mean, that to me says they still believed that they could have a winning team or convince Giannis to stay here for the rest of his career. Right? Yeah. Okay. Well, that was the screw up because it felt like the writing was on the wall as soon as Damian Lillard tore his Achilles. It's like, okay, everybody.
We tried.
You know, we tried. Yeah. And we tried. We won a title. Everybody. All right. Amazing. And now he wants to win a second one. It's probably not going to be here. And it sure as hell isn't going to be because of Miles Turner. Sure. Yeah. So you think this is the best? Well, probably not the best. But when we're talking about the best player 13 months ago, it could have been Cat, it sure felt like.
But in terms of picks, is there another first-rounder thrown in there? Maybe. But that's all we're talking about, I think. We're not talking about a superstar player. I don't think it's โ I don't know. Other than Cat, the Hawks and Jalen Johnson didn't seem to be โ The one either. So, all in all. That's actually kind of interesting. That's probably a better package. Probably.
Probably the Hawks would have done that trade last year. Yeah, that's the question. Send back all of the Bucs stuff and Jalen Johnson. That's a better deal than what they got. But if they nail these draft picks, it turns out okay. Personally, I don't think Hero, Ware, Jaquez, or Yacachonis is going to do anything for the Bucs. But these guys they get in like 2031, 2033. That might be good.
It's impossible to know if the act has shown us we haven't seen him play a lot He looks capable It was a late draft pick. Yeah, you know, yeah. Yeah, he's he could be good. Mm-hmm But that's where we are and Kahlil where? Unfortunately, he was in the doghouse for Eric's bolster. Hey, you're being benched. Okay. Hey, you're coming in the consistency not there with a guy who looks super talented
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Chapter 7: What are the potential outcomes for Tyler Hero in Milwaukee?
That's okay. That's his choice. There's going to be so much around this, as there already is right now, what, less than 12 hours after the actual Giannis trade. Yeah, but do you think Jalen Brown is like a Jimmy Butler type character where he's going to make it awkward for the Celtics? Because he's been there his whole career.
The guy that drafted him and coached him is like in the front office now. And like it sounds cool to be the number one guy for the New Orleans Pelicans until you're the number one guy for the New Orleans Pelicans. Like what's better for Jalen Brown to try and win in Boston where he's the number 1.5 and when Tatum goes out, you're the number one and you still get all these plaudits and accolades.
He was the finals MVP with a healthy Jalen or a healthy Jason Tatum. Or do you want to go average 30 a game and finish 11th in the Western Conference for the Pelicans? Because that's the trade they're talking about is like Trey Murphy and whoever else coming to Boston for Jalen Brown, whether it be Herb Jones, maybe Zion. I don't know. It sounds interesting until you're stuck in New Orleans.
Yeah, that's why I feel like he hasn't burned the bridge quite yet. There are hot, hot rumors about. He hasn't burned the bridge. They burned the bridge. They're the ones that tried trading him. Yeah, but they also don't have to trade him. No, no, but he can make it awkward as we've just gone through. But do you think he would? Yeah, I guess he could.
I don't even think he would actively have to do it. It's because it's here now. Now this is the thing. So now every interview... is asked about this. Everything is dissected. Every little shoulder bump. Every little, you didn't pass the ball to me. Everything gets blown out of proportion now. I think. Because we've seen this happen so many times before.
So, I just think now they're going to be at this exact same playbook. And I think they'll move them. I'm not saying it might even be a bad thing. Because I think, instead of the Giannis, they're going to get... Maybe draft picks. More players, which I think they could use. They need bigs and stuff like that. So this could work out for everybody.
Jalen gets his own team, so to speak, and gets to be the guy, whoever that is. And the Celtics sort of retool here in what you guys just went through is going to be still a very competitive Eastern Conference.
It sure is.
Very. With the Pacers back in the mix. The Cavs are still decent. The Knicks are obviously the defending champs. Go through a bunch of other teams here. So... I think he will be moved because we're on the clock. It just pivots from Giannis to like Jalen Brown. There's always in this league is like the next sort of like superstar to be traded. And maybe I'm to blame.
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Chapter 8: What can we expect from the upcoming NBA season after these trades?
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