Each NBA staff retains a “superstars who may turn into accessible” listing on a whiteboard someplace within the workplace. That listing is speculative — Luka Doncic wasn’t on it and now he’s a Laker — however there tends to be a way across the league of which All-NBA gamers could be sad and which groups are about to pivot and commerce their current stars.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is on the high of that listing. Antetokounmpo is extremely aggressive and whereas the Bucks gained a hoop, they’ve shortly gotten previous and the Greek Freek’s personal feedback have fueled some hypothesis.
Nonetheless, his feedback to COSMOTE TV (the NBA broadcast associate in Greece) throughout NBA All-Star weekend shot down the concept he’d ask out. Here’s what he stated when requested a few attainable commerce to an up-and-coming staff like Detroit, as translated by eurohoops.internet (hat tip Bleacher Report).
“Not less than Luka went from Dallas to LA, why you might be sending me to Detroit”, Giannis stated with a smile after a comical response that included an extended “noooooo” and on a extra critical observe he added: “NBA is enterprise if I obtained traded I’d inform my household and would do my job”.
Requested if he would textual content his GM asking for a commerce, Giannis as soon as extra talked about staying with the Bucks: “I do not suppose that I’d ever textual content (and ask for a commerce), I’m not this sort of man, they must kick me out”.
There are two issues of observe right here. First, the Bucks usually are not going to commerce Antetokounmpo until he asks for one. He’s price an excessive amount of to the franchise, each on the court docket and by way of franchise worth. Antetokounmpo packs the Fiserv Discussion board, he’s why individuals pay for the costly seats in that constructing and why sponsors name eager to be related to the Bucks. He brings in way more worth to the franchise than they’ll pay him on a max wage (as excessive as these are getting).
Second, I imagine Antetokounmpo in that he does not see himself asking for a commerce, that he and his household love Milwaukee, and that he would like to play his complete profession for one staff. Nonetheless, the listing of gamers who’ve stated and believed the identical factor solely to vary their minds is longer than the listing of complaints concerning the All-Star Sport. For much longer.
Keep in mind, earlier than the season, when requested about the potential for getting traded, Antetokounmpo turned to a Bucks staffer and stated, “If we do not win this yr, would you get fired?” Then he added, “Do you might have it behind your thoughts, like, ‘[What] if this yr does not go nicely?’ Yeah, if we do not win a championship, I’d get traded. Yeah, that is the job we stay. That is the world we’re dwelling in. It is all people.”
It’s all people, Doncic is proof of that. Nonetheless, Bucks followers ought to take consolation in the concept, finally, Antetokounmpo says he does not need to depart and won’t ask for a commerce. That is pretty much as good because it will get in as we speak’s NBA.
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