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Bucks trade: Giannis Antetokounmpo, AJ Green
Bucks receive: Bennedict Mathurin, Jarace Walker, Toumani Camara, Kris Murray, Jerami Grant, 2025 IND 1st (23rd), 2025 Blazers 1st (11th), 2028 IND 1st, 2030 IND 1st

Pacers trade: Pascal Siakam, Bennedict Mathurin, Jarace Walker, 2025 1st (23rd), 2028 1st, 2030 1st
Pacers receive: Giannis Antetokounmpo, AJ Green

Blazers trade: Jerami Grant, Toumani Camara, Kris Murray, 2025 1st (11th)
Blazers receive: Pascal Siakam


Why for Pacers: Get Giannis
Why for Blazers: major upgrade to Siakam. They want to compete.
Why for Bucks: Solid collection of 4 young players and four 1sts for Giannis.

Interesting deal for sure.

I think we need to trade Nembhard as well.

looking real hard for a centerpiece in that package but dont see one

Pass for POR.

Adding Grant to those positive assets only dilutes value. POR needs a #1 guy, not Siakam.

A lot of B level assets here for the Bucks and they're taking on a bad contract in Jemari Grant. I think the Bucks would prefer quality over Quantity and even from quantity standpoint, the Thunder and Rockets can offer more.

I had to try!

Disgustingly bad for the Bucks, not close at all. Nothing of interest, nothing that moves the needle, wouldn’t trade Giannis to Indy out of principle too

JayMKE wrote:Disgustingly bad for the Bucks, not close at all. Nothing of interest, nothing that moves the needle, wouldn’t trade Giannis to Indy out of principle too

Yeah it is difficult to trade Giannis to a division rival who have packed their bags the past 2 seasons.

I'd say this is an insultingly bad return for a Giannis trade but I've certainly seen worse in recent days. Including Portland just to bail Indiana out here by providing the only valuable draft asset (and only a late lottery pick at that) AND having the Bucks take on Jerami Grant's albatross is some real wishful thinking. This is just a hodgepodge of aggressively mediocre prospects/mid-late firsts and it should be obvious by everything laid out here that Indy doesn't have anywhere near the assets to make a competitive Giannis pitch. Don't see any sort of workable deal unless they randomly decide to include Haliburton (they won't).

If Bucks value the Blazers 11 and Camara this much, while also willing to take on Grant, Blazers just throw in Sharpe, some of the Bucks futures back and their own futures to beat Pacers offer and take Giannis for themselves.