JayMKE wrote:giannis and 1 wrote:JayMKE wrote:If Giannis signs the contract then I wouldn't trade him no matter what he requested, he could retire back to Greece for all I care then. A contract is a contract, there is no "in this day and age" bull.
Disagree. You are allowed to request a trade in the NBA. Not sure if there are any rules saying that a team has to trade a player if he requests a trade, but if we didn't... how does that look to other players? Players will not want to play for the Bucks.
Players can request anything they want but there is no obligation to heed it, if Giannis wants out then he should not sign the supermax not try to scam us so he could get paid even more on the Lakers. You think Giannis will sit or or make a public show of it? I’ll call that bluff but if he wants to be a villain then he’ll earn that reputation publicly, Id advocate 100% hardball in that situation. Drown his Disney in boo’s
The truth is there isn’t single god damn professional athlete in the world that actually wants to live or even play in Milwaukee if it were their choice so we have to make a stand or else what is the point of having a team? You play to win the game, you don’t just play to play it! Sign a contract or don’t but you’re honoring that contract if you do, end of story.
If NBA guys really want to freely move around on their own whim then maybe NBA contracts should be non-guaranteed.
This is such bull in so many ways.
If Giannis didn't sign the supermax and kicked, we would be left with nothing. If he signs it and asks out a couple years later, we get the biggest trade package in sports history. I read your other posts and you seem to think we are doomed as a franchise if we have no Giannis - that is such a joke of a mentality. Look at OKC and how many picks they have. We would get a boatload of picks and young players. There is no reality where we would get some mediocre **** in exchange for him. There is also no reality where losing Giannis for absolutely nothing is preferable to trading him for assets
And if Giannis signs the supermax with us but wants out later on, it would be because we have failed in the playoffs and he doesn't think we can win a championship anytime soon. Elite players don't remain elite forever, they have a timeframe where they are at there best and have the best chance of winning. How can you fault him for asking out in that situation?
The last part of your post can apply to every team in the NBA other than the handful of big market teams. If Giannis signs the supermax, that shows that he wants to spend at least a couple more years in Milwaukee. Milwaukee might not have the weather and endorsements that other teams have but if the org can build a team that is a contender year in and year out, players will want to play here. It has already started to happen...
If he wants out, it is what it is. He gave us a lot of good years, and we at least get something back for him. That something will probably not be as good as Giannis, but at least we aren't left completely bare. I will still be cheering for us to hit on those draft picks to find another star and build a contender again.
But what you can't do is create a toxic situation where you don't trade the best player your franchise has had when he requests a trade. *And I am assuming that this trade request would happen at least 2 years into his extension*. That would make the Bucks org go from a place where not a lot of players want to play... into a place where no one wants to play.
