OT: The Giannis trade rumors will "probably" start in earnest now

[dougthonus]

Giannis isn't coming here.

1: We don't have the assets to make the best offer

2: We have no hope of being better than Milwaukee is today after whatever our most reasonable Giannis offer is (ie, the reason Giannis will consider leaving Milwaukee will be equally true here)

We lose on both sides of the equation that you need to win on.

Unless Giannis demands a trade to the Bulls.

Sure, and #2 covered why he's not going to demand a trade here.

[MalagaBulls]

I thought I was the biggest Buz guy on the board, but drawing the line at Buz for Giannis is crazy talk. And I don't even like Giannis.

You're right, F that. Do what it takes to get Giannis including Buzelis. This is exactly the type of all in move that AK will try.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

Nope I'm serious here. But it will never happen.

[Am2626]

Giannis isn't coming here.

1: We don't have the assets to make the best offer

2: We have no hope of being better than Milwaukee is today after whatever our most reasonable Giannis offer is (ie, the reason Giannis will consider leaving Milwaukee will be equally true here)

We lose on both sides of the equation that you need to win on.

Unless Giannis demands a trade to the Bulls.

Yeah, I think the only realistic scenario in which the Bulls are in the mix is one where Giannis basically gets it out there that Chicago is the only team he'd be willing to extend with. Even then, it's possible some team thinks to themselves that they have 2 years to try to win titles and convince him to stay, so they may offer more than the Bulls can, anyway.

I know there have been rumblings over the years about how Giannis likes Chicago (and I've even seen recent reports that he has some real estate investments here near the UC, FWIW), but he'd have to feel really strongly about wanting to be here one other teams that would have a better winning situation for this to be something he'd do, you'd think.

Being that Chicago is very close to his current home maybe he doesn’t want to uproot his family. That and the history of the Bulls along with Chicago being a big market would be the drivers. Roster wise there wouldn’t be much to work with though so basketball wise it probably wouldn’t make sense for him.

[MrSparkle]

Latest report of Spurs planning to draft Harper and running 3 combo guards sounds right to me. Super young squad.

Houston/Giannis is the summer play! And imo, Bucks are crazy to run it back with their current situation. Houston is the only team that gives them win-now players, promising young prospects, juicy unprotected future picks, and still keeps a 6-8 rotation that can win it all. Plus they just hired back Hakeem to the coaching staff.