Clutch0z24 wrote:Giannis even if he says Toronto and only Toronto (Not happening)....Giannis is under contract and is not a free agent....Bucks do NOT need to accept a low ball offer for their only superstar top 5 player they will prolly ever have for a long time if ever again.....They are going to get the best package/players they can out of Giannis because they do NOT control their own picks....Which means if they do not get a haul for Giannis their franchise would be in the dumps with nothing to show for...
Think of it in Bucks perspective before typing weird trade scenarios out....We prolly have to give up RJ + Barnes + Dick or Walter + Treasure chest of draft picks....We are not going to be able to low ball them cause we do not hold the leverage in the situation because Giannis is NOT a free agent and Bucks don't have to trade him here if we low ball them....Its not like a Siakam Situation where we either trade him to the Pacers for something or hes going to the Pacers in free agency for nothing...
There's another dynamic that pulls in the opposite direction.
Giannis has a lot more control than you are presenting here. If giannis doesn't give his blessing to be traded to a team....then he's a 2 year rental. Noone wants to give up the kind of package it will take for a 2 year rental.
So the big package you are talking about won't exist from a team unless Giannis shows indication that he wants to be there and will extend his contract next summer.
Suppose giannis specifically says "I don't want to go to okc". Do you think they would trade chet, IH and 5 first rounders for a 2 year rental?
So it's NOT just about the Bucks taking the biggest package because Noone will OFFER a big package unless Giannis indicates he will play there for multiple years (and will sign an extension next summer).
This is what ppl didn't understand about the doncic trade. Everyone said "why don't they shop him around?"
They couldnt have. Because Doncic would have immediately said "if you trade for me...I won't extend with you". His motivation for doing this would be simple: he lost 100 million dollars by being traded. So his agent would naturally tell every team "IF YOU TRADE FOR LUKA YOU WILL ONLY GET HIM FOR 1.5 YEARS". Which of course would drastically lower his trade value....defeating the whole point of "shopping him around".
The only way to trade luka without only getting rental-level offers was to do the trade in total secrecy. That way....Luka's agent didn't have a chance to tell everyone he wouldn't extend with them.
If they had shopped him around....they wouldnt have even got something equal to the Lakers package. Luka would've sabotaged his value in order to keep the extra 100 million bucks.
