Milwaukee is acting like they can win a championship with Giannis and $22.5 million in dead cap on the roster

[One Last Shot]

oh so you have the hardest ring in the history of the NBA

Sounds achievable, it’s not like Giannis has a HoFer veteran named Jason Kidd or Shawn Marion or a Tyson Chandler or even a Jason Terry

Moving the goal posts. You asked, one was found.

Meanwhile, even that was a goalpost move since the original poster talked about being a contender, not necessarily winning.

And Giannis is better than Dirk was that year, and Turner adds more on offense than Tyson.

Oh, prior year champ Lakers lost Adam Morrison, who was taking up 10% of cap. If I look more, will find more similar examples, maybe not of champs and maybe not 15%, but close enough and of contenders. (Heck, Porzingis 2 years ago was making 36 million and only played 7 games in the playoffs, though managed to play 3/4 or so of regular season).

Sit down.

Nah, I already explained it in modern context.

This is equivalent to Denver without Aaron Gordon or Draymond on the Warriors.

In the modern CBA, it isn’t possible.

Porzingis was mentioned in OP, but the Cs spent a significant amount more on the luxury tax.

If you take a moment to analyze by era and consider the situation in it’s entirety, maybe you might realize that the only people that tell other’s to “sit down” on the internet are those that need to touch grass.

So you dare other posters to look on every NBA title team historically to prove you wrong and when someone did found a much higher percentage salary than Dame's strecth salary you are now changing the goal post to modern era and not historically anymore?

name a team that has won the championship with that salary on their roster

look at every team historically, name one that has won with $22.5 million of nothing on their roster. The only half example is Boston with Porzingis, and Milwaukee has no one comparable to Jaylen Brown or even Jrue Holiday as a 2nd and 4th option.

[Godymas]

Moving the goal posts. You asked, one was found.

Meanwhile, even that was a goalpost move since the original poster talked about being a contender, not necessarily winning.

And Giannis is better than Dirk was that year, and Turner adds more on offense than Tyson.

Oh, prior year champ Lakers lost Adam Morrison, who was taking up 10% of cap. If I look more, will find more similar examples, maybe not of champs and maybe not 15%, but close enough and of contenders. (Heck, Porzingis 2 years ago was making 36 million and only played 7 games in the playoffs, though managed to play 3/4 or so of regular season).

Sit down.

Nah, I already explained it in modern context.

This is equivalent to Denver without Aaron Gordon or Draymond on the Warriors.

In the modern CBA, it isn’t possible.

Porzingis was mentioned in OP, but the Cs spent a significant amount more on the luxury tax.

If you take a moment to analyze by era and consider the situation in it’s entirety, maybe you might realize that the only people that tell other’s to “sit down” on the internet are those that need to touch grass.

So you dare other posters to look on every NBA title team historically to prove you wrong and when someone did found a much higher percentage salary than Dame's strecth salary you are now changing the goal post to modern era and not historically anymore?

name a team that has won the championship with that salary on their roster

look at every team historically, name one that has won with $22.5 million of nothing on their roster. The only half example is Boston with Porzingis, and Milwaukee has no one comparable to Jaylen Brown or even Jrue Holiday as a 2nd and 4th option.

Yes because I can counter argue what I want

[Rubios]

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No, a team that’s expected to get the 7 seed with the 5th best player in the league getting the 4 seed doesn’t warrant an automatic MVP. But it’s just that this move takes the Bucks from a team that has no path to contention for 2 years to a team that has no path to contention for 5 years. Seems like a pretty bad move to me.

Anteto is the FIFTH best player in the league? Whoa. Who are the other four, because I could only name one...

[iggymcfrack]

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No, a team that’s expected to get the 7 seed with the 5th best player in the league getting the 4 seed doesn’t warrant an automatic MVP. But it’s just that this move takes the Bucks from a team that has no path to contention for 2 years to a team that has no path to contention for 5 years. Seems like a pretty bad move to me.

Anteto is the FIFTH best player in the league? Whoa. Who are the other four, because I could only name one...

1. Jokic
2. SGA

(gap)

3. Wemby
4. Luka
5. Giannis

This isn’t based on last season. This is for the upcoming season where I expect Luka to be in much better shape than normal and Wemby to continue to improve.

Side note: It kinda stuns me how many people continue to rate Giannis ahead of SGA like the last 3 seasons never happened. I mean he might have peaked higher, but it’s not 2021 any more. The version of Giannis that’s a dominant defender is never coming back.

[HMFFL]

Milwaukee will be a working progress.
They need Kyle Kuzma to gain some value but he's just not good.

I hope Kevin Porter Jr is focused and ready to take gis game to the next level. Maybe he has matured.