Giannis Thread - 13th Season with the Bucks

[midranger]

Body language alert: I think he’s checked out of mke and just looking for/hoping for any excuse to make his exit.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he sat a big handful of games before the trade deadline just to “prove” a point.

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

My thought is what Ron Swanson said on this post. Giannis is telling us and being 100. If we’re not doing good I suspect Giannis will want out. He of course wants to win. That set aside teams I would engage trade talks with Raptors, Spurs, maybe Hawks, maybe the Knicks but it would need to be a 3 team deal. NOW any team that wants Giannis need to take Kuzma PERIOD!

Raptors I would be interested in are: Scottie Barnes, Quickley, G. Dick or Aghabi, C. Murray -Boyles
Spurs: One of Harper or Castle, Sochan, Vassell, H. Barnes
Hawks: J. Johnson, Risachar, Kennard, A. Newell

Why would we water down a Giannis trade to get off a contract that doesn't matter to us in the new timeline? If anything we should be taking on bad contracts with future assets.

[raferfenix]

Brian Windhorst: Most importantly, after this season, Giannis only has one year on his contract. So whether you got into Giannis potentially wanting to revisit this in mid-season or whether you got into it in the six or seven-month timeline that he has given us so generously, you would have to look at a place where Giannis would want to be. This wouldn’t be an open bidding war. You wouldn’t have a situation like you had with Dame Lillard where you could have a market he doesn’t want you to come in. He would have some control. And part of me believes the reason he didn’t go full bore into the trade demand this summer — where he sort of sat around and didn’t make noise about it in June and July and didn’t make a move until the August — was because he knew that he would have much more control next year. And so if that happens, then you’re looking at a team like Golden State or a team like New York who could leverage Giannis’ desire to be in a big market — which I think is going to be a factor.”

https://www.hoopshype.com/story/sports/nba/rumors/2025/10/09/brian-windhorst-most-importantly-after-this-season/86608526007/

[soxperry]

i would be very happy for Steph if he could team up with Giannis.. but that's about where that ends. New York.... you know i could live with that honestly. I think New York fans would really love him and appreciate him. I also think New York, although they dont have any picks really, could give us a much better package. It may not seem great at the time until we flip the players for more.

but.. once the season starts i dont want to talk about this anymore.. there's still a shot this can be good.. so let's focus on that

[HKPackFan]

No one else finds it concerning that Giannis Wife, kids & Mom will be in Athens while he's here playing basketball? Not from a he's going to demand to be traded standpoint but just being away from your family 8+ months. Something smells off about this or the fam just really hates Milwaukee.

I just find it odd how he watched dame suffer so much without his family around and Giannis being all about family is now going to do the same thing.

[Dick Tate]

but.. once the season starts i dont want to talk about this anymore.. there's still a shot this can be good.. so let's focus on that

Sounds good… until the first DNP anyway…

[Packbuckman]

Giannis is not going anywhere I don’t believe a word that hack that is Shams is! This bucks team is going to be good a lot better then last yrs team that won 48 gms.

[paulpressey25]

Body language alert: I think he’s checked out of mke and just looking for/hoping for any excuse to make his exit.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he sat a big handful of games before the trade deadline just to “prove” a point.

Oh yeah. At last nights game he sat in a regular seat and fidgeted. The guy we knew would have been jumping on the bench cheering on the scrubs.

He’s struggling with how to do this. And Shams is the guy who’s been fed this info the past few months. Kills me to say that.

ETA: did not watch the second half. Evidently he was cheering for Thanasis.

ETAII: From last night.

Read on Twitter

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[RogerMurdock]

I really don't care about all the noise. We've all seen that Giannis doesn't filter his honest thoughts, so when he says obvious stuff like (paraphrasing), "Who knows what the future holds," the media just runs with it and says he wants to leave the Bucks. So really, I don't care. I just look forward to watching basketball.

[tonyreyes123]

Giannis has won 8 series with us with 4 being the 2021 title which looks just as flukey as the Lakers 2020 title.

It was a Bucks/Hawks/Suns/Clippers final 4 lmao

[midranger]

Most trade restrictions end around December 15th, right?

[midranger]

Giannis has won 8 series with us with 4 being the 2021 title which looks just as flukey as the Lakers 2020 title.

It was a Bucks/Hawks/Suns/Clippers final 4 lmao

Also, the Nets having injuries to 2 of their 3 best players.

Anyway, it’s crazy to think we haven’t had more playoff success with Giannis. Similar situation to Favre and Rodgers. Best player on the planet willing you to one championship at the height of their power, but coaching/personnel was never close to good enough to establish a dynasty.

[paulpressey25]

Giannis has won 8 series with us with 4 being the 2021 title which looks just as flukey as the Lakers 2020 title.

It was a Bucks/Hawks/Suns/Clippers final 4 lmao

Nah, we win in 2022 also if Khris doesn’t go down. Not standing for title blasphemy.

The more pertinent observation is Giannis himself was injured in the playoffs in 2020, 2023 and 2024.

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

Giannis has won 8 series with us with 4 being the 2021 title which looks just as flukey as the Lakers 2020 title.

It was a Bucks/Hawks/Suns/Clippers final 4 lmao

Also, the Nets having injuries to 2 of their 3 best players.

Anyway, it’s crazy to think we haven’t had more playoff success with Giannis. Similar situation to Favre and Rodgers. Best player on the planet willing you to one championship at the height of their power, but coaching/personnel was never close to good enough to establish a dynasty.

It was also flukey we didn't win the other years. Even the best teams have like a 1/4 shot winning it all. We were the best team for five years, 1-2 rings is realistically expected with zero probably being as likely and 3

[pifhluk23]

Something has definitely changed with Giannis. The comments and his family leaving. We should probably trade him before he demands it, just start quietly shopping him.

[ACGB]

The Luka trade made him paranoid we're going to trade him even if he never asks for it and now he wants to leave before it happens. That's my conspiracy theory.

[paulpressey25]

The Luka trade made him paranoid we're going to trade him even if he never asks for it and now he wants to leave before it happens. That's my conspiracy theory.

I think he’s asked for it. In his own way with all these signals.

That said, maybe the team gets out of the gate fast and winning brings a smile back to his face.

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

I really dont see how this changes much. We are better off with him this year unless: 1. we are blown away with a trade. 2. we absolutely suck. If he said, I love being here and Shams is a liar really doesnt impact the realities of our timeline. We are in the same exact situation in April if we lose in R1 whether Giannis moved his kids or not.

[aboveAverage]

The Luka trade made him paranoid we're going to trade him even if he never asks for it and now he wants to leave before it happens. That's my conspiracy theory.

I think he’s asked for it. In his own way with all these signals.

That said, maybe the team gets out of the gate fast and winning brings a smile back to his face.

Why wouldn’t he have done so back in May/June? Why do it now?

Maybe he’s dealing with other stuff, not everything in his life is related to the Bucks.

He’ll be excited when the season starts and we start playing exciting ball. This team looks fun and will be pretty good.

[emunney]

Most trade restrictions end around December 15th, right?

Yep. Hoopsrumors (a really good resource for a lot of NBA minutiae) always has a good breakdown of when trade restrictions expire.

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2025/09/players-currently-affected-by-trade-restrictions-4.html