So…Giannis is Definitely Going to Demand a Trade Right?

[JustBuzzin]

okay, watch it from where i mention. Your calf is one of the strongest muscles in the body. im struggling to see where he got hurt. maybe it was on the jump and he just didnt feel it right away, or the landing, but I cannot see any he got hurt running back on defense.

So you think he faked a injury...

If so what does he gain for faking a injury?

doesnt risk future injury, can rest for a playoff run, signifigantly less media availability while hes hurt, can focus on his next team with his agent and the bucks.

Interesting if true.

[Effigy]

We'll see. If the Knicks' offer isn't that good, then the Bucks (if they even decide to trade him) might just do an F you deal to somewhere else. If you're getting a D+ package offer from the Knicks, who cares if you settle for a D- package somewhere else.

Well, if they have on their table a D+ offer from the Knicks and D- package from somewhere else - he'll go to the Knicks. But we don't know what Giannis truly wants for now, he may be fine with playing alongside Wemby in San Antonio, who knows - my point was that Giannis has a leverage to dictate effectively where he'll land because regardless of how great he's as a player, his contractual situation is tricky from perspective of any team not getting a promise of guaranteed extension or stuff like that.

So it's not conspiratorial, he has basically a 1.5y contract and can say 'I'll sign an extension only with the Knicks' (or whichever team). Giannis is a wonderful asset only if he doesn't willingly hardball other teams on the market.

On 'open market', there are several teams ready to outbid the Knicks, I suppose.

This isn’t a eBay auction. you are discounting the human element. The Bucks may choose another option just out of spite. We just saw that when Portland traded Dame. They resented how they were trying to fix the market and traded him elsewhere. The Knicks do NOT have the assets to get Giannis without including Brunson. So I don’t see that trade happening unless they can somehow get valuable picks by trading Towns and Bridges.

[Dr Aki]

Giannis just hurt his right calf?

Achilles injury alert?

[Mirotic12]

The real question is will the Bucks include Thanasis and Alex if not no deal

Plus offering a huge buyout to Olympiacos for Kostas.

[reload141]

He’s done with the Bucks

[kingr]

Are people really questioning if he actually got injured? smh.

[Parasite]

Are people really questioning if he actually got injured? smh.

It’s the NBA. Nothing is off the table in this fake ass WWE league.

[giannis and 1]

Should have demanded out like 2 years ago. Same with Jokic.

Unfortunate for us because whether he ends up being paired with Shai or Wemby, the league is doomed. Hopefully he goes to the Lakers instead to balance things out for parity sake. Can't let Shai just win everything.

What kind of mental illness is this?

[Jeremy Lin 7]

Are people really questioning if he actually got injured? smh.

It’s the NBA. Nothing is off the table in this fake ass WWE league.

Timing is wayyyy too convenient. Right after the Shams report? Sureeeee


Brain Sutterer MD, Conclusion: No specific event or action that concludes "injury"

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[doogie_hauser]

I find this whole vultures circling around the struggling Bucks and try swoop Giannis really distasteful and a bad look overall to the league (mainly talking ahout the media in all honesty)

Last few days and weeks must be a pretty awful timr for Milwaukee fans, especially on this forum.

Not enough consideration for their feelings has bern factored in and.i don't believe any non Bucks fans does try bait them delibrately (unless they suggest ridiculous low ball offers for Giannis) but i don't tjink many fans probably understand how many Bucks fans would be seriously hurting over possiblly losing the best player in their franchise's history.

[KGtabake]

The Bucks fans saying this is a fake injury don't deserve him. Never did tbh.
Like if he wants out he must pretend an injury....he can't just ask out. Smh

[Dr Aki]

[doogie_hauser]

The Bucks fans saying this is a fake injury don't deserve him. Never did tbh.
Like if he wants out he must pretend an injury....he can't just ask out. Smh

Its as bad as those non Bucks fans who say The Bucks and Doc/Front office made sure Gianns got this serious injury (plenty of these posts on Twitter/X)

[Beethoven]

Giannis for lebron and Co and rui and knect.


Come to the Lakers.

[txusto]

Are people really questioning if he actually got injured? smh.

It’s the NBA. Nothing is off the table in this fake ass WWE league.

[Black star]

Are people really questioning if he actually got injured? smh.

It’s the NBA. Nothing is off the table in this fake ass WWE league.

Timing is wayyyy too convenient. Right after the Shams report? Sureeeee


Brain Sutterer MD, Conclusion: No specific event or action that concludes "injury"

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"I've never seen anyone look directly straight down in front of them"
"There wasn't a serious step or plant/push off that would make me concerned"
"Nobody examined him"

Watch on YouTube

Giannis having the same injury a year ago. Notice how the lead up and reaction look astonishingly similar.

This fake injury stuff is in really poor taste

[Edrees]

So you think he faked a injury...

If so what does he gain for faking a injury?

doesnt risk future injury, can rest for a playoff run, signifigantly less media availability while hes hurt, can focus on his next team with his agent and the bucks.

Interesting if true.

they forgot lower asking price for an injured player. he doens't want a team to gut itself to get him. he saw the Lilliard trade firsthand.

Not that I think it's fake, I don't think that, but i understand why conspiracy people would think so, it would be in giannis favor to not be playing for the weeks leading up to his trade.

[Old_Blue]

He needs to come to HOU. The trade possibilities are endless. Sengun? Thompson? Neither? Endless picks? Houston is Giannis' destiny.

Unless you're in the witness protection program, Houston has no business being anyone's "destiny."

[desitmac91]

It’s the NBA. Nothing is off the table in this fake ass WWE league.

Timing is wayyyy too convenient. Right after the Shams report? Sureeeee


Brain Sutterer MD, Conclusion: No specific event or action that concludes "injury"

Watch on YouTube

"I've never seen anyone look directly straight down in front of them"
"There wasn't a serious step or plant/push off that would make me concerned"
"Nobody examined him"

Watch on YouTube

Giannis having the same injury a year ago. Notice how the lead up and reaction look astonishingly similar.

This fake injury stuff is in really poor taste

These look very different to me. The fall from last year looks far more natural.

[Dick Tate]

The Bucks fans saying this is a fake injury don't deserve him. Never did tbh.

Is there any way you could hold a staff and undo all of it? (But only for those few fans?)