Giannis Thread - "The Finals are different, I hope to be back soon with the Bucks"

[MickeyDavis]

Can we please not post stuff from fake accounts? It's enough to filer out all the b.s. from legit accounts.

[Daver]

If he’s gone it’s Houston or San Antonio. I’d take those two over the field.

What in the flying fu.. can SA offer that isnt absolute garbage ffs trade giannis for what maybe 2 meh players n a couple 1st really.Would rather have torontos garbage than SA

Don't think I dont notice that hockey logo under your username Mr. closet Raps fan. San Antonio can blow away a Raptors offer and be an instant title contender. The Bucks could completely wipe out Toronto's cabinets, still not come close to what San Antonio can offer and they'd be a doormat team with Giannis and nothing else.

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

[Daver]

If he’s gone it’s Houston or San Antonio. I’d take those two over the field.

What in the flying fu.. can SA offer that isnt absolute garbage ffs trade giannis for what maybe 2 meh players n a couple 1st really.Would rather have torontos garbage than SA

Don't think I dont notice that hockey logo under your username Mr. closet Raps fan. San Antonio can blow away a Raptors offer and be an instant title contender. The Bucks could completely wipe out Toronto's cabinets, still not come close to what San Antonio can offer and they'd be a doormat team with Giannis and nothing else.

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

[CharityStripe34]

100.000 Greeks in Toronto. Makes sense

I'm about a 2.5 hour drive across the border and Toronto's Greek Town is a shell of what it was. Most of those residents left the city and moved toward Scarborough.

Fun city though, even if I greatly prefer Montreal.

For all the brouhaha about the "franchise altering" meeting they apparently had there hasn't been a peep about it since. Probably because both sides communicate fairly often.

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[jakecronus8]

What in the flying fu.. can SA offer that isnt absolute garbage ffs trade giannis for what maybe 2 meh players n a couple 1st really.Would rather have torontos garbage than SA

Don't think I dont notice that hockey logo under your username Mr. closet Raps fan. San Antonio can blow away a Raptors offer and be an instant title contender. The Bucks could completely wipe out Toronto's cabinets, still not come close to what San Antonio can offer and they'd be a doormat team with Giannis and nothing else.

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

Needs some emojis.

[Ron Swanson]

Shams, Windhorst, national media, etc. are now maintaining the meeting hasn't even happened yet. At this point I'm guessing even Haynes doesn't have a clue and was just relaying the Jim O. tidbit from weeks ago. Don't get me wrong, I always laughed off their attempts at steering the "Giannis is gonna ask for a trade" narrative for the past half decade, but these last few weeks have actually surprised me at just how completely full of **** every one of these guys are. They're no different than paid "social media influencers".

[Bucknado]

Isn’t he in Greece now? Is he gonna demand a trade on a Teams meeting?

[buckboy]

What in the flying fu.. can SA offer that isnt absolute garbage ffs trade giannis for what maybe 2 meh players n a couple 1st really.Would rather have torontos garbage than SA

Don't think I dont notice that hockey logo under your username Mr. closet Raps fan. San Antonio can blow away a Raptors offer and be an instant title contender. The Bucks could completely wipe out Toronto's cabinets, still not come close to what San Antonio can offer and they'd be a doormat team with Giannis and nothing else.

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

San Antonio can offer #2/Castle, plus a couple of interesting young players in Sochan and Vassell, plus plenty of Atlanta picks and their own.

Toronto can offer............a bunch of their own picks? And some significantly less interesting players.

[RRyder823]

Social media really has rotten people's brains to the point of no return. (on pretty much every level but for sake of argument let's just stick to sports:)

Doesn't matter where they see it. Can be an obvious troll account. People take it as if its gospel.

We got people believe believing Giannis has allready demanded a trade (because something something)

We got people believing that he wants a trade to GS because of a photo of him and Steph during a game (because something something evidence)

We got people believing he wants to play in NY (because if there's a few things we know about Giannis is he is definitely going to want to sign up for those taxes and cost of living because he loves the big market)

We got people believing he wants nothing more than to play in LA (see the above NY paragraph)

We got people believing hes allready only got a list of 1 team and the Bucks better just accept bench players and a pick or hes gonna walk in a year (never mind the two years on the contract)

We have people believing he's gonna have to agree to immediately extend with whichever 1 team he wants to be traded to. (nevermind he litterally cant)

And now we have he wants Toronto because..... (well sometimes it's fun to hear the classics)

That's all just from the last week and its all based off of......... Checks notes........ Hopes and dreams from random people on X. Which is actually understandable untill you realize that 95% people actually think these are reports comming directly from Giannis



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[Licensed to Il]

I think an interesting aspect of the social media impact on culture, is you get more traction/views/clicks discussing a fake story than you do if you say “let’s speculate about this..” So even when people are speculating/fabricating its become ok to just make up stuff or pretend like the rumor is valid. We do it here. Twitter is bad. Wiretap is egregious. ESPN is the worst.

[machu46]

Don't think I dont notice that hockey logo under your username Mr. closet Raps fan. San Antonio can blow away a Raptors offer and be an instant title contender. The Bucks could completely wipe out Toronto's cabinets, still not come close to what San Antonio can offer and they'd be a doormat team with Giannis and nothing else.

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

San Antonio can offer #2/Castle, plus a couple of interesting young players in Sochan and Vassell, plus plenty of Atlanta picks and their own.

Toronto can offer............a bunch of their own picks? And some significantly less interesting players.

I'm definitely on your side that a Spurs package >>> Toronto package. Having said that, I do think you're selling some of the Raptors players short. I prefer the relative unknown of Harper and Castle over the relative known of Scottie Barnes, RJ, etc., but Barnes, Dick, RJ, IQ, Walter, Agbaji, etc. are all fairly promising in different ways.

[Ron Swanson]

Year 5 Scottie Barnes isn't the centerpiece of a mega-deal for a star player anymore, no matter how many Raptors fans wanna gaslight people into thinking otherwise. What, the 9th pick in a 2-3 player draft, Gradey Dick, and just a bunch of their own future firsts? They have nothing else that a rebuilding team would covet.

[Daver]

Don't think I dont notice that hockey logo under your username Mr. closet Raps fan. San Antonio can blow away a Raptors offer and be an instant title contender. The Bucks could completely wipe out Toronto's cabinets, still not come close to what San Antonio can offer and they'd be a doormat team with Giannis and nothing else.

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

San Antonio can offer #2/Castle, plus a couple of interesting young players in Sochan and Vassell, plus plenty of Atlanta picks and their own.

Toronto can offer............a bunch of their own picks? And some significantly less interesting players.

#2 on a very hit n miss rookie sochsn n vassell fu... yuck never said i wanted torontos deal either .I aint trading giannis for garbage ( sochan n vassell) or torontos garbage.If giannis goes i want back 3 young above meh players who can move a needle all but slightly vassell/ sochan csnt do thst not in my opinion neither SA or tironto has such players.
Would rather get back 3 or 4 ²players than 3 or 4 unproven 1st round draft picks.

[soxperry]

Stay off tbe crack if your going to post.Im a 100% buck fan (closet raptor fan ) wow ignorance is not a excuse for being stupid.
Ok mr spur fsn tell me tbe ultimate poo poo platter the fricking spurs would offer that blows away any raptor offer.This should be interesting.
For the record im a uw womens hockey fan n jet fan but so what

San Antonio can offer #2/Castle, plus a couple of interesting young players in Sochan and Vassell, plus plenty of Atlanta picks and their own.

Toronto can offer............a bunch of their own picks? And some significantly less interesting players.

#2 on a very hit n miss rookie sochsn n vassell fu... yuck never said i wanted torontos deal either .I aint trading giannis for garbage ( sochan n vassell) or torontos garbage.If giannis goes i want back 3 young above meh players who can move a needle all but slightly vassell/ sochan csnt do thst not in my opinion neither SA or tironto has such players.
Would rather get back 3 or 4 ²players than 3 or 4 unproven 1st round draft picks.

Wow

[MickeyDavis]

Year 5 Scottie Barnes isn't the centerpiece of a mega-deal for a star player anymore, no matter how many Raptors fans wanna gaslight people into thinking otherwise. What, the 9th pick in a 2-3 player draft, Gradey Dick, and just a bunch of their own future firsts? They have nothing else that a rebuilding team would covet.

Of all the laughable stuff about Giannis this is the most hilarious. Raps are in the bottom 10 of what they can offer for Giannis. Maybe bottom 5.

But for fans of a franchise that has been garbage the last few years, if thinking about trading for Giannis gets them off have at it.

[HKPackFan]

Shams, Windhorst, national media, etc. are now maintaining the meeting hasn't even happened yet. At this point I'm guessing even Haynes doesn't have a clue and was just relaying the Jim O. tidbit from weeks ago. Don't get me wrong, I always laughed off their attempts at steering the "Giannis is gonna ask for a trade" narrative for the past half decade, but these last few weeks have actually surprised me at just how completely full of **** every one of these guys are. They're no different than paid "social media influencers".

24hrs sports news media. They need to justify their jobs. They throw **** at the wall and sees what gets eyeballs. Giannis is an international name and top 3 player in the league for a decade. They have to do something. Giannis is a boring family man, no news about him in a club, with girls, being Hollywood.. Nothing. So trade stories are all they got. So they will milk it and milk it and milk it. Gotta get paid and get eyeballs. It's all a BS show and you are right it's now very transparent.

[worthlessBucks]

Spurs or bust.

Toronto, yuck

[HKPackFan]

https://www.instagram.com/stories/giannis_an34/3646306448955290261?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=dHAzMGNrajZvamd0


Giannis joking about this leaving ****.

[emunney]

https://www.instagram.com/stories/giannis_an34/3646306448955290261?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=dHAzMGNrajZvamd0


Giannis joking about this leaving ****.

Just glad to see Kuzma getting some exercise

[Jstock12]

Hakeem won a ring with four vet role players, and two solid youngsters (Cassell and Horry). Giannis is Hakeem with handles. I don’t think there is any way we can contend next season. But there is a path to surrounding GA with the same type of cast (4-5 vets who fit the system, 1-2 up and coming youngsters) over the next two years and letting greatness rise. GA would have an easier path than Hakeem had through the mid 90s western conference.

You know..... there was a Toronto version of Hakeem as well

Jokes aside, I hope Giannis retires a Buck.