Yeah and if Bucks trade away Giannis and even get a future lottery pick back you know there is zero chance they will get the draft lottery rigged for them to get the number one pick unless the draft is awful with no real blue chip players then of course NBA would give MKE the #1 pick.
I think they really believed that Lillard would bring them the scoring threat on the outside that would free up Giannis in the paint - that it was worth losing Jrue to get that. But Lillard has been inconsistent and nowhere near as productive as he was in Portland, and often injured - and as a result he wasn't able to get the Bucks another shot at a championship. And I understand all the "speculation" because right now, Giannis is the only asset that the Bucks have that is worth anything. Nothing left to trade to build around him - so if he still wants to stay, they need a plan.
Only thing they can really say is we don't have draft picks and only thing we can do is over next couple years let guys contracts go so we clear up cap space so in a couple years we can go into FA and buy a big name FA. Is he willing to wait and go along with that would be the question.
Thing is because of bucks being 2nd apron they have to match salaries to trade Giannis so they will have to take players back. Though you figure a couple will likely be overpaid bad deals just to get the money to match.
Well that sucks. We'll just be real bad with no hope
yep. like howard said, the bucks screwed themselves. incompetent management.
which is why any trade right now brings very little value to the Bucks. AD / Luka was one sided, but nowhere near as one-sided as some of these speculative trades. This isn't Billy ball where 2 really good players are better than 1 great player - the NBA rewards the great players with stats that can't be replaced by 2 good players.