Basketball is the second most popular sport in Serbia (Jokic), Spain (Gasol brothers), Slovenia (Luka) and Greece (Giannis). It’s disingenuous to say it is a minority sport when all the top European players come from countries where basketball is massively popular. There are no all time great players coming from England or Portugal, nor do they come from South America because those countries don’t care about basketball. Your argument would be like Americans arguing basketball or baseball are a “minority sport” because we care about football the most.
@Smudge7Four@suxfee@Smokeouters@ARCRaidersGame lol no you didn’t. A rattler 1 with no attachments cannot one clip you from 100-150 meters away due to shot dispersion. Y’all just complaining for no reason
Barring OKC, Houston or SA offering their young stars, the Heat have to be favorites if these goes into the summer. The warriors offer can’t improve this off season but the Heats offer can. To me, unless giannis demands to be traded now, I don’t see why the bucks would move him at the deadline because they hurt their chances of maximizing. Golden state can offer the exact same package in the offseason as they can now yet every other teams offer improves + there’s the chance that other teams get involved that could offer even more. This is coming from a warriors fan
The warriors team will be depleted. Surely they will try their best to fill in players post Steph but you can’t replace Steph. Giannis may not co-sign the trade for this reason. Giannis will be good still of course but he will be much older and is already injury prone. He’s played 8 of his last 16 playoff games. I don’t see his injury problem getting better. Only one serious injury to giannis and those post Steph warriors team are deep in the lottery. Plus 2030-2032 picks giannis will be approaching his end
@Uncle__Jrue @Firu_2005 @Dylanqt_@TheDunkCentral@basketballtalk Pretty good package. Not sure if pacers want to give up their pick this year though. It’s a historic draft pick and their core is already young. But yeah this is clearly a top tier package for the bucks
It’s not next to nothing. You’re betting that Steph at 40 years old isn’t an all star level player by 2028. Then you have 3 picks from that year moving forward that are all likely high lottery picks. Giannis won’t be on the team as he likely only extends through Steph’s retirement.
Just look at what the Thunder and rockets did. Thunder are still harvesting draft picks from the clippers dating back to a trade 7 years ago. Even without Shai the Thunder would have put themselves in a tremendous spot. Rockets are in a great spot from the harden trade which made the KD move possible.
There’s no move that’s going to make the bucks strong in the next 5 years. When you deplete all your assets for a win now team that’s what happens. Hawks aren’t trading Jalen, Thunder aren’t breaking up Chet or JDub, spurs aren’t trading castle. There’s no incentive for young teams with young cores to blow their team up for someone not on their timeline. You have to look at older teams that need to make win now moves.
@Uncle__Jrue@Dylanqt_@TheDunkCentral@basketballtalk Swaps in 31 and 29 are highly valuable. Warriors will be dog water. I agree that a 27 swap isn’t worth much bc the bucks will have a better pick that year. After Steph retires warriors will go into the tank