{"id":210843,"date":"2025-10-13T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210843\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:49:09","slug":"a-surprising-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade-idea-to-beat-knicks-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210843\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprising Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade Idea to Beat Knicks Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Like the Raptors did with Kawhi in 2018-19, the Pistons could win a championship within months of acquiring Giannis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum out for most (and potentially all) of the 2025-26 campaign, the East has rarely been as open as it is now. And a team headlined by Cade Cunningham and Antetokounmpo would have as good a chance as any to represent the conference in the Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Giannis is, at worst, the fourth-best player in the world. He&#8217;s averaged at least 28 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in each of the last six seasons. And in 2024-25, Cade made Third Team All-NBA and averaged 26.1 points, 9.1 assists and 6.1 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In other words, Detroit would have two top 10-15 players, with a supporting cast that would still include a rim-running double-double machine (Jalen Duren), shooting (from Duncan Robinson) and a promising young wing (Holland).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Pistons would probably have to find a way to add a little wing or guard depth. And figuring out the division of labor between Antetokounmpo and Cunningham could take some time, but having multiple superstars has long been a near-prerequisite for winning an NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This trade would check that box for Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like the Raptors did with Kawhi in 2018-19, the Pistons could win a championship within months of acquiring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-210843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}