{"id":634871,"date":"2026-04-27T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:42:14","slug":"how-the-golden-state-warriors-could-land-giannis-antetokounmpo-in-a-blockbuster-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634871\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Golden State Warriors Could Land Giannis Antetokounmpo in a Blockbuster Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The trade would be agreed to by the Warriors and Bucks before the first night of the NBA draft on June 23, assuming Golden State doesn&#8217;t win a top-4 selection on the May 10 draft lottery. The Bucks inform the Warriors who to take at No. 11; a top-4 selection for Golden State changes the calculus entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The deal is executed on July 6, after the 2026-27 moratorium, under a projected $165 million salary cap, $200.5 million luxury tax, $209.1 million first apron, and $221.7 million second apron. The Warriors&#8217; 2030 first-round pick conveys if 1-20, as it is already promised to the Dallas Mavericks if 21-30. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Should the selection go to Dallas, the Bucks get a 2031 first-round pick swap with the Warriors instead. Golden State&#8217;s 2032 first-round pick has top-4 protection, otherwise it conveys unprotected to Milwaukee in 2033.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Warriors trigger a second-apron hard cap by aggregating Butler and Podziemski. The Bucks end with a first-apron hard cap by using the expanded traded player exception from Antetokounmpo&#8217;s outgoing salary to acquire the two Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade would be agreed to by the Warriors and Bucks before the first night of the NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-634871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634871","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=634871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}