{"id":744121,"date":"2026-06-18T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744121\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:56:17","slug":"the-nbas-latest-and-greatest-draft-and-trade-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744121\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA’s latest (and greatest) draft and trade Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Less than a week away from next Tuesday’s NBA Draft, which since early May has been regarded leaguewide as the Milwaukee Bucks’ self-imposed deadline to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo, there is a virtually universal sentiment shared by numerous front offices as well as the agents of players potentially involved in a Giannis deal.<\/p>\n

Everyone is more than ready for this saga to come to a merciful conclusion.<\/p>\n

And we know many of you are, too.<\/p>\n

Alas \u2026<\/p>\n

The possibility was raised Wednesday that we might not see a resolution by early next week. The topic of Antetokounmpo’s future in Brewtown has been a roller-coaster for more than a year and took another wild dip when a dear friend of The Stein Line \u2014 Chris Haynes \u2014 said on Sirius XM’s Deals & Dunks show that he’s lost some confidence in the idea that Antetokounmpo could be dealt by Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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SiriusXM NBA Radio@SiriusXMNBA<\/p>\n

“From what I’m hearing, this can drag on into free agency. This can drag on into July.”<\/p>\n

@ChrisBHaynes shares the latest on the Giannis trade rumors.<\/p>\n

Hear Deals & Dunks weekdays at 1pm ET on SiriusXM NBA Radio
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Let me, however, say this.<\/p>\n

I’m still optimistic.<\/p>\n

And now let me tell you why \u2026<\/p>\n

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There’s something important you need to understand about the Bucks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than a week away from next Tuesday’s NBA Draft, which since early May has been regarded leaguewide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-744121","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\/744121","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=744121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}