{"id":755097,"date":"2026-06-23T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755097\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:17:08","slug":"the-celtics-missed-out-on-giannis-so-what-next-nbc-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/755097\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celtics missed out on Giannis. So what next? \u2013 NBC Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blockbuster deal is shaking up the Eastern Conference, but Boston won&#8217;t benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/nba\/heat-acquire-giannis-antetokounmpo-in-blockbuster-trade-with-bucks\/3885940\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded star player Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat<\/a>. The trade puts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/tag\/boston-celtics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a> back at square one for any potential trade moves for star Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/nba\/boston-celtics\/giannis-trade-celtics-heat-before-nba-draft-report-shams-charania\/3969129\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reported that Boston offered Brown<\/a> and two future first-round picks for Antetokounmpo. Instead, the Bucks went with a Heat trade that sends five players from Miami up north and gets Milwaukee three first round picks.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Antetokounmpo had an injury-ridden last season and the Bucks missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-time all-star spent his career in Milwaukee and led the franchise to an NBA championship in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s left for the Celtics? Do they continue to look for a big trade including Brown, who is still under that supermax contract?<\/p>\n<p>The cards are out on the table now, and it looks like the team and Brown feel like a change needs to be made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blockbuster deal is shaking up the Eastern Conference, but Boston won&#8217;t benefit. The Bucks have traded star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,1664,590,85],"class_list":["post-755097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755097","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=755097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}