{"id":189264,"date":"2026-04-08T06:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189264\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:46:06","slug":"despite-a-bleacher-report-story-that-claimed-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189264\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite a Bleacher Report story that claimed Brooklyn \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 2026, 2:04 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/sports\/nets-havent-given-up-on-trying-to-acquire-giannis-antetokounmpo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Post\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Despite a Bleacher Report story that claimed Brooklyn had called the Bucks about Antetokounmpo, sources told The Post that the Nets never did.<\/a> Having paid Houston dearly to reacquire their natural 2025 and \u201926 first-round picks \u2014 and now committed to building with those lottery picks \u2014 it was the worst possible timing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/sports\/nets-havent-given-up-on-trying-to-acquire-giannis-antetokounmpo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Post\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 8, 2026, 2:04 a.m. ET Despite a Bleacher Report story that claimed Brooklyn had called the Bucks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,56,63,15480,15481,4503,3802,7204,30181,15482,12491,13941,1047,949,35611,11884,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-189264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-sstssportsnbarumors","17":"tag-sstsnnba-rumors","18":"tag-tagbasketball","19":"tag-tagbrooklyn","20":"tag-tagbrooklyn-nets","21":"tag-taggiannis-antetokounmpo","22":"tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","23":"tag-taghouston","24":"tag-tagmilwaukee-bucks","25":"tag-tagoverall-negative","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagsports-transactions","28":"tag-tx","29":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}