{"id":189407,"date":"2026-04-08T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189407\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:45:34","slug":"brooklyn-nets-reportedly-arent-giving-up-on-giannis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189407\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets reportedly aren&#8217;t giving up on Giannis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops team\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/nba-news\/1953786\/brooklyn-nets-reportedly-arent-giving-up-on-giannis\/mailto:info@eurohoops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/brooklyn-nets\/?lang=en\" title=\"Brooklyn Nets\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> may have defeated a shorthanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/milwaukee-bucks\/\" title=\"Milwaukee Bucks\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> team on Tuesday, but their long-term sights remain set on Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/sports\/nets-havent-given-up-on-trying-to-acquire-giannis-antetokounmpo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the New York Post<\/a>, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/brooklyn-nets\/?lang=en\" title=\"Nets\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nets<\/a>\u2019 recent shift toward a roster rebuild, the front office is still determined to land the Greek superstar.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of this pursuit has been complicated in the past. Last summer, when Giannis first hinted at a potential exit from Milwaukee, the Nets were occupied with trading Mikal Bridges to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/new-york-knicks\/?lang=en\" title=\"Knicks\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Knicks<\/a> for a historic haul of draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, that move stripped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/new-york-knicks\/?lang=en\" title=\"Knicks\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Knicks<\/a> of the assets needed to trade for Giannis themselves, leaving Brooklyn in a much stronger position to make a future play.<\/p>\n<p>While the Nets are currently focused on developing their own lottery picks, sources insist the team is not backing down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll make calls. They\u2019ve made calls in the past,\u201d a source told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Having hoarded massive draft capital, Brooklyn is positioned to strike when the superstar market eventually shifts.<\/p>\n<p>As Post noted, Nets could be among the first to call Milwaukee this summer, ready to go \u201call in\u201d to finally secure a franchise-altering leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net The Brooklyn Nets may have defeated a shorthanded Milwaukee Bucks team on Tuesday, but their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-189407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189407","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=189407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}