{"id":566315,"date":"2026-04-05T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566315\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:40:08","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-confirms-bucks-and-knicks-discussed-trade-during-last-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566315\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo confirms Bucks and Knicks discussed trade during last offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo addressed his personal and private family decisions in a one-on-one interview this week as the Bucks\u2019 disappointing season grinds to an end. Antetokounmpo volunteered the subject matter first. His wife, his children, his brothers and mom are the driving force behind almost everything he does in life \u2013 as a basketball player, as a provider, as a family leader. His inner circle is tight and small, and it&#8217;s almost all family. And his brothers are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Milwaukee Bucks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> franchise because of him. So, choosing to come to Milwaukee without Mariah and the kids was difficult, but Antetokounmpo thought it was for the better. \u201cBecause I didn\u2019t know how the season was going to unfold,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were a lot of rumors about me. There was a lot of a uncertainty about me \u2013 from both sides.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2026\/04\/05\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-struggled-with-separation-from-family\/89436246007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National media outlets reported that the Bucks and the New York Knicks were exploring trade possibilities, and Antetokounmpo confirmed that was the case, although those reports also stated that nothing was in serious stages;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;National media outlets reported that the Bucks and the New York Knicks were exploring trade possibilities, and Antetokounmpo confirmed that was the case, although those reports also stated that nothing was in serious stages&quot;}\" class=\"link \">National media outlets reported that the Bucks and the New York Knicks were exploring trade possibilities, and Antetokounmpo confirmed that was the case, although those reports also stated that nothing was in serious stages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2026\/04\/05\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-struggled-with-separation-from-family\/89436246007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo addressed his personal and private family decisions in a one-on-one interview this week as the Bucks\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[108152,359,360,355,361,250380,99,29981],"class_list":{"0":"post-566315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-disappointing-season","9":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-private-family-decisions","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-bucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}