{"id":480428,"date":"2026-01-23T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480428"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:19:25","slug":"nba-trade-season-windhorst-everything-is-hinging-on-giannis-antetokounmpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-trade-season-windhorst-everything-is-hinging-on-giannis-antetokounmpo\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA trade season, Windhorst: \u201cEverything is hinging on Giannis Antetokounmpo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1744\" data-end=\"2038\">According to <strong data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1788\">Brian Windhorst<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"1794\" data-end=\"1814\">NBA trade season<\/strong> is \u201chinging\u201d on one question: whether <strong data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"1878\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> will come to market.<br data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1902\" \/>He argues a Giannis deal would trigger massive, multi-team trades because of the contract size and the likely need for multiple players.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2040\" data-end=\"2289\">So far, however, there\u2019s been no trade request from Antetokounmpo and no indication the <strong data-start=\"2128\" data-end=\"2137\">Bucks<\/strong> are initiating conversations.<br data-start=\"2167\" data-end=\"2170\" \/>The closest movement mentioned is brief Bucks\u2013<strong data-start=\"2216\" data-end=\"2226\">Knicks<\/strong> talks in August, described as presumably connected to Giannis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2291\" data-end=\"2574\">ESPN frames the deadlock as mutual reluctance: Giannis would rather not formally ask out and risk his standing in Milwaukee.<br data-start=\"2415\" data-end=\"2418\" \/>Meanwhile, the Bucks reportedly won\u2019t entertain trading him unless he explicitly requests it, with 2027 free agency and an October extension window looming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN says the market could explode if Giannis Antetokounmpo ever becomes available, but neither he nor the Milwaukee Bucks have shown intent to act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480428"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480428"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480428"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}