{"id":480942,"date":"2026-01-26T21:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480942"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:37:01","slug":"knicks-face-an-uphill-battle-if-the-bucks-ever-put-giannis-on-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/knicks-face-an-uphill-battle-if-the-bucks-ever-put-giannis-on-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks face an uphill battle if the Bucks ever put Giannis on the market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1918\">Per <strong data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1649\">Sam Amico<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1674\">New York Knicks<\/strong> will be linked \u201cloudly\u201d to <strong data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1727\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> rumors if he ever becomes available, yet the practical hurdles are significant. The piece references Bobby Marks\u2019 outline of what a Bucks reset might look like and which teams can truly bid.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1920\" data-end=\"2187\">The biggest issue is draft capital: Marks notes New York\u2019s only non-swap first is a <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2037\">top-eight protected 2026 pick<\/strong>, likely to remain with Washington. Financially, the Knicks sit <strong data-start=\"2101\" data-end=\"2125\">over the first apron<\/strong>, meaning they can\u2019t take back more salary than they send out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2536\">That shifts any real pursuit toward player-heavy constructions instead of pick-centric offers. One theoretical route mentioned is <strong data-start=\"2319\" data-end=\"2341\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/strong> as the outgoing star, or a package built around <strong data-start=\"2390\" data-end=\"2404\">OG Anunoby<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2406\" data-end=\"2419\">Josh Hart<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2425\" data-end=\"2442\">Mikal Bridges<\/strong> (trade-eligible Feb. 1) \u2014 but it still leaves New York entering a bidding war short on chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks includes New York among teams that could be mentioned, but the path is messy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"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-480942","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\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480942","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=480942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480942"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480942"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480942"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}