{"id":482397,"date":"2026-02-05T08:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482397"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:26:40","slug":"rival-execs-keep-wondering-are-the-bucks-truly-serious-about-a-giannis-antetokounmpo-deadline-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rival-execs-keep-wondering-are-the-bucks-truly-serious-about-a-giannis-antetokounmpo-deadline-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rival execs keep wondering: are the Bucks truly serious about a Giannis Antetokounmpo deadline deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1594\" data-end=\"1858\">Giannis Antetokounmpo is not seen applying meaningful public pressure to be dealt at the deadline, while still telling media he wishes he could stay and contend.<br data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1758\" \/>At the same time, he has reportedly accepted the reality and communicated a preference to be traded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"2147\">Charania said that message has forced the <strong data-start=\"1902\" data-end=\"1925\">The Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> to listen and engage with teams in the days leading into the deadline.<br data-start=\"1996\" data-end=\"1999\" \/>The strongest interest cited includes <strong data-start=\"2037\" data-end=\"2066\">The Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2068\" data-end=\"2091\">The New York Knicks<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2093\" data-end=\"2111\">The Miami Heat<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2116\" data-end=\"2146\">The Minnesota Timberwolves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2149\" data-end=\"2453\">The decision point remains whether Milwaukee executes a trade now or pushes the process to the offseason, with different risk-reward outcomes.<br data-start=\"2291\" data-end=\"2294\" \/>Sources around involved teams say there are ongoing questions about whether the Bucks are genuinely prepared to make a franchise-altering move at the deadline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1187\" data-end=\"1276\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Shams Charania, Giannis has told Milwaukee for months it\u2019s time to part ways, yet league sources still question whether a move happens before the deadline<\/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-482397","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\/482397","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=482397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482397\/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=482397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482397"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482397"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482397"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}