2025-26 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

AR/Rui/Gabe/Kleber for Giannis works salary wise, we'd be adding in whatever draft capital we have to trade too. I'd have a lot of concerns, though. First, Giannis already didn't want to run a bunch of PnRs with Dame, is he going to be okay doing that with Luka now? Giannis has also always wanted to play next to a floor-spacing 5, rather than playing the 5 for significant minutes himself. How does that work with Ayton, would we need to go out and find a new center? There are not many floor-spacing 5s that are actually good players. Is LeBron back to playing the 3 full-time? We'd be back to having basically no assets to build the team around Luka and Giannis.

I do agree, though, that we may still need to take some big swings. OKC is a monster and will be even after they replace their expensive role players with new ones. Spurs are coming. Nuggets will continue to be an extremely high-floor team. With AR becoming a Top 20 guy there is some temptation to just be patient and let it grow organically, but these other teams in the West are so good and poised to keep improving I'm not sure we can do that.

 

I kind of agree on Reaves, which is wild to say. I have a bias with Giannis I can't shake. Ugly, ugly game, but the results speak for themselves. I'm not sure if gutting depth and adding Giannis puts us over the hump this year. OKC is a wagon that would require us to develop cohesion at an unrealistic level. Could we position ourselves a year later? Possibly, but what could we realistically do where we'd feel confident mortgaging the future?

 

i might prefer bridges to anunoby because i think he's a better fit with luka/reaves going forward. great defensive versatility. and isn't he buddies with reaves? i think we could get his agent to steer him here. plus we have baby anunoby!

also, don't think bridges can be moved until february?

no.

sk beat me to it, but i also remember giannis not liking the idea of setting screens.

they can outbid us even if we include reaves, i think. so if they want him, they'll get him.

yeah, we're already trying to play catch up in luka's prime. to me, the right play is to try to prey on the fringes of wherever giannis moves to gather guys that fit with luka/reaves going forward.

yet to be seen, and guys can always get hurt. you want to be in position to capitalize when some juggernaut gets an ill-timed achilles tear.

i'm out on giannis unless it's for lebron.

 

Garbage any trade with Gianiss begins and ends with Reaves.

 

Also they have several bench vets who interest me to varying degrees if they trade Giannis that they'll be giving away for free.

Portis as a 7th/8th man.

Trent, Coffey in the 9th/12th man role.

I can't do the Prince thing again, plus Ham might be on suicide watch if they're separated.

Out on Kuz, as well

 

One team to watch out for is Brooklyn.

1. Cap Space

2. young players

3. young players for salary to work Michael Porter Jr.

4. Draft picks

5. for Gianiss. They can then sign another free agent in the off season to pair with him. And you have New York it’s Brooklyn.

 

Giannis should go to San Antonio. Giannis + Wemby is a devastating 1-2 punch, defensively they’d be an all time elite duo.

Wemby can space or go inside for Giannis.

I’d try to keep Harper if I was them and send fox and castle plus firsts.

 

I like Giannis, but not giving up a lot of depth + all draft picks for him. That just gets us completely stuck if we need adjustments after that. Plus, the fit with Ayton is clunky.

 

I absolutely don’t think the Lakers are a destination for a Gianiss trade. Don’t do it.

it would be so Lakers. Those trades are done with Mark Watters. Gianiss is 31. I love him but that’s a hard 31. Your spacing immediately goes away that you had with Reaves.

I value the chemistry Reaves has with Luka. And I may be in the minority but when Reaves has his own team he’s on a Luka level.

I love Reaves game and he can be a 30 point a game scorer in this league.

post LeBron you have something with Luka and Reaves splash brothers esque.

don’t f*** it up. I remember when Jerry West didn’t trade Klay Thompson for Kevin Love. Keep your core players.

let him go to the Knicks and let them trade OG and Bridges and completely gut their team again like they did with Melo and let them figure it out.

He can go to Miami for Tyler Hero and Kelel Ware.

or maybe he can go to the Clippers for that beautiful number 1 pick that will be Cameron Boozer. Wait wait I’m getting word oh that’s right that Clipper pick is going to OKC for the Paul George trade.

Larwrence Frank and The Clippers still getting f***ed by Paul George. No Vasoline Ice Cube.

and Kawhi still demands Shai be included in the trade.

but hey Clippers you guys still have the most toilets.

 

Watch out for Denver.

they can say f*** it and make the basketball move.

and Trade Jamal Murray and Cameron Johnson for Gianiss.

they still have Baun

 

I think Giannis will be a Knick.

 

What was Milwaukee thinking dumping Lillard and getting Myles Turner this offseason?

They should've blown things up. Windhorst saying that they'll help Giannis get to his "preferred" team (sounded like the Knicks?). At least the Bucks are treating him better than the Clippers did to Chris Paul!



Not sure if we (I'm in the camp for not trading for Giannis by the way) or the Knicks really have things the Bucks want. San Antonio, OKC, and other teams have more enticing assets.

 

Also one thing that people are not taking into account is that Luka is still 26. The Luka trade made our future picks much less interesting to other teams, than when we had Bron + AD, and the future looked bleak.

I think we should skip on Giannis, even if Milwaukee likes what we have. The core of Luka/Reaves/Ayton looks a pretty solid foundation if we can retain them.

 

The Spurs are probably the most likely destination but Gianiss wants to go to New York. So just keep this East coast.

I’ll let you guys play around and Marinate on this.

1. if I’m Milwaukee I pitch Gianiss and I want this. Give me Jalen Johnson the young Center who played at Chino Hills Owknkwo and a draft pick and I’ll trade Gianiss.

Atlanta can go

Trey Young
Nikel Alexander
Rissue
Gianiss
Porzingis

that team comes out the East and wins a championship and can challenge OKC they have length.

Milwaukee can rebuild with a young Gianiss Clone in Jalen Johnson who is a superstar and 10 time All Star and Oknkwo I’ll try to spell his name and a pick and go young. You still have some young talent in the cream city.

like Rollins and you run with Porter Jr. that’s the most balanced equal trade for both Parties.

Giannis in the A!!!!!

I hate the San Antonio trade makes them a juggernaut. Nope I don’t want Fox. Give me the pick Harper jr. And Castle simple as that.

I’m not gifting you Gianiss and Wemby so you can pair them with Harper Jr. and win for 10 years.

trades gotta be equal wait we got Luka for Davis okay well close to equal you know what I’m saying.

Reaves for Gianiss

Johnson for Gianiss

Jalen Williams for Gianiss. No OKC your picks aren’t enough. This isn’t Sony PlayStation where we are going to give you Gianiss Holmgren Jalen Williams and Shai at that point we’ll just send you the 4 championship rings.

 

this

 

I think the way the Dodgers is being run is how you’ll see this team being run.

Development scouting player development. We got a gift Ayton at 26 big with soft hands the lead in to exclusively negotiating with him.

We got Reaves young core player 26 years old on his way to superstardom.

We got Luka 26 years old superstar maybe best player in the league.

And we have Thiero who is raw and can develop into a young OG defensive anchor perimeter defender. Young OG let that set in lol.

You gotta develop the bench OKC style build it. That’s what the Dodger Brass does. You want to build the farm.

You still have Knect.

build your young squad. You have good young core. Don’t f*** it up.

 

giannis and wemby would be the greatest big man duo of all time

so let's hope that doesn't happen

 

I don't know what I think about a Giannis trade yet, but for the sake of argument future picks would become available down the line. Say we traded for Giannis on December 15th when Austin's trade restriction lefts, we could only trade 1 future 1st. But on draft night I think two additional future firsts would be become available. Also, yeah the fit with Ayton may be clunky but that just means you get rid of Ayton.

As I think it over, I think I pass on this trade just because it would take a while to build the right supporting cast around Luka and Giannis (and that assumes Giannis and Luka even works, which I'm not sure about for the him not wanting to be a roll-man most of the time), and by the time we get the pieces right Giannis may no longer be a Top 5 guy.