Should Mavs consider trading No. 1 pick for Giannis?

Yahoo Sports senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and Tate Fraizer discuss whether or not the Dallas Mavericks should consider trading their number 1 pick in the draft for Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. Hear the full conversation on “The Kevin O’Connor Show” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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The Bucks, they call up the Mavericks on draft night, and they offer Giannis for Cooper flag.

And salaries needed to meet the requirements to get Giannis.

Giannis for flag.

Are you saying yes if you’re the Mavericks?

If I am the Mavericks, I am definitely not even entertaining the phone call because of what is already like they just got given, they got response.

You’re not answering.

No, I’m not even there are no phone call like I, if I am the ownership group, yeah, if I’m, what’s his name, Pat, whatever, Dumont, I am making.

Sure that the lines are cut.

No one can call Nico.

Uh, we’re changing his phone number.

We don’t want him talking to the Boston Celtics, especially.

I feel like that’s the team that I would be circling the most to make sure that Brad Stevens does not get Nico Harrison’s phone number and call him with some sort of tantalizing idea, put in his mind that Cooper Flag’s gonna leave anyway after his rookie deal and come to the Boston Celtics.

So you might as well rip the band-aid.

Now, like, that would be the terrifying phone call.

But yeah, the Mavericks don’t answer the phone, do the right thing.

You got literally the greatest second chance of all time to kind of right the wrong of what you did with Luca.

You get a generational superstar who just happens to kind of be a power forward that fits into a similar vein as Dirk.

If his career can play out in a similar way, that would be amazing.

So as a franchise, the Mavericks should not, uh, pick up the phone.

And honestly, if I Giannis, and I do think that the Bucks are working with Giannis, or at least in communication with Giannis.

I think that Giannis has told them that it’s either send me somewhere in the east, elsewhere in the east, where I can go and dominate or like tell Chris Middleton to sign here for the minimum and you know, we, we try to figure out some way to get this machine going in Milwaukee for one more run.

I don’t know what it ends up looking like, but To me, Kevin, the, the Spurs are much more inclined to trade for Durant at #2 than they would for Giannis.

And I feel like the Mavericks, they can’t, even though the Mavericks kid definitely would take the phone call, I think internally that staff would be like, of course.

We want to have Giannis in this building.

They just can’t for PR reasons.

So I feel like as much as the Giannis talk is very interesting and fascinating, and Europe loves the Spurs, right, as a, as a continent, like that’s the team over there.

But yeah, you can’t do it.

Nico, don’t do it.

Leave Cooper flag in Dallas.

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