{"id":174841,"date":"2025-07-16T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/174841\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:00:13","slug":"gm-declares-he-has-done-everything-possible-to-keep-giannis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/174841\/","title":{"rendered":"GM declares he has done everything ‘possible’ to keep Giannis"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a turbulent offseason for the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>, who have fended off Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors<\/a> by waiving Damian Lillard and signing Myles Turner<\/a> using the cap space they cleared up. It remains to be seen if that alone will be enough to keep the Bucks above water in the Eastern Conference, but if it’s not, it won’t be for lack of trying.<\/p>\n

Recently, Bucks general manager Jon Horst<\/a> spoke on how the team has exhausted every resource<\/a> in trying to keep Antetokounmpo in a Milwaukee uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done everything, I\u2019ve done everything within my human possible power this offseason. I feel like our group works our butts off,\u201d said Horst, per Eric Nehm of The Athletic. \u201c\u2026We do everything we can to put the next version of this thing out there, to give Doc and Giannis and Bobby and Scoot (Kevin Porter Jr.) and the guys on our team every chance that they can to win every night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horst also acknowledged that he can’t say for sure whether his efforts have been enough to keep Antetokounmpo around for the long haul.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026have we done enough? I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll find out. Have we done everything that we possibly could? Absolutely,\u201d said Horst. \u201cAnd have we done more than anyone else could possibly do? I believe we have. And that\u2019s not an arrogant thing to say. In a very humble way. I think we\u2019ve done as much or more than anyone else could possibly do, and I\u2019m proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can the Bucks compete this year?\"Suns\u00a9 Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

At one point earlier this offseason, it looked like a Giannis Antetokounmpo trade was more or less an inevitability after the Bucks’ third straight first round postseason exit.<\/p>\n

However, the current injury-riddled state of the Eastern Conference may give Antetokounmpo motivation to try to run it back one more time in Milwaukee before looking for greener pastures.<\/p>\n

Turner will certainly be an upgrade at the center position over what Brook Lopez had been the last couple of years, but the Bucks don’t have a ton of help outside of that for Antetokounmpo, particularly at the guard spot.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee’s season will begin in late October.<\/p>\n

Jackson Stone<\/a> is a sports journalist for ClutchPoints with expertise in covering the NBA, NFL, and CAA Football. The Mercer University senior from Atlanta is on track to graduate with a BA in communications, and he has bylines at FanSided and USA Today Sports’ Georgia athletics website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been a turbulent offseason for the Milwaukee Bucks, who have fended off Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,123,20265,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-174841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","11":"tag-jon-horst","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-milwaukeebucks","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}