{"id":29505,"date":"2025-05-13T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/29505\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:45:13","slug":"lou-williams-gives-honest-take-on-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/29505\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Williams Gives Honest Take on Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of speculation on the plan for the Milwaukee Bucks and their franchise star Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n<p>As the Bucks 2024-25 season is over after getting knocked out of the NBA Playoffs by the Indian Pacers, Milwaukee has some decisions to make before they take the court again in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo has shown his interest in possibly leaving the team he&#8217;s spent his entire 12-year career with in hopes that he could join a team that has higher upside in winning NBA championships.<\/p>\n<p>After the end of the Bucks&#8217; season, he was asked about his future in Milwaukee and he wasn&#8217;t interested in making anything public.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to almost half way through the month of May, insiders and even his own teammates have spoke on what the nine-time All-Star may do.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Portis spoke on the situation and he said that Antetokounmpo &#8220;bleeds green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lou Williams gives his opinion on Giannis Antetokounmpo trade talks<\/p>\n<p>With all this being said, Run It Back host and ex-NBA player Lou Williams spoke on the situation as well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I have no intention on staying with a young lady, I&#8217;m not gonna be in her comments teasing her,&#8221; Williams said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that he believes that Antetokounmpo will be staying with the team that he&#8217;s been with and won a championship with in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>There has been great success for Antetokounmpo throughout his career has a member of the Bucks \u2013 becoming a two-time MVP, as well as winning a Defensive Player of the Year award in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As teams begin the NBA offseason, it will be difficult to see the 6-foot-11, 243-pound forward playing anywhere else than with the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always a chance he could be traded \u2013 but at what cost would a deal between two teams actually take place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been a lot of speculation on the plan for the Milwaukee Bucks and their franchise star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,507,103,123,4851,102,121,3871,6,3095,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-29505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","12":"tag-lou-williams","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-milwaukeebucks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-championships","18":"tag-the-bucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114499887169062699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505","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=29505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}