{"id":4922,"date":"2025-04-30T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/4922\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:32:10","slug":"major-nba-3-team-trade-idea-sends-magic-a-175-million-2-time-mvp-for-franz-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/4922\/","title":{"rendered":"Major NBA 3-Team Trade Idea Sends Magic a $175 Million 2-Time MVP for Franz Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indiana Pacers advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals for the second consecutive season Tuesday. But in the aftermath of their first-round series victory, most around the league are talking about the team the Pacers beat — the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n

The specific discussion centers around Bucks two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and whether the nine-time All-Star could be traded this offseason.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, SI on Hawks’ Rohan Raman proposed<\/a> the Bucks, Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks orchestrate a three-team trade that results in Antetokounmpo landing with the Magic.<\/p>\n

In the three-team trad pitch, the Magic received Antetokounmpo along with Bucks forward Bobby Portis and Hawks guard Kobe Bufkin.<\/p>\n

The Magic would then give up four players in the trade — Franz Wagner, Jonathan Isaac, Cole Anthony and Goga Bitadze — and three first-round picks (2025, 2027 and 2029).<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo\u00a9 Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

In Raman’s proposed trade, all of those assets went to Milwaukee except Bitadze, who headed to the Hawks.<\/p>\n

“The Magic are currently the worst offense in the playoffs by PPG and they were the 28th-ranked team in the same category during the regular season,” Raman wrote<\/a>. “There isn’t much to say about how badly they need an injection of offensive talent and Giannis is exactly that.<\/p>\n

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“The fit with Paolo Banchero might take some figuring out, but they would be able to run a jumbo-size duo at the wing position rife with passing and midrange scoring.”<\/p>\n

Raman admitted the move would come with risk for Orlando. The team simply might not want to part with small forward Franz Wagner, who averaged<\/a> a career-high 24.2 points during the 2024-25 season, either.<\/p>\n

But there’s little doubt that if the Magic acquired Antetokounmpo, they’d immediately become a leading contender in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Related: Blockbuster NBA Trade Idea Pairs Giannis Antetokounmpo and Victor Wembanyama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Pacers advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals for the second consecutive season Tuesday. But in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,507,406,403,123,875,677,126,2821,2822,121,6,76,402,2820,361,401],"class_list":{"0":"post-4922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-cole-anthony","11":"tag-franz-wagner","12":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","13":"tag-goga-bitadze","14":"tag-hawks","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-jonathan-isaac","17":"tag-kobe-bufkin","18":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-orlando-magic","21":"tag-paolo-banchero","22":"tag-rohan-raman","23":"tag-the-bucks","24":"tag-the-magic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114428349247903060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","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=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}