{"id":545984,"date":"2026-01-19T03:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545984\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:46:15","slug":"5-teams-monitoring-giannis-antetokounmpos-situation-with-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545984\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Teams Monitoring Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Situation With Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As teams refine their rosters, preparing for the NBA\u2019s next era, several stars could be on the move in the coming months. However, they\u2019re all hovering around Milwaukee Bucks showstopper Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>. At 31 years old, he\u2019s no longer in the spring of his youth. Nevertheless, he remains an elite forward who leaves his palm prints on the game at both ends. He\u2019s so dominant in fact that everyone thinks it\u2019s a travesty he\u2019s playing for the Bucks, who are 17-24 midway through the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

This feeling has become so palpable it\u2019s educing tangible results.<\/p>\n

In spite of Antetokounmpo\u2019s declarations of team loyalty, many believe it\u2019s only a matter of time before he asks for a trade. Indeed, \u201cthere\u2019s a whole bunch of teams around the league<\/a> \u2013the (Atlanta) Hawks, the (Golden State) Warriors, the (Los Angeles) Lakers, the (Miami) Heat, maybe the (New York) Knicks \u2013that are sort of thinking to themselves: \u2018Do we need to keep all of our stuff and wait for Giannis to maybe become available, whether it\u2019s now or in the summer, when the Bucks can offer him an extension?’\u201d (h\/t NBA on Prime\u2019s Zach Lowe)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole league is watching,\u201d Lowe adds. \u201cIf they slide any further down the standings\u2026 does Giannis push the button now instead of waiting until the summer?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As teams refine their rosters, preparing for the NBA\u2019s next era, several stars could be on the move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,123,102,121,3871,6,6050,7170,2828,3269],"class_list":{"0":"post-545984","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-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","13":"tag-milwaukeebucks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-rumors","16":"tag-nba-trade","17":"tag-nba-trade-deadline","18":"tag-nba-free-agency"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545984","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=545984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}