{"id":554596,"date":"2026-01-23T03:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/554596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:15:14","slug":"the-one-thing-in-way-of-knicks-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/554596\/","title":{"rendered":"The one thing in way of Knicks-Giannis Antetokounmpo trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo is accomplishing what I thought would\u2019ve been impossible a few years ago, back when he was the darling of the NBA, the champion of small markets and feel-good underdog stories.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis is turning unlikable.<\/p>\n<p>Each day, it seems, the Greek Freak carries a different and often passive-aggressive message about his future with the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>On the first Wednesday in January, it was that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/sports\/giannis-antetokounmpo-puts-bucks-trade-rumors-to-bed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019d never demand a trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo is accomplishing what I thought would\u2019ve been impossible a few years ago, back when he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,123,304,121,6,2828,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-554596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-trade-deadline","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115942242689679143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554596","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=554596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}