The Bucks have dealt away draft picks and constructed a nightmarish salary-cap sheet to appease Giannis Antetokounmpo. When in a hole, a sane person stops digging, but an ambitious one digs to China and emerges on the other side \u2026 as long as Earth\u2019s mantle doesn\u2019t melt them shortly into the journey.<\/p>\n
Chances are slim that Milwaukee would part with its only tradable first-round pick, league sources said. Instead, it could aim to acquire a distressed asset, using Kyle Kuzma\u2019s $22.4 million and\/or Bobby Portis\u2019 $13.4 million salaries to add a player of consequence, someone who makes above his market value (which is why his team would trade him) but brings in firepower.<\/p>\n
The Sacramento Kings\u2019 Zach LaVine fits the description, though his $49 million player option for next season has scared off most front offices. The Memphis Grizzlies are unlikely to part with Ja Morant for a return as small as what Milwaukee could offer. The Brooklyn Nets\u2019 Michael Porter Jr. is a worthwhile proposition, but Porter, a fringe All-Star this season, might have played his way out of a trade like this one. Brooklyn has rehabbed Porter\u2019s value enough where it would like value in return for him, league sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bucks have dealt away draft picks and constructed a nightmarish salary-cap sheet to appease Giannis Antetokounmpo. When…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-568670","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-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-milwaukeebucks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568670","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=568670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}