Less than a week away from the NBA\u2019s Feb. 5 trade deadline, the rampant trade rumors around the league will finally come to a head.<\/p>\n
The biggest name swirling around this year\u2019s deadline is Bucks superstar and face of the franchise Giannis Antetokounmpo. It\u2019s yet to be seen whether Milwaukee will move on from its star after 12-plus seasons, but all signs point toward a potential breakup that could come now or in the offseason.<\/a><\/p>\n One of the top potential suitors for Antetokounmpo is the Warriors as Golden State tries to capitalize on what\u2019s left of Steph Curry\u2019s illustrious career while the team deals with a season-ending torn ACL<\/a> to second star Jimmy Butler. To acquire Antetokounmpo\u2019s massive $54.1 million salary for this season, any team would need to find a way to make the money work.<\/p>\n For the Warriors, two big veteran contracts loom in trade discussions\u2014Butler\u2019s $54.1 million and Draymond Green\u2019s $25.8 million. Butler\u2019s salary matches Antetokounmpo\u2019s perfectly, but Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. has said he doesn\u2019t envision trading Butler because of the injury as he is on the books to return to Golden State next season.<\/p>\n That leaves Green as a large chunk of what the Warriors could use to match Antetokounmpo\u2019s salary, but Golden State parting with the veteran forward after 13-plus seasons and four championships would be a shock in its own right. On Friday night, Green addressed the potential uncertainty of his future with the franchise he\u2019s been synonymous with throughout his career.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been here for 14 years,\u201d Green said via ESPN\u2019s Anthony Slater<\/a>. \u201cI have no reason to sit and worry about leaving. But if I\u2019m traded, that\u2019s part of the business. I ain\u2019t losing no sleep though. I slept great last night.\u201d<\/p>\n Green would likely only be included in a trade that nets a massive upgrade for the current roster. Golden State could use Jonathan Kuminga\u2019s $22.5 million contract as a piece of a bigger deal or to bring in players to deepen the rotation during Butler\u2019s absence. Kuminga\u2019s value on the trade market after his trade demand is a question, however, and Dunleavy acknowledged it may be minimal<\/a>. Working in the Warriors\u2019 favor is Kuminga has a team option for next year, essentially making his contract expiring for teams interested in clearing salary for next season.<\/p>\n Slater, citing team sources, reported that there\u2019s a sense everyone on Golden State\u2019s roster besides Curry is vulnerable as the front office chases Antetokounmpo. That puts Green\u2019s Warriors future in jeopardy, at least for the time being. He has yet to be traded or put on a different jersey since the Warriors made him the 35th pick in the 2012 NBA draft, later becoming a critical piece of Golden State\u2019s title teams.<\/p>\n What\u2019s clear is that Golden State must make a move if it wants to compete for a title in the current NBA. Should the Warriors make another championship push with Curry, the surrounding roster will look a lot different than the last title squad from \u201822.<\/p>\n More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than a week away from the NBA\u2019s Feb. 5 trade deadline, the rampant trade rumors around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-573246","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115990710576245123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573246","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=573246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}