{"id":673603,"date":"2026-03-23T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/673603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:12:00","slug":"bucks-co-owner-says-giannis-antetokounmpo-will-be-extended-or-traded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/673603\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks co-owner says Giannis Antetokounmpo will be extended or traded"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the end of this year, the NBA\u2019s long and draining Giannis Antetokounmpo saga should finally be over. At least, it will be if you believe Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens in a conversation with ESPN\u2019s Ramona Shelburne<\/a>. With Antetokounmpo able to opt out of his contract after the 2026-27 season, the coming months should pressure the Bucks into action around their clearly frustrated superstar. Antetokounmpo will be eligible for a contract extension on October 1st. If he tells the Bucks he will not sign the $275 million extension, Milwaukee is put in a position where they have to trade him or risk losing him for nothing in free agency the following year.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiannis is going into the last year [of his contract],\u201d Edens told Shelburne.\u201cSo one of two things will happen: Either he will be extended or he\u2019ll be traded. The likelihood you\u2019ll let him just kind of play out the last year, we can\u2019t afford that. It\u2019s not consistent with what\u2019s good for the organization. That\u2019s not a Giannis issue. That\u2019s any player that\u2019s in their last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelburne\u2019s reporting around the conversation, however, undermines Edens\u2019 simplistic statement. The fact is Antetokounmpo\u2019s saga in Milwaukee has seemed heading toward him forcing his way out for years. The Golden State Warriors, of course, made an aggressive push to acquire him at this year\u2019s deadline. However, Milwaukee chose to hold onto him for a little bit longer and the Dubs opted to swap Jonathan Kuminga for Kristaps Porzingis.<\/p>\n

While the Warriors were one of the few teams interested and able to acquire Antetokounmpo during the current season, it seems far more difficult to envision them getting a deal done this offseason. The fact is, every team has more financial flexibility during the offseason, and several teams with proven young players are more likely to enter the trade market after some squads inevitably under perform during the postseason. Nevertheless, Joe Lacob will surely be trying to wishcast a Warriors deal for Giannis into existence anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the end of this year, the NBA\u2019s long and draining Giannis Antetokounmpo saga should finally be over.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,5842,102,121,3871,6,37651],"class_list":["post-673603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-general","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-nba-news-and-rumors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116275835271881570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673603","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=673603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}