{"id":733682,"date":"2026-05-13T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/733682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:54:22","slug":"warriors-heat-discussed-trades-with-bucks-at-draft-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/733682\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors, Heat discussed trades with Bucks at draft lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At first, the Golden State Warriors\u2019 choice of Larry Harris to represent them at the draft lottery Sunday was curious. Harris is clearly a trusted executive, having worked for the Warriors for 18 years, the last decade spent as director of player personnel and assistant general manager. But he also spent 20 years with the Milwaukee Bucks, serving as the team\u2019s GM from 2003-08.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s why it\u2019s intriguing that ESPN\u2019s Jay Williams reported that the Bucks had \u201ca whole lot of Giannis conversations\u201d at the lottery, specifically with the Warriors and the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Warriors\u2019 interest in Giannis Antetokounmpo is no secret. They\u2019ve been eyeing, circling around, discussing, sniffing around, gauging the interest of, lobbying for, seriously considering, setting their sights on, and even exploring trade scenarios for the Bucks forward for years. Now that the Bucks are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenstateofmind.com\/warriors-news\/110637\/dub-hub-bucks-open-for-business-on-potential-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade-per-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201copen for business\u201d<\/a> regarding Antetokounmpo, it\u2019s time for the Warriors to make that big trade!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">However, the lottery results didn\u2019t help their cause. The Warriors didn\u2019t move up from the No. 11 pick, though on the plus side, the Heat didn\u2019t move up either. Getting a top-4 pick might have sweetened a potential package for the Greek Freak, especially in a draft with a clear consensus top four prospects in AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, Cameron Boozer and Caleb Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s obvious why the Warriors would be interested in Antetokounmpo. It\u2019s less clear why Antetokounmpo would be interested in a Warriors team that was under .500 and missed the playoffs last season, even if he has a fondness for Steph Curry. Even if Larry Harris is incredibly plugged in to the Bucks front office, he can\u2019t magically turn a package headlined by Draymond Green, Brandin Podziemski and the No. 11 overall pick in 2026 into a better offer than what Milwaukee could get from a number of other teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But the Warriors also don\u2019t have a lot of options better than taking a home-run swing on Antetokounmpo if they want to maximize the rest of Steph Curry\u2019s career, and trading for Antetokounmpo is probably more likely than convincing LeBron James to take a substantial pay cut to relocated 350 miles north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s still quite early to be making moves, but as a wise man from Tupelo, Mississippi, the Warriors need a little less conversation, and a little more action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first, the Golden State Warriors\u2019 choice of Larry Harris to represent them at the draft lottery Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6,37651,8939,22703],"class_list":["post-733682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-nba-news-and-rumors","tag-warriors-rumors","tag-warriors-trade-rumors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116569968698350421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733682","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=733682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}