{"id":743970,"date":"2026-05-25T23:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/743970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:51:15","slug":"latest-on-giannis-antetokounmpo-hoops-rumors-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/743970\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Giannis Antetokounmpo | Hoops Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heat and Celtics are believed to be atop Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>\u2018s current list of desired trade destinations, according to Marc Stein of The Stein Line<\/a> (Substack link).<\/p>\n

\"\"While Miami has long coveted the Bucks superstar and will likely have \u201csubstantive\u201d talks with Milwaukee about a possible deal, Stein say\u2019s it\u2019s not certain how Boston feels about a potential franchise-altering trade that would likely have to involve Jaylen Brown<\/a> and at least three teams.<\/p>\n

Stein continues to hear Antetokounmpo prefers a trade to an Eastern Conference team capable of competing for championships rather than a move to the West. That presumably has to do with the strength of the Thunder and Spurs, whose young cores could make the two teams fixtures atop the conference for years to come.<\/p>\n

Although Stein doesn\u2019t expect the Mavericks to pursue Antetokounmpo this summer because they\u2019re focused on building around Cooper Flagg<\/a> (for what it\u2019s worth, they also lack future first-round picks), league sources tell The Stein Line that the two-time MVP has long been intrigued by the possibility playing in Dallas.<\/p>\n

As Stein explains, Antetokounmpo\u2019s Mavs interest was first piqued by the possibility of teaming up with Luka Doncic<\/a>, who was shockingly traded to the Lakers in February 2025. The 31-year-old continued to monitor the team from afar due to his close relationship with Jason Kidd, who recently parted ways with the team after five years as head coach, Stein writes.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks did some background work leading up to the deadline to try and determine if Antetokounmpo was still interested in a possible trade to Dallas, according to Stein, who says Kidd\u2019s exit wouldn\u2019t necessarily preclude a deal. New Mavs president Masai Ujiri is also close to Antetokounmpo and the Raptors \u2014 Ujiri\u2019s former team \u2014 were long linked to the Greek forward.<\/p>\n

Still, Stein reiterates that Antetokounmpo is focused on Eastern clubs and he\u2019s expected to have a considerable amount of say in trade talks, since he only has one guaranteed year on left on his contract. Antetokounmpo becomes extension-eligible in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Heat and Celtics are believed to be atop Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2018s current list of desired trade destinations, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,225,123,3716,78,368,6833],"class_list":["post-743970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-jason-kidd","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-luka-doncic","tag-masai-ujiri"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116637904861922526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743970","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=743970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}