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Ira Winderman: Interesting…amid uncertainly of whether the Heat will keep or trade No. 13 (in a possible Giannis Antetokounmpo deal), the Heat have announced a draft party June 23 at Kaseya Center, with the announcement saying,” Watch as Miami\u2019s draft pick takes the stage”<\/a> Details: \u2014 6\/6\/2026 x.com<\/a><\/p>\n

As much as the idea of Thunder splurging for Giannis to counter Wemby might make sense on paper, league\u00a0sources\u00a0with\u00a0knowledge\u00a0of the Thunder’s thinking continue to dismiss them as a legitimate Giannis Antetokounmpo suitor<\/a>. The Thunder obviously have the draft capital and an abundance of talented young players to get Milwaukee’s\u00a0attention, but it’s wise in times like these to consider Sam Presti’s history. Presti is hardly known for paying exorbitant trade costs to bolster his roster … let alone for an older newcomer like Antetokounmpo would be at 31. You’ll recall that Paul George was 27 \u2014 smack dab in the middle of his prime \u2014 when the Thunder acquired PG-13 from the Pacers without even sacrificing a draft pick in a swap that sent Domantas Sabonis and Victor Oladipo to Indiana. \u2014 6\/6\/2026 marcstein.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n

As much as the idea of Oklahoma City splurging for Giannis to counter Wemby might make sense on paper, league\u00a0sources\u00a0with\u00a0knowledge\u00a0of the Thunder’s thinking continue to dismiss them as a legitimate Giannis Antetokounmpo suitor<\/a>. The Thunder obviously have the draft capital and an abundance of talented young players to get Milwaukee’s\u00a0attention, but it’s wise in times like these to consider Sam Presti’s history. Presti is hardly known for paying exorbitant trade costs to bolster his roster … let alone for an older newcomer like Antetokounmpo would be at 31. You’ll recall that Paul George was 27 \u2014 smack dab in the middle of his prime \u2014 when the Thunder acquired PG-13 from the Pacers without even sacrificing a draft pick in a swap that sent Domantas Sabonis and Victor Oladipo to Indiana. \u2014 6\/6\/2026 marcstein.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Defensive Player of the Year portion followed the same pattern. Lau had Rudy Gobert third, even though Gobert was the runaway consensus pick with 82.2 percent of the maximum possible score that season. Giannis Antetokounmpo and George rounded out the Top 3 among voters, and Lau picked neither. His Top 2, Draymond Green and Joel Embiid, did not crack the Top 3 of the award overall. Though the league is less punitive about outlier votes than you might expect, it goes without saying that was the final ballot Lau ever got for end-of-season NBA awards<\/a>. \u2014 6\/5\/2026 HoopsHype<\/a><\/p>\n

With the Heat among the teams most aggressively pursuing a trade for Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> two-time NBA MVP and nine-time All-NBA forward Giannis Antetokounmpo this offseason, Jaquez has been among the names speculated to be in Miami\u2019s potential trade package for Antetokounmpo. Jaquez was also involved in trade rumors connected to the Heat\u2019s pursuit of Damian Lillard during the 2023 offseason, but Lillard was ultimately dealt to the Bucks shortly after Jaquez was drafted by Miami with the 18th overall pick that summer. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s just the way it is being on a Miami Heat team,\u201d Jaquez said from the NBA House in Sa\u0303o Paulo on Friday afternoon during a Zoom call with reporters. \u201cI think that it\u2019s kind of normal. I\u2019ve been here for what, three years now? And every summer there\u2019s a big rumor. So I\u2019ve kind of just gotten used to it. It\u2019s nice to get out of the country and see new things, and Brazil is beautiful.\u201d<\/a> \u2014 6\/5\/2026 Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n

Tim Reynolds: Giannis Antetokounmpo spent “a few days” in South Florida this week for “off-court business including events related to the FIFA World Cup,” a person familiar with his plans tells us<\/a>. \u2014 6\/5\/2026 x.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Heat Central: Giannis Antetokounmpo has questions about what the Heat roster would look like after a potential trade, per @sam_amick \u201cThe noise is tied to Miami but there\u2019s also intel discussion that Giannis has questions about what that Miami roster would look like on the other side of a deal. You don\u2019t want to gut your roster and go to the place you\u2019re excited to be in and have a hard time contending for a championship\u201d<\/a> (h\/t @dpshow ) \u2014 6\/5\/2026 x.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh No He Didn’t: \u201cIn speaking to someone that I know that works there they’ll say stuff like Giannis wants to stay in Milwaukee, Giannis wants to leave Milwaukee” –<\/a> @BA_Turner \u2014 6\/5\/2026 x.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Dru Star: \u201cThe Heat thing is real. The Heat offer is real\u2026it’s pretty player & pick heavy. Why that’s important is because the Bucks have indicated that if you’re going to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo, they want picks & players. This checks that box\u2026I think to me that\u2019s the best package.\u201d<\/a> @JimOwczarski \u2014 6\/4\/2026 x.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of their first-ever NBA Finals appearance since 1999, the New York Knicks<\/a> can no longer be identified as a potential destination for Giannis Antetokounmpo. “They did make offers, but they felt the Bucks didn’t really want to move Giannis. The Bucks, meanwhile, felt the Knicks weren’t making strong enough offers to entertain trading Giannis,” Shams Charania of ESPN said as he joined Tracy McGrady’s Cousins podcast for a special Finals edition. “At the end of the day, they washed their hands of that situation. Now, they’re in the NBA Finals, and I think we can all safely say the Knicks are not going to be one of the teams Giannis will be on next season. There are going to be other destinations for that.”<\/a> \u2014 6\/3\/2026 BasketNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ira Winderman: Interesting…amid uncertainly of whether the Heat will keep or trade No. 13 (in a possible Giannis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[72400,7,113,126,3866,6,114,91059,53093,72522,72404,72437,72411,72953,72442,72408,72444,72422,72611,72666,72643,72406,72687,72751,72403],"class_list":["post-754417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnba","tag-sstsnnba","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcontains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-taggiannis-antetokounmpo","tag-tagjaime-jaquez-jr","tag-tagmiami-heat","tag-tagmilwaukee-bucks","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnew-york-knicks","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsan-antonio-spurs","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tagvictor-wembanyama","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754417","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=754417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}