{"id":760136,"date":"2026-06-13T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:51:13","slug":"central-notes-giannis-pacers-workout-pacers-extensions-buzelis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/760136\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Notes: Giannis, Pacers Workout, Pacers Extensions, Buzelis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Dana Gauruder<\/a> |
\n at June 13, 2026 11:45 am <\/p>\n

Assuming the Bucks trade Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> before the draft, they apparently are looking to rebuild quickly through this draft class.<\/p>\n

The Bucks will assuredly receive the Heat\u2019s No. 13 pick along with other draft capital if they deal their franchise player to Miami, Jake Fischer of The Stein Line tweets<\/a>. Fischer also hears that Milwaukee is calling other teams in search of a third top-20 pick in this draft, potentially another pick in the top 10.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee already holds the No. 10 selection in the draft, which is 10 days away.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from the Central Division:<\/p>\n

The Pacers will hold another pre-draft workout on Monday, featuring Donovan Atwell<\/a> (Texas Tech), Anthony Dell\u2019Orso<\/a> (Arizona), Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a> (Purdue), Xaivian Lee<\/a> (Florida), Rienk Mast<\/a> (Nebraska), and Braden Smith<\/a> (Purdue), according to a team press release<\/a>. It\u2019s their fifth pre-draft workout this year. This group is mainly comprised of second-round prospects, headlined by former Boilermakers point guard Smith (ranked No. 38 on ESPN\u2019s Best Available list<\/a>).
\nThe Pacers have eight extension-eligible players on the roster, including Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>, Pascal Siakam<\/a> and Ivica Zubac<\/a>. The Indianapolis Star\u2019s Dustin Dopirak<\/a> notes the eligibility date, current contract and highest possible extension for each of those players and gives his insights on how the front office might approach each of those decisions.
\nIn an interview with K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Sports Network (video link<\/a>), Bulls forward Matas Buzelis<\/a> describes the impact that broadcaster and former Bull Stacey King<\/a> had on the team\u2019s younger players. King, 59, passed away<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dana Gauruder | at June 13, 2026 11:45 am Assuming the Bucks trade Giannis Antetokounmpo before the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[39129,7,2456,103,38857,123,532,973,102,121,3871,6,279,8967,6977,2458,278,15111],"class_list":["post-760136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-anthony-dellorso","tag-basketball","tag-braden-smith","tag-bucks","tag-donovan-atwell","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-ivica-zubac","tag-matas-buzelis","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-pascal-siakam","tag-rienk-mast","tag-stacey-king","tag-trey-kaufman-renn","tag-tyrese-haliburton","tag-xaivian-lee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116743837011777735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760136","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=760136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}