{"id":77920,"date":"2025-06-05T05:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/77920\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:19:22","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-a-trade-target-by-a-western-conference-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/77920\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo a Trade Target By a Western Conference Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giannis Antetokounmpo a Trade Target By a Western Conference Team<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have been a lot of teams linked to Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. While there is no assurance about what’s next for his career, rumors about a potential trade for Antetokounmpo have circulated. After the Bucks’ third straight exit in the first round of the NBA playoffs, fans believe the star forward will request a trade out of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

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There were high hopes for the Bucks’ second season with their star duo of Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard. However, injuries have prevented them from reaching their true potential in the postseason.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee suffered an unfortunate injury with Lillard’s\u00a0torn Achilles<\/a>. He’s expected to miss at least the entire 2025-26 campaign and is one of the reasons why people have speculated about Antetokounmpo’s departure.<\/p>\n

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Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo reacts after a play.Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Throughout all this, a few teams have been mentioned in trade rumors. One Western Conference team has been linked to the Antetokounmpo sweepstakes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Athletic’s Kelly Iko<\/a> reported that the Houston Rockets are interested in trading for the Greek Freak.<\/p>\n

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“Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo remains a target, team sources said, but there has been recent uncertainty in the past week on Antetokounmpo\u2019s actual availability \u2014 not to mention the potential asking price Milwaukee would require,” Iko wrote.<\/p>\n

The Rockets finished second in the West but were eliminated in the first round by the Golden State Warriors. Although the team has a promising young core, the group needs an experienced player to help them get past the tougher teams in the conference.<\/p>\n

Acquiring a player like Antetokounmpo could push the Rockets to actual title contention. The nine-time All-Star has been in\u00a0nine playoff appearances<\/a> in his 12-year career.<\/p>\n

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However, Houston has to wait until after Antetokounmpo’s\u00a0upcoming meeting<\/a> with the Bucks in the offseason.<\/p>\n

Related: Stephen A. Smith’s ‘Wishful’ Giannis Antetokounmpo Theory After Tom Thibodeau Firing<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 5, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo a Trade Target By a Western Conference Team originally appeared on Athlon Sports. There have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,125,866,123,164,194,102,121,3871,6,962,361,17834],"class_list":{"0":"post-77920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-damian-lillard","11":"tag-fred-vanvleet","12":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-milwaukee","16":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","17":"tag-milwaukeebucks","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-steven-adams","20":"tag-the-bucks","21":"tag-true-potential"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114629074221792408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920","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=77920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}