Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo may pressure his manner out of the franchise in 2025 if the workforce have one other underwhelming season.
That’s in line with a report from Invoice Reiter, an NBA insider for CBS Sports activities who additionally wrote that the participant’s most popular locations embrace the Miami Warmth and Brooklyn Nets.
Antetokounmpo, a two-time league MVP in 2019 and 2020 and Finals MVP winner in 2021, has struggled with plenty of premature accidents round playoff time for the previous few years.
In 2023, he missed two video games of Milwaukee’s first spherical sequence defeat to Miami and in 2024 he suffered a calf damage on the finish of the common season which dominated him out indefinitely.
The Bucks have started the season in ugly style, beating the Philadelphia 76ers on their opening night time earlier than three straight losses to the Chicago Bulls, Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics.
Khris Middleton is as soon as once more sidelined with an damage and Antetokounmpo’s chemistry with co-star Damian Lillard has regarded disconnected ever for the reason that blockbuster commerce a yr in the past.
“There’s a rising sense of confidence that if issues go badly in Milwaukee that Giannis could possibly be obtainable for commerce, would actually pressure his manner out of Milwaukee, within the subsequent yr.”@sportsreiter pic.twitter.com/9V4MovUmSw
— CBS Sports activities (@CBSSports) October 31, 2024
May Giannis Antetokounmpo depart the Bucks in 2025?
There appears to be each likelihood that Giannis may pressure his manner out subsequent yr if issues don’t go as hoped. He has a participant choice in 2027 and Milwaukee would need the largest return they will get, so a commerce is feasible.
Doc Rivers is a reasonably uninspiring head coach within the present period of the NBA and it doesn’t look seemingly that he’ll go wherever quickly, contemplating he signed a deal price $40 million in January.
Of the 2 reported groups within the participant’s curiosity, Milwaukee may get the extra profitable haul from the Warmth – with gamers like Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro and Jaime Jaquez on the desk.
