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Will Bucks Trade Giannis Antetokounmpo? Draymond Green Weighs In

7 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief commentary, Draymond Green explains that Giannis Antetokounmpo appears dissatisfied with the Milwaukee Bucks, citing the player's removal of all Bucks-related content from his Instagram as a public signal of discontent. Green notes that moving a player with a roughly $50 million contract is extremely difficult because of NBA salary‑cap and matching‑salary rules, which would force a team to give up a large portion of its roster to make the trade work. Consequently, the pool of teams that could realistically acquire Giannis is limited. Green suggests that Giannis will provide the Bucks with a shortlist of clubs he would consider joining, and the organization will attempt to facilitate a trade that satisfies both parties.

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We all know that Giannis wants to compete at the highest level. A lot of people made a lot of noise about him deleting all Milwaukee Bucks references off of his Instagram account. If you're Giannis and you're trying to press the team to do something, those are the types of things that you would do in order to make the team realize, I'm not happy, I'm off y'all, it's going public now, y'all better figure it out. What I will say is it's not the easiest to trade someone that makes $50 million because in most cases you usually have to deplete your whole team just to even make the salaries work. It limits the amount of teams that, Gianis can go to. He'll have a list of clubs that he'd be comfortable going to, that he'll share with the team, and I think they'll try to make it happen. [FOREIGN LANGUAGE]