Our Spurs should trade the farm for Giannis!

[TD 21]

Yeah, Rockets have the right combo of young player(s)+ draft capital. Nets lack the former. That and the opportunity to send him out West along with him and Hakeem sharing the Nigerian heritage..It's all nicely is lining up for Houston to go hard after him this offseason once this Warriors series exposes their total lack of a franchise, go-to guy..

Exactly.

Maybe I'm off my rocker, but I don't think the Spurs should or will pursue him to the fullest extent or that he'd want to come here.

He's 30 and plays a style where his decline, which has begun (still a top 3-4 player), should be more precipitous and steeper than the average MVP caliber player and since he can't space the floor and is too great to settle for being a rim running vertical spacer, he has to remain the offensive centerpiece.

Wembanyama is obviously too great a talent to reduce to merely being a souped up version of Lopez and though they're both skilled enough to work either end of the p-n-r some, neither is a primary ball handler.

I see him wanting a situation where he can maintain being the clear cut best player, not contribute to furthering the "legacy" of a fellow big with the potential to usurp him in the GOAT ranking.

[Sugus]

Hard pass on Giannis this summer.

The Spurs' current overall roster is nowhere near the kind of depth and roundness that would justify such a costly move; and they don't have the luxury of existing in LA or Miami to benefit from the "oh we'll just flesh out the roster with FAs and ring-chasing roleplayers" pull like the big markets.

Milwaukee will and should be asking for a king's ransom to move Giannis, and we would be fools to pay that toll. Leave that to some other desperate, short-sighted team.

Besides, the spacing with a Fox-Castle-?-Giannis-Wemby is unplayable anyways. It ain't 1999 anymore.

[Guru of Nothing]

Castle is my favorite Spur, but yeah, he's 100% gone if we get Giannis. If I'm Milwaukee there is no deal without Castle involved, none. This is going to suck for Buck fans, but there is a sliver of a silver lining getting back the rookie of the year, AND they can point to SGA from the Clippers deal and place some cope there too.

And no way does Houston not blow our offer away.

[rankingtear]

Should just build a team around Wemby this super team thing is for big markets.

[ixiXSolidXixi]

Giannis is Top 3 and trading him to Houston for a bunch of picks plus probably Green, Whitmore and Sheppard is going to close that window super quick. Hopefully they do it. In my opinion the player I like is Jaren Jackson Jr.

[rankingtear]

If he goes BKN this would kill the possibility of Naz or Cam on our team.

[Atl Spur]

Depending on how our lotto picks fall; it will determine our buying power & leverage. We don’t need anymore young inexperienced players, get Giannis ( top 5 player / nba champ ) for the next three years at a decent price when you subtract our outgoing contracts in my proposal. We will only have him and Wemby on expensive contracts in year three. Gobert, Hartenstein, and Allen are non three point shooters that start for some of the leagues best teams; none are near as good as freak! So a fox, castle, Barnes , freak, alien would be sick!

[Atl Spur]

….and fox��

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Guess I owe OP a bit of an apology. I didn't figure this was possible.

That said, it isn't realistic, IMHO. I don't think the Spurs can trade for him without giving up an asset we don't want to part with.

[Atl Spur]

Damn Rudy……

[bigzak25]

I’ve been accused of the opposite, but never this.

Maybe I just don't know the true Ex. I bet you're a pretty stand up dude.

[bigzak25]

Some of you need to familiarize yourselves with contracts & outstanding money. Dev+keldon+ Sochan this years two lottery picks + 2 future 1st is a nice enough package I’m thinking.

Is steep, but worth it imo. Would like to keep Sochan though...

[bigzak25]

Guess I owe OP a bit of an apology. I didn't figure this was possible.

That said, it isn't realistic, IMHO. I don't think the Spurs can trade for him without giving up an asset we don't want to part with.

All good bro. Yeah man, it's a discussion board so people are gonna have different opinions. That's what makes this fun and interesting. My posts are not gospel. Just what I'm thinking. And I like to think big. In it to win Championships after all.

[rankingtear]

Can't imagine any package working for MIL unless it involves their picks back.

[exstatic]

Can't imagine any package working for MIL unless it involves their picks back.

Houston’s package of the Suns picks will be pretty good. Milwaukee’s picks seem kind of scattered to the winds, traded elsewhere or swaps tangled with three or more teams.

[cutewizard]

Let's admit it

Wemby and Giannis is tantalizing

[cutewizard]

[cutewizard]

[scott]

My top secret inside sources tell me that Giannis is all but a done deal. Giannis has had a strong interest in coming to San Antonio but has beef with Popovich because Pop once said Greek Wine is (which it probably is, I can’t confirm).

Giannis is willing to publicly state he will only go to San Antonio to put pressure on MIL, but Pop stepping down at HC was a pre-requisite because of their long standing feud.

My inside source tells me it’s a package centered around Sochan, Branham and some SRPs for Giannis.

[Mal]

My top secret inside sources tell me that Giannis is all but a done deal. Giannis has had a strong interest in coming to San Antonio but has beef with Popovich because Pop once said Greek Wine is (which it probably is, I can’t confirm).

Giannis is willing to publicly state he will only go to San Antonio to put pressure on MIL, but Pop stepping down at HC was a pre-requisite because of their long standing feud.

My inside source tells me it’s a package centered around Sochan, Branham and some SRPs for Giannis.

Also Spurs did not hire coach Bud

[scott]

Also Spurs did not hire coach Bud

My source says the deal is off with the hiring to Mitch. Giannis saw that and said “ it, I’d rather be stuck with Doc”

[Mal]

My source says the deal is off with the hiring to Mitch. Giannis saw that and said “ it, I’d rather be stuck with Doc”

Well , I thought they talked to Giannis about Bud, and that's why Bud wasnt hired.

[r0drig0lac]

Imagine having the possibility of getting Giannis and then having fans complain about losing Castle

unbelievable

[T Park]

The Spurs don't have enough to give up for him. Like Ambchang said, unless he demands to come to SA, and SA only, no chance of getting him without giving up Castle and a horde of draft picks which I don't think I'd want to deplete all the draft assets. Not sure about what other people here think about giving up tons of draft picks for him.

Giving up lottery tickets for a top 3 player in the league?


Uh yes, this is why you build up the assets, to acquire someone like him.


It’s a no brainer. You do whatever you can. Only untouchables are Wemby castle

[Thomas82]

Then there's no point discussing it because there's no world where they would trade him here with Castle being part of the deal.

We would probably have to get a 3rd team involved for the type of package they would want.