Milwaukee Bucks are not going to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo this season. Doc Rivers already emphasized. The Greek Freak is making fun of such rumors.
If that is still not enough, hear it from the NBA general managers and executives.
Insider Jake Fischer reported that team officials around the league are already feeling skeptical about landing the 2021 Finals MVP. One even said that there is no robust market for the two-way player.
“Yet I also hear rival teams wondering aloud if the Bucks have been so resistant until now to the mere idea of making Antetokounmpo available because they fear that his trade market wouldn’t be as robust as anticipated,” Fischer said via Stein Line.
Shams Charania previously reported that Antetokoumpo requested a trade at the start of the season. He published that report as the Bucks lose him to a calf injury at the start of the month and the team’s struggle became apparent.
Just in: Giannis Antetokounmpo and his agent Alex Saratsis have started conversations with the Milwaukee Bucks about the two-time NBA MVP’s future – and discussing whether his best fit is staying or elsewhere, sources tell ESPN. A resolution is expected in the coming weeks. pic.twitter.com/NfrpL2Ffvr
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 3, 2025
Bucks’ move will still be about Giannis Antetokounmpo
Antetokounmpo expressed satisfaction with his squad’s structure at the start of the season. Even went on to say that they got a deep roster and that they can be dangerous.
That’s not what’s happening right now and rumor mongers use their poor talent level to make it look like that Giannis wants out.
Fischer said the Bucks are doing everything to improve the roster, this season and beyond. Quoting another NBA team official, he said Milwaukee are going to do ‘big game hunting’.
“After repeatedly telling teams that Antetokounmpo is not available and that it is not interested in fielding trade offers for him, now Milwaukee is messaging that it wants to be buyers at this deadline to try to get Giannis more help,” Fischer said.
“Even with no clear return-from-injury timetable yet in place for Antetokounmpo, Jon Horst’s front office continues to hold onto hope that assembling a puncher’s chance contender remains viable in the wide-open Eastern Conference.
“One rival general manager I spoke to went so far as to say that the Bucks have convinced him that ‘they’re going big-game hunting.'”
The Bucks need to this soon before playoffs become unattainable. They are currently 10th in the Eastern Conference with an 11-16 record and suffered a disastrous defeat to one team that is supposed to be tanking.
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