Milwaukee Bucks Have ‘No Indication’ Giannis Antetokounmpo Will Request Trade
The Milwaukee Bucks have “no indication” that NBA superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo will request a trade.
Antetokounmpo has spent his entire career with the Bucks.
“We have no indication that anything is really changing as far as our relationship with the player we think is the best in the world,” a Bucks front office executive told NBA reporter Keith Smith of Spotrac. “We rebuilt on the fly, in a really challenging situation, but we think we did it as well as it could be done.”
Antetokounmpo and the Bucks won the 2021 championship against the Phoenix Suns in six games. Since then, Milwaukee has won only one postseason series.
The Bucks lost to the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2025 playoffs in five games. Milwaukee also lost to Indiana in the first round of the 2024 playoffs in six games.
Bucks general manager Jon Horst has been very busy this offseason. He waived and stretched Damian Lillard, signed Myles Turner and Gary Harris and re-signed Bobby Portis, Kevin Porter Jr., Gary Trent Jr., Taurean Prince and Jericho Sims.
One of the top players in NBA history, Antetokounmpo will make $54.1 million next season. The Bucks signed the future Hall of Famer to a three-year, $175 million extension in October 2023. There is no no-trade clause in the contract.
Antetokounmpo is a two-time MVP, a one-time Finals MVP, a one-time Defensive Player of the Year and a nine-time All-Star. He has career averages of 23.9 points, 9.9 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.2 blocks with the Bucks.
The 30-year-old Antetokounmpo has said many times that he wants to spend his entire career with Milwaukee. NBA writer Dan Favale of Bleacher Report, though, thinks The Greek Freak could request a trade one day.
“Their summer has unfolded like a team trying to buy one more full year with Giannis Antetokounmpo, before trying to parlay the three available first-round picks they’ll have to trade next June into someone who buys them yet another season or two,” Favale wrote. “If that plan proves unsuccessful, or if Milwaukee stumbles through the first part of the 2025-26 campaign, it could be the tipping point that nudges the two-time MVP to do what 29 other teams have been waiting on him to do for years.”
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