May 13, 2025 • 11 mins
Giannis Antetokounmpo may be leaving Milwaukee after their playoff disappointment, despite the high hopes for his pairing with Damian Lillard. I break down my top seven landing spots for the Greek Freak, analyzing how each team could create a championship contender with him.
• Memphis Grizzlies could trade Ja Morant and pair Giannis with Desmond Bane, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Zach Edey
• New York Knicks would create an intriguing trio with Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Giannis
• Minnesota Timberwolves could form the "next Shaq and Kobe" with Anthony Edwards and Giannis together
• Golden State Warriors offer the perfect culture fit with Steph Curry's spacing benefiting Giannis tremendously
• Los Angeles Lakers could pair Giannis with potentially Luka Dončić to create the greatest international duo
• Atlanta Hawks would transform Trae Young and Giannis into a devastating pick-and-roll combo
• San Antonio Spurs ranked #1 with the Wembanyama-Giannis frontcourt potentially becoming the best international duo in NBA history
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up everybody?
It's your favorite show'sfavorite show.
Get a Bucket.
I'm your host, trey, and asusual, I hope you're all having
a wonderful, wonderful day Now.
Today we're going to talk aboutmy Giannis' trade wishlist, but
before we do that, please makesure to hit that like and
subscribe button, comment, tellanyone who's anyone about the
show, Try and get the ratings upa little bit.
You know, just a little bit.
But, like I said, today we'regoing to talk about my wish list
(00:21):
for where Giannis should go Endof day.
I don't know if y'all know this.
Bucks lost Badly, but I knowthere was context.
I got to provide context.
Dame did get injured.
That was supposed to be thedynamic duo, right, everybody
was raving about it.
I had my hesitations, andthere's video evidence, right,
(00:52):
I'm not just talking smoke, butthey, you know they didn't do
enough to to secure yannis and Ibelieve he is leaving.
Who going to milwaukee end ofday?
That's the question.
So I got a couple teams thatbuddy should be going to.
At least should want to keep inmind some of these teams that
you see can be up here.
Some of these teams might notbe talked about, no disrespect,
no disrespect.
But again, though we got acouple teams talk about.
(01:16):
So my wish list would be asfollows and I'll go in order,
right?
So we got here the Grizzlies,ladies and gentlemen, the
Memphis Grizzlies.
That, for me, would be a goodone, because we would actually
be able to trade Ja Morant,maybe even Gigi Jackson.
(01:38):
All right, cool, maybe a pickif you need to, but again, you
might not, because you might beable to sell Milwaukee on job.
And in the meantime, theGrizzlies, they get Giannis.
And now you got Desmond Bain,jaron Jackson Jr, zach Eadie
paired with Giannis.
Jaron Jackson Jr likes to stepout, right, zach Eadie?
(01:58):
He doesn't have to start, hecan be there to replace Giannis
or Jaron Jackson Jr.
So again, we do have some value, right there.
I would be curious to see theGrizzlies with Giannis.
But next I want to talk aboutnow Giannis going to the Knicks.
(02:19):
That's my sixth wishlist, right?
Because I do think JalenBrunson, carl Anthony Towns and
Giannis Antetokounmpo could bean interesting pairing On that
Grizzlies team I mentioned.
Giannis could still be the guy,and it works out On this Knicks
team.
He don't have to be Off talent,he can be.
But you got Jalen Brunson,who's been considered an MVP
(02:41):
caliber player right.
Carl Anthony Towns was in theMVP discussion at one point in
time too.
So again, you have a goodchance at winning a championship
.
I can't lie to you, if he wentto the Knicks, I think that trio
would be interesting, justdepending on who they are able
to keep, because again, I don'tknow who the Bucs would be able
(03:02):
to try to sell the fan base on.
That would be a littleinteresting.
But let's move on up to the nextteam right, number five for me
the Wolves.
Ladies and gentlemen, I kind ofwant to put this a little
higher.
Y'all see who on my shirt rightnow.
I got to say this.
I was tempted to put this alittle higher because they could
(03:23):
be the new age Shaq and Kobe.
That's some question marks.
So then we've heard Giannis becalled Superman, right, and we
see what Ant-Man is doing.
Could this be the?
Could this be the next realShaq and Kobe?
I know we tried to talk aboutAD and Braun at one point in
time.
They tried to give that, theytried to say Kareem and they
tried to say a lot of stuff.
This could be viewed more so asthe next Shaq and Kobe.
(03:47):
So again, I would like to seethat Wolves piece happen and I
maybe you can get rid of, maybeyou can trade Julius Randall or
go bear, I don't.
I think you might have to getrid of Randall, to be honest
with you.
They got a couple of picks too,I think, so maybe they can make
some things shake.
I got to double check that,though, but the Wolves would be
interested.
Let's move it on up, though, tothe Warriors at number four,
(04:10):
because that would be prettygood.
I'm not going to lie to you.
From a culture standpoint,ladies and gentlemen.
Giannis on the Warriors andpaired with Steph as a duo, keep
in mind, you got yes, you haveJimmy and you have Draymond.
I think at some point in time,draymond comes off the bench
(04:30):
we're talking about now.
Jimmy can coexist with Giannisand Steph.
Because of the spacing thatSteph Curry provides, because of
his skill set to shoot, you getthat equal balance.
And then, on the defensive end,jimmy, giannis, that's a force
(04:53):
right there.
So I would love to see theWarriors actually get that.
To be honest with you, thatwould be good.
That would be good for Giannispersonally.
Get you another championshipchamp, but let's go ahead and
move on off the Warriors, right?
Let's talk about the Lakers atnumber three.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am alaker fan, right, I'm not being
biased about this one either.
I do think this would beinteresting.
(05:13):
Um, I don't know how in theworld we make this happen.
For starters, maybe theybelieve in austin reeds, enough,
maybe.
And dalton connect too, if wekeep them, I guess.
But we got to see if we can getGiannis Cause again.
We do like the LA does, hostthe host the Olympics for 2028.
(05:35):
So I think that would be a goodlook for Giannis, and let's
also think about this too, right, if he does get paired with
Luka Doncic, we could.
We could very well, especiallyif they play together on the
Lakers for a couple of seasonslike five, six, right, and they
rattled off some championshipsget a lot of cachet.
We could talk about them as thegreatest international duo of
(05:56):
all time.
So again, I'm not biased when Isay this.
Y'all just may want to considerthe Lakers.
We could help out once we getour management situated.
Hopefully we shake that outsoon.
Enough about my soapbox, though.
Let's talk about my number twoteam, which surprised me just a
little bit, but I do want tolook at the Hawks, the Atlanta
(06:17):
Hawks.
Ladies and gentlemen, treyYoung and Giannis Antetokounmpo,
that combo does kind ofsurprise me as a good one for me
.
I think it forces Trey Young tobe better off ball and I think
it forces Giannis to be a pickand roll player as well as still
maintaining his level of playright.
Because now we got to starttalking about Giannis adapting
(06:40):
his game.
He's getting older, hisphysical style.
It might not be that long of acareer for Giannis if he keeps
trying to play this level ofplay right or this level of
style.
So, trey Young, giannis, wecould see a Steph Curry,
draymond Green situationPossibly.
(07:01):
I think that's doable.
And now we got depending on whoyou keep right, because you may
have to let go of someone likeZachary bc, but what if you
don't?
Now we might even have asituation where he could be
viewed as a michael porter jr onthe nuggets that third option
that could possibly sneak up tothe second option, because again
he was drafted first, eventhough everybody perceived that
(07:21):
was a weak draft class.
Still first right.
So there might be someexpectations.
So again I I would love to seeGiannis paired with Trey Young
in the Hawks, because they got acouple players on that team
that can make that thinginteresting.
I'm telling you that right now,dyson Daniels, jalen Johnson
Could be interesting, could beinteresting.
(07:41):
But, ladies and gentlemen, thatis my number two team and I got
to say my number one team iswithout question here to stay.
I think it beats everyoneacross the board.
It say my number one team iswithout question here to stay.
I think it beats everyoneacross the board.
It is the Spurs.
It is the Spurs, ladies andgentlemen.
Now I did mention that GiannisAntetokounmpo, his play style,
cannot last that long until weadd Victor Wimbinyama to the
(08:03):
fold, because Victor Wimbinyamaallows Giannis to attack.
The big has to come out topaint A power forward.
Whoever had that depth chartfor the power forward spot is
going to have to guard Yama'sante de kumba, because Victor
Wimby and Yama can go to fiveLike that's going to be kind of
tough.
So again, when I'm thinkingabout Yama's I didn't even
(08:26):
mention Darien Fox yet and keepin mind too, this might be the
most realistic one, because theyactually have pieces that they
can trade to sell to Milwaukee.
Like y'all saw, stephon Castleis a really good player.
I think he'll be fine goinginto the future.
How good of a player, like NBAstar.
I'm not saying he's going toreplace Giannis, so you've got
(08:46):
to add a couple picks, a coupleplayers, too, to work with.
Again, you might even throw inthe Devin Vassell, mckeldin,
johnson.
These are pieces that again,you can build with if you're
Milwaukee.
But Giannis and Victor, wimbyand Yama I know I mentioned Luka
(09:07):
and Giannis as potentially thebest international duo these
boys would be the bestinternational duo, without
question.
Hands down, are you with yourmama?
I promise you, giannis Wimby, Imade reference that once Wimby
(09:27):
strengthens up the way Giannisdoes or did, watch out, and I'm
expecting that around year four,year five.
It usually takes big five yearsto develop, ladies and
gentlemen.
We're at like what?
Year?
Year two, so we got some time.
But if he's around, giannis,that could actually like that.
That timetable keep in mind too.
It's not like Victor Wimbinyamais a slouch in the NBA, but he
(09:51):
can hoop.
It was just because of hisinjury that derailed him from
winning deep boy.
He was all star like come onnow, man, like that's going to
be crazy.
Health will be the only reasonwhy they would not be the
greatest international duo inNBA history, I promise you.
But again, though, ladies andgentlemen, this is my listing
(10:13):
for Giannis in terms of mywishlist, because, again, all of
these teams could actually usehim and be vaulted up as
contenders every single last oneof them, and I genuinely
believe that.
But I mean, maybe I missed outon a team, or maybe the teams
(10:33):
that I listed off weren'thitting for you.
I I would love to hear y'allfeedback, definitely want to
hear where y'all think Giannisshould go, but I mean that does
about conclude the end of theepisode, ladies and gentlemen.
So I greatly appreciate you allfor listening.
Let's follow and see whereGiannis goes, right, but for now
(10:54):
, that's the end, so please makesure to like subscribe, comment
, tell anyone who's anyone aboutthe show.
My name is Trey.
I'm the host of Get a Bucket.
Hope you all are having a goodone.
Take care.
What's up everybody?
It's your favorite show'sfavorite show.
Get a Bucket.
I'm your host, trey, and asusual, I hope you're all having
a wonderful, wonderful day Now.
Today we're going to talk aboutmy Giannis' trade wishlist, but
before we do that, please makesure to hit that like and
subscribe button, comment, tellanyone who's anyone about the
show, Try and get the ratings upa little bit.
You know, just a little bit.
But, like I said, today we'regoing to talk about my wish list
(00:21):
for where Giannis should go Endof day.
I don't know if y'all know this.
Bucks lost Badly, but I knowthere was context.
I got to provide context.
Dame did get injured.
That was supposed to be thedynamic duo, right, everybody
was raving about it.
I had my hesitations, andthere's video evidence, right,
(00:52):
I'm not just talking smoke, butthey, you know they didn't do
enough to to secure yannis and Ibelieve he is leaving.
Who going to milwaukee end ofday?
That's the question.
So I got a couple teams thatbuddy should be going to.
At least should want to keep inmind some of these teams that
you see can be up here.
Some of these teams might notbe talked about, no disrespect,
no disrespect.
But again, though we got acouple teams talk about.
(01:16):
So my wish list would be asfollows and I'll go in order,
right?
So we got here the Grizzlies,ladies and gentlemen, the
Memphis Grizzlies.
That, for me, would be a goodone, because we would actually
be able to trade Ja Morant,maybe even Gigi Jackson.
(01:38):
All right, cool, maybe a pickif you need to, but again, you
might not, because you might beable to sell Milwaukee on job.
And in the meantime, theGrizzlies, they get Giannis.
And now you got Desmond Bain,jaron Jackson Jr, zach Eadie
paired with Giannis.
Jaron Jackson Jr likes to stepout, right, zach Eadie?
(01:58):
He doesn't have to start, hecan be there to replace Giannis
or Jaron Jackson Jr.
So again, we do have some value, right there.
I would be curious to see theGrizzlies with Giannis.
But next I want to talk aboutnow Giannis going to the Knicks.
(02:19):
That's my sixth wishlist, right?
Because I do think JalenBrunson, carl Anthony Towns and
Giannis Antetokounmpo could bean interesting pairing On that
Grizzlies team I mentioned.
Giannis could still be the guy,and it works out On this Knicks
team.
He don't have to be Off talent,he can be.
But you got Jalen Brunson,who's been considered an MVP
(02:41):
caliber player right.
Carl Anthony Towns was in theMVP discussion at one point in
time too.
So again, you have a goodchance at winning a championship
.
I can't lie to you, if he wentto the Knicks, I think that trio
would be interesting, justdepending on who they are able
to keep, because again, I don'tknow who the Bucs would be able
(03:02):
to try to sell the fan base on.
That would be a littleinteresting.
But let's move on up to the nextteam right, number five for me
the Wolves.
Ladies and gentlemen, I kind ofwant to put this a little
higher.
Y'all see who on my shirt rightnow.
I got to say this.
I was tempted to put this alittle higher because they could
(03:23):
be the new age Shaq and Kobe.
That's some question marks.
So then we've heard Giannis becalled Superman, right, and we
see what Ant-Man is doing.
Could this be the?
Could this be the next realShaq and Kobe?
I know we tried to talk aboutAD and Braun at one point in
time.
They tried to give that, theytried to say Kareem and they
tried to say a lot of stuff.
This could be viewed more so asthe next Shaq and Kobe.
(03:47):
So again, I would like to seethat Wolves piece happen and I
maybe you can get rid of, maybeyou can trade Julius Randall or
go bear, I don't.
I think you might have to getrid of Randall, to be honest
with you.
They got a couple of picks too,I think, so maybe they can make
some things shake.
I got to double check that,though, but the Wolves would be
interested.
Let's move it on up, though, tothe Warriors at number four,
(04:10):
because that would be prettygood.
I'm not going to lie to you.
From a culture standpoint,ladies and gentlemen.
Giannis on the Warriors andpaired with Steph as a duo, keep
in mind, you got yes, you haveJimmy and you have Draymond.
I think at some point in time,draymond comes off the bench
(04:30):
we're talking about now.
Jimmy can coexist with Giannisand Steph.
Because of the spacing thatSteph Curry provides, because of
his skill set to shoot, you getthat equal balance.
And then, on the defensive end,jimmy, giannis, that's a force
(04:53):
right there.
So I would love to see theWarriors actually get that.
To be honest with you, thatwould be good.
That would be good for Giannispersonally.
Get you another championshipchamp, but let's go ahead and
move on off the Warriors, right?
Let's talk about the Lakers atnumber three.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am alaker fan, right, I'm not being
biased about this one either.
I do think this would beinteresting.
(05:13):
Um, I don't know how in theworld we make this happen.
For starters, maybe theybelieve in austin reeds, enough,
maybe.
And dalton connect too, if wekeep them, I guess.
But we got to see if we can getGiannis Cause again.
We do like the LA does, hostthe host the Olympics for 2028.
(05:35):
So I think that would be a goodlook for Giannis, and let's
also think about this too, right, if he does get paired with
Luka Doncic, we could.
We could very well, especiallyif they play together on the
Lakers for a couple of seasonslike five, six, right, and they
rattled off some championshipsget a lot of cachet.
We could talk about them as thegreatest international duo of
(05:56):
all time.
So again, I'm not biased when Isay this.
Y'all just may want to considerthe Lakers.
We could help out once we getour management situated.
Hopefully we shake that outsoon.
Enough about my soapbox, though.
Let's talk about my number twoteam, which surprised me just a
little bit, but I do want tolook at the Hawks, the Atlanta
(06:17):
Hawks.
Ladies and gentlemen, treyYoung and Giannis Antetokounmpo,
that combo does kind ofsurprise me as a good one for me
.
I think it forces Trey Young tobe better off ball and I think
it forces Giannis to be a pickand roll player as well as still
maintaining his level of playright.
Because now we got to starttalking about Giannis adapting
(06:40):
his game.
He's getting older, hisphysical style.
It might not be that long of acareer for Giannis if he keeps
trying to play this level ofplay right or this level of
style.
So, trey Young, giannis, wecould see a Steph Curry,
draymond Green situationPossibly.
(07:01):
I think that's doable.
And now we got depending on whoyou keep right, because you may
have to let go of someone likeZachary bc, but what if you
don't?
Now we might even have asituation where he could be
viewed as a michael porter jr onthe nuggets that third option
that could possibly sneak up tothe second option, because again
he was drafted first, eventhough everybody perceived that
(07:21):
was a weak draft class.
Still first right.
So there might be someexpectations.
So again I I would love to seeGiannis paired with Trey Young
in the Hawks, because they got acouple players on that team
that can make that thinginteresting.
I'm telling you that right now,dyson Daniels, jalen Johnson
Could be interesting, could beinteresting.
(07:41):
But, ladies and gentlemen, thatis my number two team and I got
to say my number one team iswithout question here to stay.
I think it beats everyoneacross the board.
It say my number one team iswithout question here to stay.
I think it beats everyoneacross the board.
It is the Spurs.
It is the Spurs, ladies andgentlemen.
Now I did mention that GiannisAntetokounmpo, his play style,
cannot last that long until weadd Victor Wimbinyama to the
(08:03):
fold, because Victor Wimbinyamaallows Giannis to attack.
The big has to come out topaint A power forward.
Whoever had that depth chartfor the power forward spot is
going to have to guard Yama'sante de kumba, because Victor
Wimby and Yama can go to fiveLike that's going to be kind of
tough.
So again, when I'm thinkingabout Yama's I didn't even
(08:26):
mention Darien Fox yet and keepin mind too, this might be the
most realistic one, because theyactually have pieces that they
can trade to sell to Milwaukee.
Like y'all saw, stephon Castleis a really good player.
I think he'll be fine goinginto the future.
How good of a player, like NBAstar.
I'm not saying he's going toreplace Giannis, so you've got
(08:46):
to add a couple picks, a coupleplayers, too, to work with.
Again, you might even throw inthe Devin Vassell, mckeldin,
johnson.
These are pieces that again,you can build with if you're
Milwaukee.
But Giannis and Victor, wimbyand Yama I know I mentioned Luka
(09:07):
and Giannis as potentially thebest international duo these
boys would be the bestinternational duo, without
question.
Hands down, are you with yourmama?
I promise you, giannis Wimby, Imade reference that once Wimby
(09:27):
strengthens up the way Giannisdoes or did, watch out, and I'm
expecting that around year four,year five.
It usually takes big five yearsto develop, ladies and
gentlemen.
We're at like what?
Year?
Year two, so we got some time.
But if he's around, giannis,that could actually like that.
That timetable keep in mind too.
It's not like Victor Wimbinyamais a slouch in the NBA, but he
(09:51):
can hoop.
It was just because of hisinjury that derailed him from
winning deep boy.
He was all star like come onnow, man, like that's going to
be crazy.
Health will be the only reasonwhy they would not be the
greatest international duo inNBA history, I promise you.
But again, though, ladies andgentlemen, this is my listing
(10:13):
for Giannis in terms of mywishlist, because, again, all of
these teams could actually usehim and be vaulted up as
contenders every single last oneof them, and I genuinely
believe that.
But I mean, maybe I missed outon a team, or maybe the teams
(10:33):
that I listed off weren'thitting for you.
I I would love to hear y'allfeedback, definitely want to
hear where y'all think Giannisshould go, but I mean that does
about conclude the end of theepisode, ladies and gentlemen.
So I greatly appreciate you allfor listening.
Let's follow and see whereGiannis goes, right, but for now
(10:54):
, that's the end, so please makesure to like subscribe, comment
, tell anyone who's anyone aboutthe show.
My name is Trey.
I'm the host of Get a Bucket.
Hope you all are having a goodone.
Take care.
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