Warriors trade proposal gets Giannis Antetokounmpo in blockbuster for Draymond Green, 6 other assets

Billy Heyen

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Of all the Giannis Antetokounmpo possible trade partners, the Golden State Warriors are a bit more of a long shot to really line up on a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks.

But nothing is impossible, and the idea of Giannis playing with Steph Curry is so tantalizing, prognosticators can't help but embrace this possibility anyway.

ESPN laid out five possible destinations for Antetokounmpo in a new article on Thursday, a day after reports indicated he has begun to talk with Milwaukee's front office about his future.

This is how the trade would look from Milwaukee to Golden State in the ESPN projection:

  • Warriors get
    • Giannis Antetokounmpo
    • Thanasis Antetokounmpo
  • Bucks get
    • Draymond Green
    • Jonathan Kuminga
    • Buddy Hield
    • 2026 first-round pick
    • 2028 first-round pick
    • 2030 first-round pick (if 1 through 20)
    • 2032 first-round pick

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"This would be a Hail Mary trade for both teams," writes ESPN's Zach Kram.

Kuminga would really be the key to this deal, in addition to the picks. If he can still develop into a star, that'd give this a chance of working out not terribly for Milwaukee.

Green and Hield are there in large part for salary matching. Would Golden State give him up? That's tougher to say. The Bucks would potentially try to move the veterans on to a third team sooner rather than later, too.

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"For the Warriors, a blockbuster trade would represent an attempt to break out of the funk that has plagued them this season," Kram writes. "Adding Antetokounmpo would be a supercharged version of last season's trade for Jimmy Butler and create a championship-caliber core, potentially with enough depth behind that star trio to scare the Thunder and the West's best teams."

Just for the Giannis and Steph combination possibility, this is fun to think about.

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