{"id":57939,"date":"2025-05-02T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=57939"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:07:32","slug":"bulls-trade-pitch-lands-228-million-former-all-star-amid-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=57939","title":{"rendered":"Bulls Trade Pitch Lands $228 Million Former All-Star Amid Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2196666067-e1746130876243.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2196666067-e1746130876243.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2196666067-e1746130876243.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2196666067-e1746130876243.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Bulls Trade Pitch Lands $228 Million Former All-Star Amid Uncertainty\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Billy Donovan and the Chicago Bulls would land two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo in this Heavy Sports trade proposal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chicago Bulls have resisted the slow build that typical rebuilds require for years, and the only way to win in the NBA is with stars. Those two factors come together to form the impetus for a new trade proposal that would see the Bulls land Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n<p>Antetkounmpo\u2019s future is again in question following an early playoff exit from his Milwaukee Bucks against the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>This Heavy Sports trade proposal aims to land Antetokounmpo in line with a recent suggestion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bulls get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bucks get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coby White<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Huerter<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Williams<\/li>\n<li>2025 first-round pick<\/li>\n<li>2026 first-round pick (lottery protected via POR)<\/li>\n<li>2027 first-round pick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NBC Sports\u2019 Logan Reardon listed Josh Giddey and Matas Buzelis as potential trade assets for the Bulls to land Antetokounmpo in an article on April 30. Giddey is a restricted free agent, though, and Buzelis just finished an uneven rookie season, making their value difficult to gauge.<\/p>\n<p>Sending Williams offloads the remaining four years of his five-year, $90 million contract. Moving White avoids having to pay him another extension.<\/p>\n<p>Huerter\u2019s inclusion in the proposed trade is as salary-matching fodder on the Bulls\u2019 end.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s Bulls Comments Resurface After Bucks\u2019 Elimination<\/h2>\n<p>Antetokounmpo just finished a would-be five-year, $228.2 million contract in four years, with a three-year, $173 million extension taking its place starting in 2025-26. He has flirted with the idea of playing for the Bulls before, and those remarks have started to turn heads again.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, though, he reaffirmed his allegiance to the Bucks in response to a direct question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think anybody you asked that question \u2013 that plays basketball \u2013 if he said no, he would be a liar. It\u2019s a team that won the multiple championships. It\u2019s a team that one of the greatest players, if not the greatest player, to ever play this game, played for. So it\u2019s a no-brainer. Everybody would love to play for Chicago,\u201d Antetokounmpo told reporters in August 2022. \u201cDown the line, you never know. We never know how life brings it. Maybe I play for Chicago. But for now,\u00a0 I am committed to Milwaukee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He left the door open for a potential exit after getting bounced from the playoffs. He said he could not offer the same level of commitment to the Bucks as in previous years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"f7c4abafed31162a98bbc3836df426ed\">\n<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI think the time has ended in Milwaukee here with [Giannis Antetokounmpo] on this roster.\u201d \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>@BobbyMarks42 breaks down potential roster issues for the Bucks leading into the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Milwaukee\u2019s playoff exit is compounded by the fact that Damian Lillard is expected to miss most if not all of the 2025-26 regular season after tearing his Achilles during the postseason. The Bucks also lack the assets to acquire further roster upgrades.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Bulls a Longshot for Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade<\/h2>\n<p>If that package seems light for a player of Antetokounmpo\u2019s ilk, Reardon certainly agreed that the Bulls would likely be a long shot landing spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother big-market team that has long been linked to Antetokounmpo but probably doesn\u2019t have the pieces to make a trade happen,\u201d Reardon wrote. \u201cSome of the Bulls\u2019 young players took steps forward this season, but the lack of picks makes this less intriguing \u2014 unless, of course, Chicago has some lottery luck this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Art\u016bras Karni\u0161ovas has also asked for \u201cpatience\u201d from fans this offseason. That was a notable departure from his previous messaging about seeking roster upgrades.<\/p>\n<div id=\"598ccd5b98d38bdea07455e02c20fd2a\">\n<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Art\u016bras Karni\u0161ovas on asking fans for patience:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking fans for patience because we\u2019re in first year of that transition. I thought that the way we finished the year shows some promise\u2026 To finish 15-5 isn\u2019t a victory lap, but I think there are some positives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>All of that is before even considering the bidding war that would take place if Antetokounmpo were made available.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, it might take an outright request for the Bulls to be serious suitors for the star.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Buckhalter covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. He has covered both leagues since 2016, including bylines at FanSided, Last Word on Sports and Clocker Sports. He&#8217;s based in Villa Park, Illinois. Follow Josh on Twitter and Instagram: @JoshGBuck More about Josh Buckhalter<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bulls could try to cash in on former MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s previous comments with a blockbuster offseason trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bulls Trade Pitch Lands $228 Million Former All-Star Amid Uncertainty - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=57939\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulls Trade Pitch Lands $228 Million Former All-Star Amid Uncertainty - 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