Stupid decision by a terrible organization lol. No one else in the league would give nearly that type of commitment to Trae Young.
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Stupid decision by a terrible organization lol. No one else in the league would give nearly that type of commitment to Trae Young.
Doesn’t seem worth it for the heat.
Not a bad haul. The picks are best part although I do like Jaquez. I’m sure the Bucks will shop Herro hard for another pick.
So they gave up everything. Now what? Tell me how the heat get better around a Bam/Giannis team
Not sure what their cap is, but they'll go after some free agents.
I thought with the Wolves moves the last couple days they may have been a player for Giannis.
Miami’s cap is destroyed, at least for the foreseeable future. They’re hard-capped in the first apron meaning they have $18M for 4 roster spots. That’s not going to get you anything. Plus they’ll need to extend Giannis.
This is one of those trades stupid NBA GMs make all the time, albeit increasingly less. You trade for the name & aging player, get the headlines, but don’t materially improve your team and actually kill your long-term prospects.
Bucks can start a rebuild now. They now have a big trade exception and cap space to take on expirings and/or bad contracts and get more draft capital for the future.
I really thought the Celtics would have been a better fit for Giannis. Maybe they didn't want to give up Jaylen Brown.
I feel like Miami had to do something though. That group had play-in tournament level written all over them for the foreseeable future. Make the big splash, see if you can get something to click and take a shot. Maybe it all burns down, but Riley wasn’t going to see his final years in the front office be treading water.
I think the Bucks wanted to go younger and start a rebuild rather than try to put pieces around Brown. I know he did well this year without Tatum, but he just never seemed like the type of player you’d want to build a team around.
2026 NBA mock draft: Projecting all 60 picks in Rounds 1 and 2
We have an updated 60-pick mock draft with new intel ahead of Round 1 of the 2026 NBA draft (Tuesday, 8 p.m. ET on ESPN/ABC).
ESPN's latest mock has Jefferson going late first round (#28) to Nets.
Would love to see him go in the first round but Nets are a pretty woeful franchise.
Miami is pretty good at finding UFA worthy of court time.
Guess they’ll have to be now.
My philosophy would be not to make a swing like this unless you have a team ready to compete for a championship with one big piece. Giannis to Boston absolutely made sense because you’d still have Tatum and Derrick White. Plus Pritchard (if he wasn’t in the trade) and some young bigs.
Miami was 8th-10th in the East. Just lost their best guard in the trade, all their cap space, and all their future draft picks to get to .. what 4th maybe 5th? They just torpedoed their future for a 2nd round exit ceiling.
You see these trades a lot too. Dame to Milwaukee, Durant to Houston, Paul George to the Clippers. Westbrook to Lakers, pretty much any of the teams that traded for Harden or Butler the last 5 years. They very rarely work out.
I too thought big hauls for max contract players who might be on downward side was a thing of past like in Durant deal last year which I think was only 1 1st rounder. I agree this is a solid trade for the Bucks.
Ironically I think next year if I'm not mistaken the play-ins get best odds to win the draft lottery so if you're not going to win big might as well be meciocre for another year. Pat as you said isn't a guy that won't try his hardest to win which is rare for some of the front offices these days but he overspent.
I was hoping the blazers would be involved somehow since they own a lot of the bucks picks
