Milwaukee Bucks are 1-3. A terrifying agenda awaits them over the next 10 days. And that fleeting concept of hope: what is too fast panic at one of these younger season, has no compatibility with the growing confidence in the NBA that Milwaukee’s big-name player, if things get ugly enough, can become something to be had.
There’s already a lot to worry about if you’re a Dollars fan, even more than you’ll see in their chaotic games so far.
Record Rivers, installed in the activity since January, now has a 20-26 record as its leader, including the playoffs. Khris Middleton rests sidelined for a surprise. The team’s defense has been poor since the peak season, even under the record. They have already lost this season to the Chicago Bulls and Brooklyn Nets, rarely seen heavyweights of the Japanese Convention.
All of this is capable of bringing precisely the biggest fears of the Dollars group to the park: Giannis Antetokounmpo wearing the jersey of any other team.
“Teams are circling and hopeful,” a Western Conference team executive said.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened before the trade deadline,” said a senior workforce executive who could be in the mix.
An NBA government from the Japanese Convention has already heard the parks that are believed to be the most popular places for Giannis: “The teams I have heard are Miami and New York, the Nets, not the Knicks.”
There are also alternative groups with how, in concept, to proceed after a participant of Giannis’ caliber. The Oklahoma Town Thunder definitely comes to mind, and I asked the Japanese Convention government about the possibility of the Thunder creating a run if Milwaukee’s obese finally wanted out.
“I haven’t heard them mentioned, but yeah, if you’re from Milwaukee you could just say, ‘I don’t give a damn what you want. If you want out, we’ll get the best deal we have.'” can.’ And Oklahoma City could definitely offer a good option.”
And sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s early. It’s only November. But not so early that some opposing teams are paying attention to Milwaukee’s struggles with the rest instead of rejoicing.
There’s also another backstory brewing in Milwaukee that could push Giannis toward progress. Many people in the NBA have heard that Rivers, known for his internal political maneuvering, has already gained enough on the owner that he is now the key player in basketball decisions.
“They tell me it’s up to Doc now, that they’re going to wait 20 games and then see what Doc wants,” said a regular in the inner workings of the Dollars’ front office. “It seems to be a disaster.”
As for Giannis’ industry, he himself added fuel to this fire a few weeks ago when, speaking with Sam Amick of The Athletic, he alluded to the theory of being traded if things go wrong this season.
“If we don’t win this year, would you be fired?” The big Dollars name requested a staff member, Amick reports. “Do you have it in the back of your mind, like, ‘(What) if this year doesn’t go well?’ Yes, if we don’t win a championship, they might trade me. Yes, this is the job we live in. This is the world we live in.”
All of this drama, on and probably off the court, may simply completely favor groups that have been ready to make a run at Giannis for years. He is a former MVP and one of the top three players in the NBA. If you ever upload “discontent” to the log, the problems may temporarily go away.
Giannis’ victory in the 2021 NBA Championship put paid to some of those daydreams. The same was true for the three-year, $186 million word of honor extension he signed a year ago.
That’s why even those struggles early in the season (and therefore can become very pronounced in the next two weeks) have the potential to have profound consequences. They may restore what is imaginable for groups that covet or have assets for the industry of a true celebrity.
The Dollars play the Grizzlies on Thursday night, and if Ja Morant is healthy, they could easily get up on Friday at 1-4. So far, their only slim win came against a Sixers team without Joel Embiid and Paul George. The next five games after Memphis continue: Cavs, Cavs, Jazz, Knicks, Celtics.
A Document Rivers Skeptic They might be prone to equate their optics and film, on November 11, a $2 to $8 workforce.
That would be brutal for a group of Dollars reeling after their big, bold bet went wrong last season. For Damian Lillard, the industry was no longer the path that many expected to take us to the next level. Jrue Relief’s progress in that trade didn’t simply undermine protection and undermine the kind of winner’s alchemy and crunch-time dependability that this workforce now lacks: it ended up bolstering and serving to build the Celtics’ still-rising juggernaut. .
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And coming soon is Rivers.
He failed in the face of Los Angeles’ immense ability with the Clippers and those players, like their teacher, eventually scattered elsewhere. He was in Philadelphia and that team also grew lower, and he saw many of its pieces advance or transform jokes: James Harden coming and going, Ben Simmons and Tobias Harris traveling to other teams and passing high levels. price capacity for cautionary tales.
Does Rivers assume any duties? Sure. Have you ever shown an ounce of willingness to accept it? The historical past turns out to indicate, ah, disagree. If you’re Giannis, with your 30th birthday around the corner and the league looking more and more discouraging each season, do you trust Document Rivers to fix this submission and safeguard your legacy?
We’ve all noticed that when Rivers’ teams fall apart, they usually tend to stay that way. In the global world of Document, clutter can also be contagious. Fear can transform the norm. And players often want something, or, looking at it again, wish they had looked hard enough.
For the Dollars, this combination in Milwaukee is not splendid in a league that does not promise anything ruthless if a celebrity wakes up one morning and needs to be somewhere else.
As their head teacher they have a political candidate who poses as a teacher, whose advice has long since lost its luster. Lillard is not, but he has the compatibility with Giannis that we anticipated. Protection remains perverse. The offense has stalled. The intensity is negligible, the team’s third big name hurts, once again, and the vibes become unfortunate. They seem as far from a championship-level team as you’d have to believe given where they thought they’d be a year ago a year ago.
The first days? Too fast? Is there nothing to look at here?
That’s what groups that have been and should have been always say, right before their star announces those three brutal words: “I want out.”
