Maybe DLo or Austin Reaves or or Rui Hachimura future draft picks might be the best that they can offer if they wanted to pursue either of the players. However, this era has started to be another superstars joining another team to make a super team.

However, it's been like the Heat with Lebron and Dwade and Bosh and then we have KD joining the already loaded team in Warriors back them to win a back to back ring. Giannis though said in the past that he doesn't want to join to form a super team, if I'm not mistaken.

I don't know if you can consider the Bucks as super team, it is still Giannis only, and then we have Lillard, but he has been very inconsistent as well and then Middleton, his game has gone down since Lillard join the team as they are almost in the exact position. And I do agree that if they had a bad season again, they could break up and Giannis seeking another great team to win another ring.

Or perhaps there are a lot of good players in the league today as compare to different era's. Although if you look at MJ's era, there are a lot of super teams as well, it's that they are in the wrong era as MJ took over the 90's.

I didn’t see this coming. Woj has announced his retirement. The guy who breaks every story in the NBA is hanging up his spurs. Another blow for the NBA it seems. With the TNT crew on their last season and no more Woj, the NBA is going to look a lot different in the near future. Read his statement here: https://x.com/wojespn/status/1836414909829034140

^ Just plain bad for the NBA rumor mill. This thread will just have to start doing a better job at breaking and distributing news to the masses now that our main source of breaking news in the NBA is no longer doing it. The only real winner in this situation (besides Woj) is Shams, who is now the undisputed King of NBA rumors.

I agree, he's better to stay with the Miami Heat. It's a good team and is the kryptonite of Boston Celtics.

This is just sad. It's surprising that Woj is set to retire. We still have Shams though but if the rumors or news are coming from Woj, they're more accurate.

There is 1 question to this one.
- Are both Milwaukee and Dallas willing to give up their main superstar just to get draft picks and some role players?

Take note that both Mavericks and Bucks aren't a bottom-tier team and they are competing for the title. I'm pretty sure that they will not give it up. The Lakers can free up space to get another superstar, but it will not either the 2 of them. They can get other potential superstars from other bottom tier team, but they will not get neither Luka or Giannis. Now let's think that you're the one managing the Lakers, can you please share a mock trade proposal then? One of the Mavericks-Lakers and another for Bucks-Lakers. Or it will be a 3-team trade?

With Woj out already, Shams has all the floor to be in the position where Woj has for a very long time. I don't also think that Shams will be the only one that's on the top, but I believe there will be another reporter there that will be against him. Like what he did with Woj back when he was still starting. As for Woj's sudden retirement, it's shocking TBH especially we know how long he has been in ESPN, but it is what it is.

Yeah, there's no reason for the Bucks to trade him but we've seen star players that have decided to part ways with the team that they've became the face of.

I think that the rumors have said that a year ago or two that it was Giannis expressing his thoughts about leaving the team.

There were some memes even about it that if Bucks won't give his brother a contract, he'd leave.

I don't think that'll work either for both teams. Doncic and Giannis are both a franchise player, so trading them away is not in their books. If, let's say they thought of it somehow, they'll probably going to demand even more. On the other hand, DLo and AR15 or even Rui is now a vital core for the Lakers. They could actually build their team around these 3. This is actually the reason why the Lakers did not trade DLo away and decided to keep him for the 2024-2025 season. Though I'm not a hundred percent sure, maybe they could use him as a piece for a trade to get another superstar, but Doncic or Giannis is quite far from happening IMO.

I have never heard this news, so there was a news about New Jersey acquiring a team again and 76ers was their prospect? I remember in the past that the Nets was with them but that was too long time ago and I was younger back then.

This is what most of the successful teams did. Studying what the teams that have obtained a ring did in the past. Bucks with Giannis, Warriors with Steph, Klay, Dray and of course the contribution of KD but all of those that have stayed for so long with them have been developed. The Boston Celtics also did the same thing for developing Tatum and Brown, the Nuggets have Jokic and Murray.