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At age 30, Giannis Antetokounmpo is having one of the best seasons of his life.
And it doesn’t matter.
The Bucks are currently the 5th seed in the East behind an Indiana Pacers team led by a dork who hits more 3’s off the court than on it.
Milwaukee started this season losing 8 of their first 10 games but urged fans to be patient—33-year od Khris Middleton would soon return from BOTH of his ankles being surgically repaired in the offseason.
Middleton was so bad they moved him to the bench.
Needless to say, Milwaukee was desperate to make a move.
Last year’s big Damian Lillard trade helped Portland tank for young talent, helped the Boston Celtics win a championship and made the Bucks an irrelevant group of guys who played like complete strangers meeting each other for the first time, like, 10 minutes before every opening tip.
This year, the Celtics are still the defending champs.
The Cleveland Cavaliers got a new head coach who had the genius idea of shooting more of the shots that are worth more points and now they’re unstoppable.
The Knicks have 5 guys all capable of scoring 20 points on any given night and a head coach who doesn’t even bother putting in bench guys who aren’t as good.
Milwaukee needed to make a splash at the trade deadline to save their season…
Breaking: The Milwaukee Bucks are trading Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson and a pick swap to the Washington Wizards for Kyle Kuzma, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and second-round draft compensation, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/hCOzqqqUXE
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 5, 2025
Kyle fucking Kuzma?….
Kyle Kuzma highlights vs Dallas 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0x6uE7uDsR
— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) January 28, 2025
Oh no…
Kyle Kuzma is in the midst of the worst season of his career, shooting only 42% from the field and 28% from 3.
He’s a big man who doesn’t rebound.
He’s not a playmaker by any means.
Defensively, he need not even bother. Guys are walking past him to the basket regularly.
This Kyle Kuzma trade makes Giannis one step closer to LeBron’s legacy
How does Kyle Kuzma Turn Giannis in LeBron?
According to reports, Giannis was instrumental in sending his friend Khris Middleton the fuuuuck out of town, but more importantly, in acquiring Kyle Kuzma specifically.
I’m told a key element of the trade talks that brought Kyle Kuzma to Milwaukee in exchange for championship mainstay Khris Middleton: a large vote of support for Kuzma from one Giannis Antetokounmpo.
— Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) February 5, 2025
I want to reiterate that Kyle Kuzma is having the worst year of his life and Giannis was eager to play alongside him.
LeBron James was the king of demanding his front office acquire guys who were good at one point but not at all at the point when they joined LeBron.
From making the Miami Heat draft Shabazz Napier—sorry let me show some respect, 2-time Lega Basket Serie A Champion Shabazz Napier—to sending Kyle Kuzma to Washington for Russell Westbrook, shit, LEBRON JAMES JUNIOR IS HIS TEAMMATE RIGHT NOW—LeBron has always fallen in love with basketball players who aren’t as great at basketball as he believes.
Giannis is officially in his LeBron era.
I don’t know if it’s fair to include the Dame trade in the list of bad Giannis front office demands because no one knew Glorilla was keeping his wife up at night so we’ll count hiring first-time head coach Adrian Griffin as his first LeBron-esque mistake.
Griffin didn’t even survive the full season before the entire locker room looked at each other like “the fuck is Giannis’s man talking about???”
Now, they just traded for the worst player in the starting 5 of the worst team in the NBA.
That’s like dropping Almond Joys all over the floor (the worst candy ever) and then only picking up and eating the dirtiest, hairiest ones.
I’m not personally rooting against Kyle Kuzma or Giannis—although I wish Kuzma was electrocuted any time he even considered sending out a tweet—but I pray this fails so Giannis is tasked with finding a new piece and asks Milwaukee to get him like, Tim Hardaway Jr or some other scrub.
Let this trade be the genesis of a hilarious trend where Giannis begs for the worst players in the NBA.
We’re a year away from the Bucks acquiring Evan Fournier.
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