Today, ESPN reporter and Russian Nesting Doll-bodied Brian Windhorst made an announcement: Giannis Antetokounmpo asked for a trade before the season.
This week, folks recognized Giannis removed all Bucks content from social media, the universal indicator of a professional athlete’s unhappiness.
The Milwaukee Bucks are 9-13.
If the playoffs started today, they wouldn’t even qualify for the play-in tournament.
“Guys, he asked to be traded already,” – @WindhorstESPN details what’s going on with Giannis and the Bucks 😯 pic.twitter.com/NPlLayk8xu
— ESPN Cleveland (@ESPNCleveland) December 3, 2025
“Guys, he asked to be traded already,” Windhorst said in regards to fans worrying about Antetokounmpo’s social media activity.
As for when Antetokounmpo will be expected to be traded? “Well, that’s the thing. What appears is that Giannis committed himself to the season for the Bucks. That’s what appeared to happen. … A lot of people in the league don’t think he’ll be a Buck next year.”
Giannis is leaving Milwaukee.
So far, he’s having one of the best seasons of his career.
- 30.6 points per game
- 10.7 rebounds
- 6.4 assists
- 43% from 3
He is one of the best players in the NBA, shackled to a basement-dwelling organization that believed Kyle Kuzma and Myles Turner would solve their problems.
Time for the Knicks to trade for Giannis
Coming into this season, you could not tell me the Knicks needed to break up a core of players fresh off an Eastern Conference Finals run—especially with the team that beat them in the ECF looking destitute as Tyrese Haliburton learns to walk again.
But 20 games into the season, the Knicks look ordinary.
The team is 13-6, coming off a brutal road loss to the Boston Celtics—allowing them 56 points in the paint and a Jaylen Brown 42-piece.
Jalen Brunson played maybe his worst game in a Knicks Jersey.
15 points on 6-for-21 shooting (1-for-8 from 3).
He looked like a little bitty baby out there—someone’s son running onto the court—stampeded.
Brunson already doesn’t provide much defensively—so when his offense is gone, this team must rely on Mikal Bridges heroics and Karl-Anthony Towns stomping up and down the floor in Krusty the Clown shoes, slipping on banana peels and stepping on rakes—somehow ending the night with 20 of the most disgusting points ever scored.
Defensively, KAT might as well hang back on offense and catch outlet passes.
Karl-Anthony Towns protects the rim about as well as Olivia Nuzzi protects her privacy.
How can I watch this team get manhandled by the Orlando Magic twice this season and believe the Knicks will just luck their way into a championship?
The window is right fucking now.
Not next year when Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton are back.
Or when the Detroit Pistons add a legit scorer and/or role player next to Cade Cunningham.
Or the Hawks and Magic realize Trae Young and Paolo Banchero aren’t that, trading them away for key role players that optimize and lubricate their internal machinery (instead of all that ball hog shit Trae and Paolo love doing).
The last thing the New York Knicks need right now is to open their phones to a Shams notification about the Miami Heat acquiring Giannis.
The Brunson/Kat 2-man combo, at best, 45 guaranteed points on the board—at worst, 145 guaranteed points given up—neither man able to keep a player in front of them.
The Knicks could either have perennial MVP candidate, Giannis Antetokounmpo, or they could rely on this to get them to a championship:
Greatest physical comedians of all time:
3. John Ritter
2. Karl-Anthony Towns
1. Lucille Ball pic.twitter.com/fA9RlBq04U— Dreadlef Schrempf (@TheLesterLee) December 3, 2025
Nights spent staring at my muted TV, hoping Karl-Anthony Towns, a 30-year-old grown-up adult man, would stop committing petty fouls and learn how to create contact to send himself to the free throw line—the way every other star NBA player knows and understands how to do.
20 games in, Karl-Anthony Towns is Julius Randle with a hotter wife a few more All-Star appearances.
Giannis is one of the best basketball players of all time with a chip on his shoulder to win another title.
Fuck it, the New York Knicks should trade for Giannis.
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