Bucks set to meet with Giannis Antetokounmpo next week about direction of team

Sam Amick: But I mean—yes—like, it’s Steph’s party. It’s right next to Chase Center at the Splash restaurant and bar that they have there. It’s a Warriors evento. Yes, and it’s almost midnight. And Giannis and his wife Mariah—they come to the party. They go up the stairs, and the room kind of stops. Like, I’m literally talking to Joe Lacob in that moment, and it was pretty entertaining to see Joe kind of turn and start having—you know—kind of hearts in his eyes as he looks up the stairs. But that being said, the Warriors—and my colleagues at The Athletic just put this out yesterday—all signs point to them being all-in on the Jimmy Butler era. Major changes are not the focus right now. They want to build around their new Big Three. So, we’ll see where it goes. -via YouTube / May 16, 2025

Sam Amick: You know what I mean? Like, they want every scenario to gut the other team. And Jon Horst is going to go for blood here, I’m telling you. He just got a new extension. He has the organization’s backing. Jon is not going to just try to be on good terms with Giannis—he’s trying to do right by the Bucks. And that means that if every scenario in play leaves the other team so gutted that Giannis might not actually be in that much better of a situation, then maybe that’s where he looks at the room and says, “All right, let me stay put.” -via YouTube / May 16, 2025

Logan Murdock: It doesn’t seem, at this point, that the Golden State Warriors are in the Giannis sweepstakes. I don’t think they will be— not because they don’t want to—but more so because they just don’t have the assets to get him. There was a big brouhaha—you wrote about it, I wrote about it—about Giannis and Steph hanging out at the All-Star Game. From what I heard—and I’m sure you heard the same thing—there was a feeling that Giannis was very, very intrigued by the idea of one day being a teammate of Steph Curry. There was at least a sense from league officials that Giannis wanted to play with Steph in the very near future. That was the impression many people got during that soirée. -via YouTube / May 16, 2025