The Warriors recently informed Jimmy Butler they don’t plan to trade him as he rehabilitates from a torn ACL in his right knee, a league source tells Nick Friedell of The Athletic.
Jake Fischer and Marc Stein of The Stein Line reported on Saturday that they have received “strong indications” that Golden State’s offer for Giannis Antetokounmpo is unlikely to include Butler. Both players make $54.1MM this season.
General manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said he didn’t expect to trade Butler in the wake of the six-time All-Star’s season-ending injury. However, that was before the Bucks became more receptive to offers for the two-time MVP.
Multiple reports have indicated Stephen Curry is the only untouchable Warrior in talks for Antetokounmpo. Golden State’s actions will speak louder than words when it comes to Butler, Friedell notes.
If Butler is not part of the Warriors’ offer, four-time champion Draymond Green will likely have to be part of the outgoing package for salary-matching purposes. He addressed that possibility on Friday.
“I’ve been here for 14 years,” Green said. “I have no reason to sit and worry about leaving. But if I’m traded, that’s part of the business. I ain’t losing no sleep, though. I slept great last night.”
Other members of Golden State’s roster admit the lead-up to the trade deadline is a stressful experience.
“It’s hard on all of us,” veteran big man Al Horford told Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area, “but especially for younger players that are trying to find their way and establish themselves. This time of year, I find that it doesn’t matter what team you’re on, it’s always going to be stressful.
“It’s tough. We kind of have to have some sort of empathy for everybody, because we’re all just kind of going through it. And there’s a lot of ‘what ifs’ and things like that. From my experience, once the deadline passes, everybody kind of takes a deep breath. It slows down, and you’ll see a better team.”
Backup guard De’Anthony Melton is trying to tune out the outside noise, according to Poole.
“Honestly, you just got to put your head down and work,” Melton said. “Some stuff is out of your control. Early in my career, one of the vets told that when a superstar or whatever wants to get moved, everybody’s on the (trading) block. Nobody’s above the program.”
Warriors assured Butler there’s no market for him.
Lmao
Zach is available lol
Warriors are transparent. They want to trade away Draymond.
Starting in January 2024, I always wanted to trade away Draymond
Me too Sillivan.
They should have traded him directly after he punched Poole after Poole followed Kerr’s orders and told him to say that. Kerr gotta go too.
Gary on fire today
I love unhinged at the trade deadline Gary. We need more authenticity like him. Lmao
THIS
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I doubt the warriors will trade for Giannis now that Curry knee is going to need a lot of rest. Also Bucks can do a better trade this off season and get a high pick for sure in this years draft. Bucks want young players which the warriors do not have.
“Bucks want young players which the warriors do not have.”
Podziemski, Post, Moody, Will Richard, Gui Santos, Trayce Jackson- Davis, Kuminga. All 25 and younger.
Melton, Leons are slightly older.
They have tons of young players on their roster.
Let me better say it young players with all star potential which none of those are.
I guess he should have specified young AND good – which they don’t have.
“ They have tons of young players on their roster.”
They want good young players. Good.
The Thunder should be all over Giannis
Isiah Joe
Jaylin Williams C
Kenrich Williams Pf/C
Dieng
Wallace
Topic
Some draft picks
Thunder get Giannis and then can reload the roster with their 2026 and 2027 draft picks that would create a roster crunch but trading for Giannis eliminates that inevitable roster crunch of who to keep which draft picks to trade
The Thunder have repeatedly stated they are not going after Giannis. So you wrote all that for nothing.
No i wrote it to suggest the Thunder should go after Giannis by trading former lottery picks, high second rounders, and depth (Joe Wiggins Mitchell all play SG) so they don’t have to worry about an inevitable roster crunch since they have 3 1st round picks in 2026 and 2026
Trading 6 players creates 6 spots for the rookies they can add to an already deep lineup.
Are you too poor to pay attention to a comment that’s less than 500 words?
No, I just heard (on here + in the press) from OKC’s front office that they do not want Giannis on their team. You are ignoring that fact. They will trade some of those picks for someone, but it won’t be Giannis.
Im not ignoring that fact
Im writing my opinion about what the Thunder should do.
The Thunder are gonna do what the Thunder want to do regardless what I you or anyone says
That doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to state my opinion about an upcoming issue they’re gonna face – roster crunch
Giannis is the best player available and makes sense for the Thunder who have front court issues currently. It also solves their roster crunch dilemma
They could also solve it by trading for a lesser player or players Dayron Sharpe Nic Claxton etc but you’d be getting lesser value trading from he same pool of pieces
By that some logic though you constantly ignore and question the warriors regarding Kerr Kuminga Moody development and decisions made by front office snd coaching staff. Just food for thought
Please elaborate? I dont get what you are saying. What is the “same logic”? The OKC front office has stated they arent after Giannis. How does that apply to Kerr’s awful player development skills? Two completely different topics.
wow, Dr. arc. you sure have a lot of inside info! that’s cool!
It’s called reading Larry. Fact check what you read. Funny thing is nobody knows not even ESPN insiders.
He is old and has a torn ACL. No win now team is interested and rebuilding teams need picks not him.
Draymond might finally be on the move whether it’s for Giannis or another guy
They don’t need Butler to make the trade and they can keep Draymond. They just have to trade Kuminga, Moody, Hield, Pod, Melton, Santos, and GP3. Easy.
That package is easily beat by Minn, NY, Hou, Atl.
Minnesota and NY don’t have any picks so if it’s half of the warriors roster and valuable picks that’s better than Randle or KAT to Milwaukee
ATL has very strong assets and Houston would probably have to trade their point guards
Well I was being sarcastic so..
Literally the warriors bench is so bad guys on the waiver wire are better than a lot of them
You must be Davey’s other alias.
their bench leads ALL BENCHES IN SCORING
Unless GA wants to go there they don’t have an attractive package. Just media taking low hanging fruit. Draymond provides no value to like 28 teams. Podz is meh and Kuminga is not viewed positively. Only 2 of those picks maybe really good.
GA can see this team wouldn’t be better than okc, sa, Minn or Nuggets.
Exactly ancient one warrior trade is media hype. If people look at it as a Bucks fan no way they want a trade with no future all stars
That would be the worse trade ever. Warriors would have 0 bench. That would never happen. Seriously do people think a NBA team can win without a bench?? Giannis to warriors is just media hype.
Giannis to warriors would be about next year.
Next year? When Curry turns 39? Lmao
It’s pretty obvious that the Bucks would be very unlikely to get Giannis’ approval. The only chance of it happening is if the Bucks decide they don’t owe Giannis the respect he deserves and MDJ thinks Giannis would come around after he plays with Steph and the scraps.
Trade Butler, Kuminga, Seth Curry and picks to Miami for Wiggins, Powell and Rozier
Trade Rozier, Heild and two 2nds to Chicago for Nikola Vučević and cash
Promote Spencer
Sign a shot blocking C on two way contract
Championship
Who cares about Butler’s feelings because he sure hasn’t cared about others
This won’t win a championship
I’ll bet a dollar it could
The heat wouldn’t take back Jimmy. Zero chance.
Did you forget that Butler burned his relationship with the Heat last season?
Your trade suggestions continue to lead all as far as absurdity.
Not with that attitude, you won’t!
I hope they keep Melton, he’s been amazing playing with Curry.
IMO
Probability of Giannis being traded — Bucks want talents younger than 25 and high value Firsts
Heat 25% — Giannis favorite but Heat are likely to make bad offers (similar to Lakers)
Warriors 25% — 4 First round picks and 3 Swaps
Knicks 10% — Bucks want high value first round picks
Wolves 10% — Bucks want high value first round picks
I don’t believe that Knicks and Wolves
Other teams 5% each
I doubt the “assurance” to JB amounts to much. We’ve all seen a team tell a player and the league that the player is “untouchable” only to have him moved like a week later.
If the Warriors could move Butler for Giannis they would. But Giannis would need to “assure” the Warriors he’d extend with them, MIL would need to see the package as a plus and Warriors would need to empty their draft pick coffers for the foreseeable future. Hard to see all three of those things happening.
Too many is only listening to espn spin on it. Why would the Bucks trade their franchise player just for draft picks? They already said they want young players which the warriors lack. They can wait till the off season and get young players and draft pick in this draft that is top 5 if a team moves up.
It all depends on where he is willing to extend. No team will trade everything for him if he isn’t going to re-sign with that team. That factor limits the trading partners for MIL. So despite a better package from a team if Giannis says “I don’t think so” it ain’t happening.
Draft picks equals young players, just a different route. When you’re a middling to bad team, you take the best package you can get, regardless of timeline.
Also with the 2nd apron restrictions players on rookie contracts are more valuable than ever. If you get a young player in a trade that will need to be extended to market value by the time you’re ready to compete that’s nice and all, but not ideal from a timeline perspective. Ideally you sign or trade for a few good more expensive players and have your cheap rookie contracts fill out the rest.
If Heat offer this package to Bucks
Herro
Jaquez
Ware
Heat only have 2 Firsts and 2 Swaps to offer
Heat have no bench at all — all are unplayable
If Heat pay Giannis $275 million, someone would offer more money to Norman Powell in June this year
I’m sure PHI’s FO did similar and assured PG that he won’t be traded. Although, even he, at least in theory, might be back for the playoffs.
BKN would be the only team that might have the spare payroll room to warehouse Butler’s contract, but the price would be steep. MIL is already stuck with Lillard’s dead money going forward; even a complete rebuild requires some cap space.
Butler has an expiring contract in July, easy to be traded
No, he’s signed through 2027, and its not clear if he’s going to play much next year. Actually, he’s the one guy in the NBA that’s probably impossible to trade without big consideration attached (not merely a single FRP).
Wrong – unrestricted after 2027
The way I read it, I think Sillivan meant that in July his contract will then become “an expiring contract” with one year left.
Not an expired contract but expiring. At least that’s how I read it.
I like Towns
Trade idea
Warriors get Towns
Knicks get Money Green, Kuminga, Hield and 2028 and 2032 Warriors lottery protected Firsts
then Knicks search a high value first round pick from third team and trade it to Bucks
So just because you like Towns, the Warriors should get him? lol this is insane.
I like Wemby, so the Warriors should get him.
In other words, they are doing everything in their power to trade Jimmy but no team wants him
If the Warriors are seriously going to mortgage the future, they might pull it off. But I still think the Heat are more likely.
– my guess is the Bucks would value Herro > Green and Jaquez/Ware > Kuminga/Podz
– I think (don’t quote me) they have an exception that would allow them to send back $16m less, and the Bucks are looking at repeater tax if they don’t cut salary
– Giving up the ’30-’32 picks is risky for any team, but it’s a much bigger risk for the Warriors. For the Bucks that’s a positive, but it makes me wonder if the Dubs will end up hedging.
Curry’s knee will need a lot of rest so is it smart taking a chance he is healthy this year?? He had a MRI done on it and has runner’s knee which means it will bother him all season. Last postseason he went down and so did their chances.
Assurances are like A Holes
I guess you make a lot of assurances.
“What the hell Mike …… I did tell you I still have my joy here in San Fran”
~ Jimmy Buckets
Draymond, Kuminga, Buddy and 3 FRP and a pick swap = better than any other deal. They can always flip Draymond to a contender, especially if he agrees to be a bench guy.
It’s funny because depth actually would not matter if you had both Giannis and Steph out there at the same time. Add Moody, Melton, Seth, Santos, TJD, Post and Horford and you have a strong top 9 aka playoffs roster.
There are not too many duos where you can get away with a small bench, but Steph and Giannis together really just need high IQ guys, they can be low ceiling guys as long as they know how to stretch the floor.
Late and close lineup of Steph, Melton, Moody, Giannis, Horford is winning a title. If GSW somehow keeps Jimmy too, then that’s an absurd trio, they might break 74 wins next season if Jimmy is healthy and Kerr is gone.
Wemby and Stephon Castle for Kuminga works moneywise. Warriors would probably want some picks too but that could be a good starting point.