Timberwolves Circled Back on Giannis Trade Talks This Week
The Minnesota Timberwolves are trying to shake up their roster this offseason.
However, while nobody is untouchable — outside of Anthony Edwards, maybe Jaden McDaniels and Joan Berenger — it sounds like president of basketball operations Tim Connelly is extremely hesitant to deal most of the key rotation players from 2025-26, outside of Julius Randle.
Unless, of course, they were to climb back into the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade circus, which has been drawn out multiple years, at this point.
Bucks asking price for Giannis is “unrealistic”
According to NBA insider Jake Fischer (Stein Line Substack), the Milwaukee Bucks are asking even more for their 31-year-old 2x MVP and 10x All-Star than they were at the trade deadline back in February.
Several sources have conveyed that Milwaukee GM Jon Horst has established especially ambitious asking prices in Giannis talks.
The word that keeps coming back: “Unrealistic.”
The Bucks are obviously entitled (and even expected) to ask for anything they want in exchange for Antetokounmpo, but they also might be forced to acknowledge that the landscape certainly has a different look now than it did at the in-season trade deadline.
Jake Fischer – Stein Line Substack
Unfortunately for the Bucks, there are less teams interested than there was then. Thus, the offers are actually worse than they were at the deadline. That’s why Giannis is still in Milwaukee and why the Bucks spent this week seeking additional trade offers.
MN Timberwolves circled back to Giannis trade talks recently
In fact, per Fischer’s sources, one team that circled back with the Bucks this week on Antetokounmpo was the Minnesota Timberwolves. In February, Connelly was one of the NBA’s most determined to land Giannis.
When the two sides got back together this time around… it became evident quickly that they are not on the same page.
I’m told that the Timberwolves, for example, indeed circled back to the Bucks this week to see what it would take to make another run at pairing Antetokounmpo with Anthony Edwards … after The Stein Line revealed in late January that a partnership with Edwards had quietly appealed to Giannis for some time.
Yet Milwaukee is said to have asked for even more now than the teams discussed in the winter when Minnesota was at the forefront of the Giannis Trade Chase along with Golden State and, of course, Miami.
Jake Fischer – Stein Line Substack
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We still don’t know how close the Wolves ever got to landing Giannis at the trade deadline, but it’s clear they were considered one of the finalists.
Jaden McDaniels off the table?
It’s believed that Minnesota had Jaden McDaniels on the table, along with as many first round picks as they could send (one) and a plethora of young talent.
Since he was drafted by the Timberwolves (technically the Lakers) No. 28 overall in the 2020 NBA Draft — the same year they selected Ant No. 1 overall — he’s pretty much been off the table in any type of trade talks.
Outside of when Connelly was negotiating for Kevin Durant and Giannis, he’s been mostly unavailable. More than likely, he’s not on the table anymore for Giannis either.
Otherwise, the deal would probably already be done, since (at least for now) Fischer and other league insiders expect Antetokounmpo to land in Miami, for a deal highlighted by Tyler Herro and first round picks.
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