{"id":544226,"date":"2026-01-26T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/544226\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:15:10","slug":"raptors-look-set-up-to-trade-for-giannis-antetokounmpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/544226\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors look set up to trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raptors look set up to trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Toronto Raptors<\/a> could make a push to trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n

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They’ve got just the right treasure trove of assets to make things interesting if the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> do indeed decide to trade away the Greek Freak.<\/p>\n

Complicating matters right now is that Antetokounmpo is out with a calf injury that will sideline him beyond the NBA trade deadline.<\/p>\n

That won’t stop teams from picking up the phone to see if the Bucks would trade Giannis in the next couple weeks anyway.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are set up nicely to have a chance.<\/p>\n

“Outside of perhaps Detroit, no East playoff team can beat a potential Antetokounmpo trade package from the Raptors,” ESPN’s Bobby Marks wrote<\/a> in a new article on Monday.<\/p>\n

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That comes with one caveat.<\/p>\n

“The difficulty of the trade increases if Milwaukee asks for\u00a0Scottie Barnes,” Marks adds.<\/p>\n

The Raptors would likely want to do the deal to pair Barnes and Antetokounmpo together, not to just swap them.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee, of course, would be warranted in asking for everything Toronto has in exchange for its superstar.<\/p>\n

“Besides the ability to trade four first-round picks and swaps in each season, Toronto has an All-Star (Scottie Barnes), mix of veterans (Brandon Ingram,\u00a0RJ Barrett,\u00a0Jakob Poeltl,\u00a0Immanuel Quickley) and young players on controllable contracts (Gradey Dick,\u00a0Ja’Kobe Walter,\u00a0Collin Murray-Boyles),” Marks writes.<\/p>\n

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Given Antetokounmpo’s injury, Milwaukee might wait on a move until the summer. But whenever the time comes, the Raptors could certainly be in the mix.<\/p>\n

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