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Bucks icon Giannis Antetokounmpo was reportedly traded to Miami on Monday night.<\/p>\n
MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo wants more championships. So do the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n
Their interests are officially aligned \u2014 and the Heat finally have another superstar.<\/p>\n
Ending a marathon watch for the next great Miami get, the Heat landed Antetokounmpo \u2014 a two-time NBA MVP and 10-time All-Star \u2014 from the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night in exchange for a massive haul of players and draft picks.<\/p>\n
The terms, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move had yet to receive the required league approval: Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis are heading to Miami for Wisconsin native Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel\u2019el Ware and Kasparas Jakucionis.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee also gets the No. 13 selection that will be made in Tuesday night\u2019s NBA draft, along with a first-round pick swap in 2030, first-round picks in 2031 and 2033 and a second-rounder in 2033, the person said.<\/p>\n
Heat receive:<\/b><\/p>\n Bucks receive:<\/b><\/p>\n It ends a wild back-and-forth in the final days of the saga, with the Bucks considering offers from both Miami and Boston for Antetokounmpo \u2014 who led Milwaukee to the 2021 NBA title, was on the NBA\u2019s 75th anniversary list of its greatest players ever, is a nine-time All-NBA selection and is coming off an injury-shortened season in which he averaged 27.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Heat go star hunting again, and it pays off<\/p>\n There has been no secret that this is what Miami has sought, because this is what Miami usually seeks. The Heat pulled off similar moves by landing Shaquille O\u2019Neal in 2004 (helping lead to the 2006 NBA title) and by getting LeBron James and Chris Bosh to play alongside Dwyane Wade in 2010 (leading to four NBA Finals runs in four seasons together, along with the 2012 and 2013 NBA titles).<\/p>\n Now, it\u2019s Antetokounmpo\u2019s turn. At 31, the Heat clearly believe he still has many good years left \u2014 and it\u2019s generally presumed that by making this deal they\u2019ll give the Greek superstar a massive extension later this year.<\/p>\n He was a perennial MVP candidate in Milwaukee, getting votes for that award in nine consecutive seasons before 2025-26 when too many missed games left him ineligible.<\/p>\n He has averaged 24.1 points and 9.9 rebounds per game in his career, with 10 consecutive seasons of averaging at least 22.9 points \u2014 with three years in there of averaging more than 30 points per game.<\/p>\n Only seven active players have more points in their careers than Antetokounmpo, who has totaled 21,531 to this point.<\/p>\n A trade seemed inevitable<\/p>\n Antetokounmpo had been mentioned in trade talks countless times in recent years, with the Bucks always insisting \u2014 with words and actions \u2014 that they had no interest in trading their best player and one of the best players in the history of the franchise.<\/p>\n But this time, it seemed different.<\/p>\n\n
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