One crazy trade every NBA team should make

18. Milwaukee Bucks

Giannis Antetokounmpo is not a normal human being. One might even call him abnormal. The “Athens Abnormality” is not a catchy nor particularly sensitive nickname, but for some reason it’s stuck.

I recently went back and read the scouting reports for his draft class. Among the things that weren’t said about him but could have been were as follows:

• “He is very tall, but is also very young, and that means he could either be really good or really bad. Who knows?”
• “He seems very nice. Green Day wrote a song about that. They are not my favorite band.”
• “One day he will play point guard, and that will work out pretty well. Jared Leto’s performance as The Joker will one day irk many.”

Scouting is not an exact process. Giannis’ development into a legitimate star was a hope but could never really be considered an expectation. The bulk of that credit goes to him personally, but a lot of the non-blame should lay with the Bucks as well. Would Giannis be the same if he were drafted by, say, the Kings? Or a vat of drunk wasps? Probably not.

So let’s see if the Bucks can do it again, but this time we can up the difficulty. The Giannexperience has given them the best training for training one could ever ask for. Put it to work.

We’ve already moved Bruno Caboclo once, but considering the number of realities this article lives in, there’s nothing stopping us from doing it again.

Bruno Caboclo to the Bucks for Giannis Antetokounmpo