The Atlanta Hawks could quietly possess the most important assets in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade sweepstakes. If they never bother putting them on the negotiating table, though, then trade talks between them and the Milwaukee Bucks will never get off the ground.
That's the problem recently presented on the Third Apron Podcast, where the hosts opined that Atlanta probably can't justify coughing up either breakout forward Jalen Johnson or the wildly attractive 2026 first-round pick at their disposal (the more favorable of New Orleans' or Milwaukee's). And that, in turn, left the hosts trying to assemble an offer that the Bucks might legitimately deem insulting.