The Giannis Antetokounmpo trade discussions are, unfortunately for anyone reading this, not likely to stop any time soon. Does it make you feel any better to know that, if the Bucks do trade Giannis, they might be real beneficiaries?
That's what Tom Haberstroh of Yahoo Sports argued (or at least floated the idea of) on The Big Number podcast recently:
"The superstar trade paradox... The rebuilding team that sells the superstar, oftentimes does better than the team that acquired the superstar... You think those teams add those MVP candidates to their squad as the missing piece on a superteam and they're just going to be cooking with gas, but I looked at the 11.