Knicks' NBA Finals run doesn't dispel potential offseason trade for Giannis
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz discuss whether the New York Knicks could still trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo this offseason if they lose to Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
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Does making it to the finals and just getting to this point against Wemby and the Spurs mean that we can finally put a fork in the conversation about Giannis to the Knicks?
Is Giannis to the Knicks dead already just because we're seeing this matchup in the finals?
I don't think so.
I don't think anything is off the table.
We know this owner enough to know that nothing is off the table, and I will use the Western Conference Finals as the best example as to why I don't think Giannis to the Knicks is dead.
Oklahoma City won a championship last year with Chet Holmgren being a massive part of it.
Chet Holmgren gets cooked.
Cooked.
Not just in game seven, but really a big part of that series against San Antonio.
So now what's the narrative around Chet Holmgren?
Bum, can't win with him, gotta trade him, gotta go get Giannis.
Victor Wembanyama has broken the brains of every general manager and coach and fan across the NBA, that I think the new line of thinking across everyone in the NBA will be, "How do we stop this guy?"
If the Knicks don't win, if San Antonio wins, let's say, in four or five or six or seven, if San Antonio wins a championship, just like how San Antonio beat Oklahoma City in seven, and even in seven games, a back and forth series, that was enough for everyone to talk about Giannis to Oklahoma City.
So if San Antonio wins a championship, New York will have the same line of thinking that everybody in Oklahoma City is having, that everyone in Minnesota has, everyone in Denver has, everyone in the West is having.
And they are saying, "How do we stop, how do we limit, how do we defend that 7'5" French alien out there?"
I keep thinking about one thing.
Chet.
That's all I keep thinking about.
The way we were talking about Chet a few weeks ago was one way, and then Chet faced the alien, and all of a sudden now it's like, "Get that bum out of here.
He can never wear an OKC jersey again.
This guy isn't worth it, bag of beans," whatever you have to.
Trade Chet for Giannis.
That's what we're saying now based on one series that went seven games where Chet clearly wasn't prepared to take on the beast known as Victor Wembanyama.
I wanna think that the Knicks have shown so much that there's absolutely no world where they move on from, let's say, Karl-Anthony Towns.
But my God, if you're the Knicks and you get boat raced by Wemby, just thinking about the way the tone has changed around Chet, what's that gonna do in New York?
