A target Giannis Antetokounmpo has wanted previously is reportedly on the trade market this offseason. The Milwaukee Bucks could shuffle some pieces around this summer to make the team a little more competitive on the offensive side of the ball.
The Bucks’ roster has been good enough to dominate the regular season. But the team needs a little more firepower to help free up Giannis in the playoffs. The Bucks lost to the Miami Heat, the eighth seed, in the first round of this year’s playoffs because the team was stagnant in the series. Another shooting guard could level up the Bucks.
A Giannis Antetokounmpo target, Bradley Beal, is on the market
According to Adrian Wojnarowski with ESPN, the Washington Wizards and Bradley Beal’s agent are working on trade inquiries for the three-time All-Star shooting guard.
Full ESPN story on the Wizards, Bradley Beal and his agent Mark Bartelstein working together on trade inquiries: https://t.co/2bgf1CMc9h
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 14, 2023
Bucks fans might remember Giannis is a fan of Beal’s play. According to a 2020 report by Brian Windhorst and Kevin Arnovitz with ESPN, Giannis told then-Bucks owner Marc Lasry that Beal was a player he wanted the team to try to add to the roster:
“In addition to [Bogdan] Bogdanovic, he cited Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal as a desirable target for the Bucks. Without impugning specific teammates, Antetokounmpo was implicitly suggesting what just about everyone in the organization — and the NBA — knew: The Bucks needed to upgrade their backcourt.”
A few years later, the Wizards are looking to shop Beal. On would assume Giannis would be interested in adding Beal to the Bucks’ roster this offseason. Beal’s points per game have gone down considerably since his All-Star season for the 2020-21 campaign, but he would have much to offer in the Bucks lineup. We’ll see if the Bucks pop up in a report as a team interested in trading for Beal.
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Not much of a craft. The third sentence of the last paragraph is wholly unreadable, and it and the first two are barely sentence fragments.
Journalism: still below a 7th grade level (though this is below 5th).