Reports recently emerged that the two teams that are likely destinations for Giannis Antetokounmpo if he ever asks out of the Milwaukee Bucks would be the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks. This makes a lot of sense considering how the Lakers and the Knicks are arguably the two biggest-market teams in the entire league, and if Giannis were to jump ship, it wouldn’t be surprising if he decides to try life in the limelight after spending years in a small-market team like the Bucks.
NBA Rumors: Giannis Antetokounmpo Unlikely to Join Lakers, Knicks

For one particular Eastern Conference general manager, however, he believes that neither the Lakers nor the Knicks have a clear path toward the former back-to-back MVP. For one, the unnamed exec argues that the Knicks just don’t have enough assets to make a blockbuster deal work:
“They will need to get lucky somewhere along the line if there is going to be a trade, and the fact is, it’s always a trade now, it’s never really free agency,” the GM told Sean Deveney of Heavy Sports. “But everyone talks like the Knicks have this giant pile of picks. They don’t. They have three heavily protected picks and probably none of them get you in the Top 10. Those are nice, but that kind of protection is not going to get you Giannis.”
The Lakers, on the other hand, still have LeBron James on their roster, and our anonymous GM just isn’t able to envision a scenario wherein LeBron and Giannis are on the same team:
“If LeBron decides to stay with the Lakers and he’s there past 2025–which is probably going to happen–you really can’t get Giannis to the Lakers in that situation,” the GM said. “It’d be tough.”
NBA Rumors: Giannis to OKC Thunder?

According to the NBA GM, one team that could emerge as a darkhorse to land Giannis Antetokounmpo would be the Oklahoma City Thunder. This team has the deepest asset poole at the moment, and they would certainly be able to cook up a blockbuster trade package that might just pique Milwaukee’s interest.
“No one would be in better position to go after him than OKC,” the exec said. “Not to say they would, but they’d have to be a starting point. They have the young talent, they have, I think it is nine (first-round) picks in the next three years. If Milwaukee decides, OK, we’ve got to move on here, that is the first team you call. There aren’t many guys who are going to make the Thunder think about a big move, packaging the assets. But Giannis is one, if he’d want to go there.”
Two other teams that were floated by the GM were the San Antonio Spurs and the Toronto Raptors. According to the unnamed source, it would also make sense for Anteotkounmpo to take his talents to either San Antonio or Toronto:
“I think you can’t rule out those kinds of teams,” the executive said. “Giannis has always carried himself like he is all about winning, like that is what matters most to him. He is a little different. I mean, that is the reputation, anyway. If that is really the case, then wouldn’t he want to go play for (Gregg Popovich), play alongside Wemby there? If Toronto can give up only one of its guys and brought back Giannis? They would really have something there.”
You have to take all of this with a grain of salt, though. Any trade can only happen if Giannis actually demands one. It doesn’t sound like this is going to happen anytime soon, but at the end of the day, you just never know.