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Boomer & Gio

Best of the Knicks on WFAN: Giannis Rumors Heat Up

Boomer & Gio

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4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Boomer and Gio react to the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade demand and the possibility of him becoming a Knick. Plus, SNY Knicks reporter Ian Begley joins Evan & Tiki to talk Giannis and more (12:13); Evan & Tiki give their thoughts of a potential Giannis trade (28:58); Craig Carton and C-Mac talk Giannis to the Knicks with ‘Basketball Jones’ (46:17), and Craig and C-Mac on the likelihood that the Knicks part ways with Karl-Anthony Towns for Giannis (57:39).

Transcript

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0:00.0

So things getting more interesting with Janus yesterday, as Shams posts on X and writes an article

0:09.4

about how he officially requested a trade and now the Milwaukee Bucks know that he is not going

0:15.5

to be a part of their future, either at the trade deadline this year or in the off season after the season. And you

0:23.5

would wonder, you know, why would you wait till the end of the season if he's causing this much

0:28.1

trouble? Well, the NBA, which is very complicated, I'm not going to get into the weeds about it.

0:33.0

But once the season ends, there's more picks that can be traded. There's these rules about

0:36.6

odd-picks, odd year picks and even-year picks. It's more picks that can be traded. There's these rules about odd picks, odd year picks and even year picks. It's just a whole mess. So that's why there has to be a third team involved. You're not going to be going to be four teams involved. Yeah, maybe. Honestly, three or four teams, but you're just, you can't do it straight up. It's just impossible. Yeah. So you've got to make the money work. You've got to make the certain picks work. And I think McHale Bridges isn't eligible to be traded until February 1st, by the way. Well, okay. Whatever that rule lives. Well, yeah, but the deadline is February 5th. So. I know, but what I'm saying, like, if they wanted to make the trade today, they couldn't. If you were involved in the trade. I mean, we're like three days away from being able to make it.

1:13.2

But yeah.

1:13.8

So, I mean, they would figure out a way to get Mikhail Bridges in the deal, which I think he'd have to be.

1:19.8

So they're doing as much reading as I can on this particular thing.

1:26.5

And if the, I think the Golden State Warriors, as many people have reported, are in prime

1:31.8

position to make that trade.

1:34.0

However, Janice has talked about only wanting to go to New York.

1:39.3

So if he only wants to go to New York, first off, the Knicks are going to have to want him and make this trade.

1:46.0

So that's one thing we don't know.

1:47.6

We assume that Leon Rose and Mike Brown and everybody over there and Jim Dullen would want to take Janice and have him on the team.

1:56.1

But I don't know that for a fact, especially if they believe in Carl Anthony Towns more than we do. But let's

2:02.4

just for argument's sake say that they do want Janus. So one of the teams that I think would have

2:08.8

to be involved with picks and the way that they had to trade with the Bucks earlier to and everything

2:13.9

else would be the Portland Trailblazers. So then you have the Trailblazers, the Knicks, the Bucks, and maybe another team.

2:20.6

But the thing that I read that I think makes the most sense, and if they could somehow pull this off,

2:26.4

where they would only have to trade, and it's only, but still, you're getting yonness,

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