All right, well, in typical NBA fashion about 45 minutes after Kevin Pelton and I wrapped the podcast you are about to listen to.

Janus, a tentacumpo, holy smokes, a few hours before his deadline to do so he did the thing that he said

he was almost certainly not going to do which was extend now this season, three years, 186 million dollars to remain with the

Milwaukee Bucks.

His deal now with, according to Bobby Marks, as a player option for 2027 to 28 kind of aligns in that sense with

Damian Lillard who has a player option for 2627. Wow. Well look I said

when Janus made those comments first to the New York Times and then to the 48 minutes podcast with his old Milwaukee Bucks co-worker, Ross Geiger and company, the most public expressions of uncertainty he's ever uttered about whether Milwaukee was the place he thought he could win enough to commit long term.

To his credit, it's always been about I want to win. It's not about geography, not about market, it's about winning.

The Bucks had obviously been through the same extension uncertainty before. They solved it with a mega trade for Drew Holiday that convinced

Yannas, yeah, yeah, they're serious enough. I'm staying. Then they won the first title in the history of the franchise in 50 years.

First title since Oscar Robinson and Kareem 1971. Here they are again and look to the buck's credit internally I think they were

worried but like a reasonably worried the kind of worry that doesn't affect your judgment doesn't cloud your judgment doesn't make you panic

The kind of worry you should feel when you have one of the greatest players of all time that's what the honest is going to be on your team for a finite period of time in

his prime telling you privately and publicly what happened last year against the

he wasn't good enough?

We got to do better. I don't know what that means. I'm not going to get involved in the decision-making and to his credit since I don't want I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want names. I don't want suggestions. I certainly do not want to

approve any trade that sends Drew Holiday a

champion a winner out of here but what's been going on in the playoffs is

not quite good enough second round loss loss, first round loss, so the second round loss was without Chris Middleton in a really game effort against the Celtics.

To the Bucks credit credit they said privately publicly

publicly anytime you talk to him hey this is what he's telling us internal

that you guys in the media can make a big deal out of him saying it publicly

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