Hour 1: Giannis to the Knicks? Deadline Smoke, KAT Rumors, and a Wild NBA Week

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Evan unloads a rapid-fire stack of reports that all point to one wild possibility: the Knicks making a real run at Giannis Antetokounmpo before the NBA trade deadline. They dig into the smoke around Giannis potentially leaving Milwaukee, Rich Paul circling, Portland lurking as a multi-team power broker, and the Knicks quietly testing the market on Karl-Anthony Towns. Then the debate gets real: does a Giannis blockbuster raise the ceiling or shrink the window? What does it cost (Bridges, KAT, McBride, swaps), and can the Knicks actually win with chemistry and health risks midseason? Plus, the guys react to fan calls, the idea that Giannis’ personality might play very differently in New York, and a head-scratching Mike Brown moment where he admits he doesn’t even know the upcoming schedule. To close out Hour 1, the conversation swings to Super Bowl talk: Seahawks vs Patriots, why Seattle feels like the better team, and whether New England can keep pulling off wins even if the score doesn’t always look pretty.

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0:00.0	I want to present to you because I'm not sure if everyone has it, if they've collected all the information.
0:04.6	I'm going to present to you a lot of info that's come out over the last 48 hours.
0:09.8	Teak will interpret what it means and we'll go from there.
0:13.4	Okay.
0:13.9	Okay.
0:14.1	Number one, Jake Fisher reports of Bleacher, the Bucks have, quote, a grudgingly realization that trading
0:24.4	Janice Antenacumbo is best for both sides. Mark Spears says, I think Janus has played his last
0:32.9	game as a buck. Stefan Bondi, the great reporter in the New York Post writes, Rich Paul is working to steal Janus as a buck. Stefan Bondi, the great reporter of the New York Post writes,
0:38.5	Rich Paul is working to steal Janus as a client with a pitch that he can get the star
0:44.7	to his preferred destination.
0:48.2	Jake Fisher also reports, Portland is definitely a team to keep track of here when it comes to Janus.
0:55.8	No one is suggesting that a trade to the Trail Blazers is a scenario that the
0:59.2	Yonis camp would push for, but Portland still controls Milwaukee's draft capital in 28,
1:05.1	29, and 2030, thanks to the teams Drew Holiday for Damien Lillard's swap.
1:10.4	And I'm told that the Blazers officials have always viewed Antunacombo's potential Milwaukee exit
1:17.0	as a chance to improve their own roster by jumping into a multi-team deal.
1:22.7	Related to that, the Trailblazers really like McKell Bridges. Oh, this is happening. And one more. Mark
1:30.7	Stein reports on Monday. A belief persists among some rival teams that the New York Knicks could put
1:37.3	big man Carl Anthony Towns in play to some degree. Or for the Knicks at the very least, they've tried to get a sense of what the market would feature back.
1:48.0	So I just gave you like 15 different things.
1:51.4	Yes.
1:51.9	Does it not lead to the actual possibility as much as I didn't think it would happen prior to the trade deadline?
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