NBA TRADE DEADLINE: Bucks Keeping Giannis (For Now), Ja Morant's Next Team and More

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Milwaukee Bucks will not trade Giannis Antetokounmpo before the NBA trade deadline. What does this mean for the Bucks going forward and their chances of keeping Giannis beyond this summer? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore and Haize go live ahead of the trade deadline to break down the latest moves. They're joined by local experts to talk about Giannis' future, whether the Grizzlies will trade Ja Morant, the Mavericks building around Cooper Flagg, James Harden's fit with Donovan Mitchell in Cleveland and more.

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome to the Lockedon NBA Daily live trade deadline special.
0:08.0	We have a ton to get to today.
0:10.0	Yannis not getting traded today.
0:12.0	So where does that leave the bucks?
0:13.0	And what happens to Yannis this summer plus we've got the latest on every move as the dominoes start to fall.
0:19.0	Let's jump in.
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0:55.0	Hello and welcome to Locked-on NBA Daily, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network. However, you're tuning in on YouTube or on your podcast app. Thanks for making us your first listen every day. I'm Wes Goldberg here with Matt Moran Hayes. We are live on YouTube two hours before the NBA trade deadline. We have a ton to get to. We're going to be breaking down every trade during the show.
0:57.0	We're going to be joined by some of Lockdown's local experts for more expertise on their teams.
1:01.0	But guys, let's start with the breaking news out of Milwaukee.
1:05.0	This is from Shams who reports that the Milwaukee Bucks have indicated the teams that they are keeping
1:09.0	Yannis and Tenguco through the trade deadline and will start making other trades. Sources tell ESPN. We saw them make a minor move to get Nick Richards. Congratulations, I suppose, to the Milwaukee Bucks. But Matt, you've been talking a lot lately about how this was the most likely scenario for a while now that Yannis stays with the Bucks beyond the trade deadline.
1:28.2	What do you make in the news and what do you think this means to the next couple of hours here?
1:31.6	I mean, it's like the rational decision for the Bucks and it's, I do think that Yonis deserves a lot of
1:38.8	credit for not forcing them into a bad situation because he could have walked in on Monday and been like,
1:45.4	okay, I want out.
1:47.7	You're going to send me to this team or this team.
1:49.2	These are your two choices.
1:50.5	And that would have put a lot of pressure on them and narrowed it.
1:53.0	And it would have wound up with them getting a pretty bad deal because nobody had a good deal.
1:58.6	I said on Monday the Warriors deal was crap.
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