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Boomer & Gio

No Giannis Trade...For Now

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Giannis-to-Knicks rumor hit the desk, and Boomer's answer was an emphatic 'No!' Find out why.

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The yonest stuff yesterday was really interesting, and then you end up having the calf injury last night,

0:17.2

which adds a wrinkle into this thing for sure, especially what we've seen with these calf injuries and these Achilles, especially in the NBA with superstars.

0:26.6

Right, exactly. So they have until February 5th to work something out if they're going to trade him. And I'm talking about from the Bucs perspective, not the Nix just yet. But if he is, you know, sat down with the Bucks and said, look, I think it's time. You know, he came in here and just ran rabbit over the Knicks when they played here. So I think that was enticing for Nick fans to see. The question would be, what would it take? And by the way, you know, the Knicks had a chance to extend Carl Anthony Towns. They did not do that. I think he's highly motivated. I think he's

0:55.0

playing a motivated brand of basketball right now because he doesn't want to be traded. He doesn't want to leave. He would have to be in the trade if they were going to trade for Antsacompo. Well, that's another layer of this. That's what I'm saying. I mean, like that, you're dealing with a lot of people's, you know, feelings.

1:10.8

And, you know, there are guys that read everything,

1:13.7

see everything that are on social. you're dealing with a lot of people's, you know, feelings.

1:15.4

And, you know, there are guys that read everything, see everything that are on social media.

1:19.1

And I think Carl Anthony Towns doesn't want to go anywhere.

1:23.8

And, you know, he'll be able to sign a new four-year extension at the end of this season. But this thing now is kind of really in a weird spot.

1:30.0

If you are the Knicks, what would it take from the Nick team right now?

1:37.0

Because they have no first round picks right now.

1:38.7

So I did extensive research on this.

1:41.3

I love when you do research because I don't have to. I did I did

1:45.5

extensive research on this because it's super complicated and salaries and I'm gonna try I'm really

1:52.0

going to try not to get into the weeds here but so like because you know the NBA it's nuts.

1:56.7

What do they call it top tier tier? What are your? Aprons. There's aprons. There's a

2:00.6

aprons. There's aprons. So the aprons are involved, but that's really more of a next year salary cap thing. So I'll kind of leave that alone for the time being. But let's just break it down in the most simplest terms that the money has to match. In the off season, there's some wiggle room. You have time to figure it out. season the money has to match. In the off-season, there's some wiggle room. You have time to figure it out.

2:19.5

In season, the money has to match. And if you are going to propose a Carl Anthony Towns for

2:26.4

Janus Anteucco trade and add like another player just to get up to Janus's salary.

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