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I don’t know any Milwaukee Bucks fans in real life but I’m sure they exist and I’m sure they woke up today feeling really good about life.
The reason, of course, is that Giannis Antetokounmpo re-signed with the team on Tuesday, agreeing to a supermax deal worth $228.2 million over five years. The announcement came just a week before the NBA’s supermax deadline and ensures Bucks fans of having a team that can contend for a title for at least the next six seasons, because Antetokounmpo has one year left in his current deal.
My pal Charles Curtis broke down the winners and losers of this deal shortly after it happened. And my other pal Mike Sykes explained how the real work for the Bucks starts now.
While there are some losers in this mix, the winners far outweigh them and it starts with the fans of a team who no longer have to worry about their star player leaving town for some “bigger” market or some “better” franchise.
And that has to feel pretty darn good.
The biggest winner, obviously, is Antetokounmpo, who will make all that money, which must be really nice.
This deal thankfully now means we don’t have to go through a whole season of speculating what Antetokounmpo, who tweeted about his loyalty a few years ago, is going to do moving forward. We don’t have to hear all the analysts yelling out their theories after bad losses or tough times for the Bucks.
Thank the Lord! And the Bucks’ wallet.
Instead, we all get to watch one of the most special talents we’ve seen in quite some time get to really dig in and try to lead his franchise to a NBA title.
The Bucks spent the brief offseason making moves that would help Antetokounmpo do just that and now they were rewarded by having their star player sign on for five more years. Sure, that “reward” cost them over $200 million but it will all be worth it if he can turn this franchise into a championship contender each year.
Bucks fans now know what their future is going to look like and have to be thankful that they won’t be seeing their star contending for championships with the Warriors or the Heat or any other teams that might have been interested in his services.
Antetokounmpo is staying in Milwaukee and he’s looking forward to bringing the city championships.
And that has to make all you Bucks fans very, very happy.
– Steven Ruiz broke down some film and found out why Cam Newton isn’t to blame for the Patriots’ struggles on offense.
– Charles McDonald wrote his first Four Verts column with us and he looked at, among other things, how big of a joke Zac Taylor is in Cincinnati. This is some really good football content that I highly suggest.
– NASCAR’s Ryan Blaney is growing out a pretty great grizzly lumberjack beard.
– Henry McKenna’s latest NFL Power Rankings have a new No. 2 team – the Buffalo Bills.
– Lane Kiffin hilariously trolled Nick Saban over the Auburn job.
