His new team, his old team and Lillard himself come out on top after the blockbuster deal, while the third team in the trade and the one that thought it had him all along fall short.
With Antetokounmpo expecting Milwaukee to do everything in its power to compete for titles, this trade represents a show of good faith by a franchise to its franchise player. Antetokounmpo and Lillard are aligned in their desire to win at all costs, and the Bucks’ 2020 trade for Holiday is proof that a bold maneuver can pay off with a title.By including Phoenix in this deal, Milwaukee escaped the burden of needing to provide Portland with a centerpiece talent in the trade package.
Parting with Holiday, Allen, a first-round pick and two first-round pick swaps to land Lillard means that Milwaukee paid less than the Minnesota Timberwolves did for Rudy Gobert and the Cleveland Cavaliers did for Donovan Mitchell last summer. Given Lillard’s talent and Antetokounmpo’s urgency, that’s a price worth paying without thinking twice.The puzzling decision to dump Ayton to Portland for center Jusuf Nurkic should be viewed as collateral damage from Phoenix’s massive bet on Bradley Beal.
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