The Ringer: “From what I heard, they made an offer in the past week.” @BillSimmons and @ZachLowe_NBA discuss the latest on the potential of Boston making a move for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Bill Simmons: “I think they dove in.
From what I heard, they made an offer in the past week, a couple of days before I mentioned it on Thursday. I don’t know what the offer was, and I don’t know who’s in it. But they are in, the hat was in the ring, which I was really surprised by, as I said on Thursday, because I thought they were sitting it out. And I don’t know… Do you think something changed? Do you think they looked at this from every angle, or that they realized ‘oh, that’s it from the Miami offer? We can beat that.’ Like what would have changed their mindset? Because I do not think they were in on Giannis at the beginning of the offseason. Zach Lowe: I don’t think they were ever out. I just the safest bet is always inertia, right? Like the safest bet is ‘We know that the nucleus we have works really well, and there’s some degree of risk in shaking that up for a 31 year old who’s been injury prone, and we’re gonna have to sign him to a ginormous extension.’ That’s a big pivot for a team that has a pretty large window now of being one of the best teams in the NBA when everyone’s healthy.
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