Monica just pointed out that the Knicks are shooting (under) 25% from three over their last three games. Hadn’t tracked that.

Add to it that the Kings have been shooting 40% from distance lately. Things don’t look good.

Without Lebron

I’m not really buying KAT as a legit trade chip for Giannis. If they’re moving him it’s for a teardown, so they’d want picks and expiring salary, not a guy who’s locked into $50m+ until the third Trump Administration starts.

There are on the hook for multiple coach salaries and have Doc now. Doc is not going to accept an all out rebuild and it would be crazy to fire Doc at this point and pay yet another coach. They will certainly want more than just Towns. So we would have to add something else of value and take some garbage back, but I would not be shocked that if Giannis asked out (that’s the real question mark) that the Bucks try to compete with Lillard + whoever they get for Giannis and don’t go into all out tank mode. It may be the wrong thing to do, but they have’t done a single thing right since they won the champsionship with Bud. That’s why they are in the mess they are in even though they have one of the best two way players in the NBA.

Randle -> KAT -> Giannis would be like that guy who started with a paper clip and kept trading it for slightly more valuable items until he ended up with a house.