Giannis Antetokounmpo wishes he'd shut down trade rumors at deadline earlier
•Yahoo Sports
"If I could change something, maybe I'd come out and shut it down, because I think people wasn't listening to me."
At the February trade deadline, Giannis Antetokounmpo rumors were everywhere. It was the talk of the league — and its fans. Looking back on it, Antetokounmpo wishes he had more forcefully shut the talk down, he said on Gogi’s Garage YouTube show .
"One is that this was the first time that it was real. Yeah. You know, it was a lot.
And I'm not saying that it was real that I wanted a trade. It was just, bro, everywhere I went, in the street, people would tell me, 'Don't leave. Don't do this.
Please stay. ' It was real. Back in the day, when I was younger, 25, 24, they would always say this stuff.