Bucks owner wants to have Giannis Antetokounmpo decision made by NBA Draft: 'He may or may not be with us'
The Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo now have about six weeks to make a decision about his future with the organization.
Giannis Antetokounmpo’s future with the Milwaukee Bucks, whatever it may be, should be decided in the coming weeks. Bucks owner Jimmy Haslam said on Wednesday that the franchise would make a decision on the star player’s future with the organization before the NBA Draft in June. That gives them about six weeks to come to a decision.
“Before the Draft is a natural time, right? Because if Giannis does play somewhere else, then we ought to get a lot of assets,” Haslam said, via TMJ4’s Karley Marotta. “That’s [general manager] Jon [Horst]’s job to do it.
If he’s here, then you’ll build the team differently … I just want to stress though that our relationship with him, despite what is reported by certain ESPN writers, is very positive. ” Jimmy Haslam says they are going to make a decision on Giannis' future before the NBA Draft and stresses that communication has been good between them despite what some "ESPN" writers say. pic.
twitter. com/yx0QMhPiLh — Karley Marotta (@Karley_Marotta) May 6, 2026 The situation between Antetokounmpo and the Bucks got incredibly messy this past season. The two sides were in a standoff over his health near the end of the campaign, where the team wanted to shut him down against Antetokounmpo’s wishes.