Three Potential Trade Targets for Bucks to Keep Giannis Antetokounmpo Happy

The Milwaukee Bucks finished 32-50 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

Five years removed from a championship, and they could not even get a play-in spot.

Giannis Antetokounmpo played a career-low 36 games and still averaged 27.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists when healthy.

The guy was not the issue.

The roster around him was, and if Milwaukee wants Giannis to sign that $275 million extension in October, the front office cannot just tinker around the edges.

Something substantial has to happen this summer.

The Bucks hired Taylor Jenkins on April 30 to replace Doc Rivers, who went 97-103 over two and a half seasons.

Jenkins was an assistant under Mike Budenholzer during the 2018-19 season when Milwaukee won 60 games, and he posted a 250-214 record across six years coaching the Grizzlies.

Good hire, but a coaching change alone is not going to convince Giannis to stay.

Milwaukee has some trade pieces to work with.

Their 2026 first-round pick could land around 10th in a loaded draft, and they have future firsts in 2031 and 2033.

Myles Turner and Bobby Portis work as salary filler in bigger deals, and Ryan Rollins had a breakout year that either makes him a building block or the centerpiece of a trade package if Milwaukee decides to swing big.

This would be the aggressive play.

Memphis and Milwaukee reportedly talked about a Morant deal at the deadline, and the Grizzlies wanted Rollins. Milwaukee passed.

But the offseason shifts that notion.

Morant put up 19.5 points and 8.1 assists across 20 games before an elbow injury ended his season, and the durability questions are fair since he has only appeared in 79 games over three years.

He is 26 though, and Milwaukee has not had a lead guard since Damian Lillard tore his Achilles.

Rollins, Turner and that lottery pick could get Memphis on the phone.

Powell is more of a steady add than a splash, but he fills a gap Milwaukee needs filled.

He averaged 21.7 points with Miami on 47 percent shooting and 38 percent from deep.

He is an unrestricted free agent, so a sign-and-trade is probably the only way the Bucks get him.

What he brings is a second scorer who does not need the offense run through him every time down.

Ingram has been on the trade market for a while, and his playoff situation in Toronto makes him gettable.

He can score 20 a night and get to his spots in isolation, and at his size he shoots over most defenders.

The salary is around $36 million, but Turner and a future first could open that door.

He adds the scoring punch Milwaukee was missing all year.

All three options carry some gamble, but doing nothing after a 50-loss season while Giannis sits one year from free agency would be worse.