The Milwaukee Bucks.
The Bucks have an opportunity at the Feb. 5 trade deadline to bring in some players that could help Antetokounmpo get Milwaukee closer to the goals they have for the season. The team is struggling and needs significant roster upgrades to support Giannis, who remains committed. Recent reports from ESPN suggest that the Bucks will look to keep Giannis happy, as they currently find themselves as the East’s 11th seed. Michael Porter Jr. is the homerun candidate for the Bucks at this year’s deadline. The likes of Ja Morant, Michael Porter Jr., Zach LaVine, Jerami Grant, Andrew Wiggins, and Miles Bridges have all been earmarked as potential Bucks trade targets. Porter is averaging 25.8/7.5/3.2 this season.
Porter would add to the Bucks’ elite three-point shooting and would add some much-needed size and rebounding ability to Milwaukee’s lineup. Porter has thrived in a role with another big whole played the role of a “point guard” in Nikola Jokic, and Giannis has talked about how the offense is better when he is the initiator. Porter is Milwaukee’s best chance at keeping Giannis happy. Ball is a superconnector pace-pushing outlet-tossing handoff extraordinaire, relocating 3pt sniper assist machine.
He might be the most popular player in the league these days, between his no-look passes and insane degree of difficulty shotmaking. Adding a shooter with Ball’s relocating 3pt gravity to run handoffs and pick-and-rolls within the two-man game alongside Antetokounmpo would fully unlock Giannis’ rim-rolling play-finishing skill set while providing him maximum spacing, whether he’s on or off the ball. Porter is off to an insane scoring season, increasing efficiency and degree of difficulty while increasing volume, resulting in career-highs across the board. MPJ has shown a willingness to accept a lesser role on a team with championship aspirations, yet if Milwaukee traded the farm for him, they’d need everything he can give them.
Milwaukee sports the best starting 5 in the NBA based on net rating, but their depth, Giannis’s availability, and their inability to close out games– coaching, rebounding, defense– have gotten the Bucks to this point. Expect the Bucks to be aggressive in making a significant move to add talent and improve their chances of a playoff push, potentially reshaping their roster around Giannis Antetokounmpo before the deadline passes.
Brewers.
There may be no club that has utilized the international market as well as the Brewers have over the past few years. Jackson Chourio in 2021. Jesús Made and Luis in 2024. And now, to begin the 2026 international signing period, the club has agreed to deals that will net them three of the Top 50 prospects: shortstops Ricky Moneys (No. 20), Diego Frontado (No. 24) and José Rodríguez (No. 49). Milwaukee received $7,357,100 in pool money this year, tied for the second-highest allotment, and put it to good use. Moneys, Furtado, and Rodríguez each pulled in at least a $1.2 million signing bonus, as the club spread out its funds to land three or more members of the Top 50 for the fourth time in the past six years.
Money’s enters the pro ranks coming off a sizzling seven-game stint in the Amateur Scouting League in which he walloped three home runs and collected seven RBIs while slashing .429/.652/1.071 en route to league MVP honors. He’s a right-handed hitter who has oodles of bat speed and the rare ability to hit the ball out of the park as a teenager. He earns high marks for his all-around makeup, and the club feels he could follow a similar trajectory to Made and Peña, quickly climbing the ranks due to his physicality and loud tools. Frontado features an exciting blend of tools and in-game production. Evaluators rave about his right-handed swing, and although he’s still growing into his power, he has the type of whippy action that will produce extra-base hits naturally as he fills out. He also has solid speed, with 6.6-second 60-yard-dash times to his credit. He uses that to his advantage defensively, displaying advanced lateral agility and a nose for the ball. Rodríguez’s carrying tool is his glove.
Tall and athletic, the native of Maracay, Venezuela (home to former Brewers Omar Narváez and Jesús Aguilar), makes difficult plays look routine with top-tier anticipation and solid arm strength to boot.
The Green Bay Packers.
Matt LaFleur has a strong regular-season record with the Green Bay Packers at 76 wins and 40 losses, and one tie (.654 winning percentage) in his first seven seasons (2019-2025), leading them to the playoffs in all but one year, though his postseason record stands at three wins and six losses (.333). He ranks among the top active NFL coaches in regular-season winning percentage, but the team has struggled in deep playoff runs despite early success.
The Green Bay Packer was considering dumping Matt because of his rather low percentage of wins in postseason games. Since he is one of the highest performing coaches in national football, that would have been a mistake, and the president and general manager of the Packers saw it that way and extended his contract. They might consider letting him be more of the decision maker for the team and tethering in the upper management to keep their snoots out…although that’s unlikely. It was upstanding for the NFL to conclude that the hit Love took that gave him his concussion was administered illegally. The player who deliberately struck after the ball was thrown was assessed a penalty fine of forty-six thousand dollars, and the NFL grudgingly admitted, since no penalty was called, that the fifteen-yard penalty would probably have changed the outcome of the game.
