Warriors get good news on trading for Giannis Antetokounmpo thanks to NBA Draft lottery rule changes

The Warriors, relative to most teams pursuing Giannis, might fit that bill. With their age, even trading for Antetokounmpo only opens the window up for a few years.

Eventually, their future picks may be in the lottery. That's a lot harder to see with a team like Boston.

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There is always the chance, noted by insider Marc Stein in a new article, that these changes (and any that might still follow) could reduce draft pick trading in the near term as teams try to figure out what the full picture is going to look like.

That might not help the Bucks, though. If this is the summer that Giannis gets traded, then they'll just have to navigate the best they can, and it makes more sense to bet on picks from a team that seems more likely to be poor in five years.

It's not a perfect formula regardless, because any team the Bucks trade Antetokounmpo to has a chance to be good for a bunch of years to come simply because they have Giannis.

But at least the aging happening in Golden State makes them a candidate to eventually fall off the table and make those picks particularly valuable.

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