This is the shit the talking heads never mention when talking about Giannis staying or leaving Milwaukee. His Milwaukee ties are DEEP. The former owner and Senator Herb Kohl helped get his family to the US. The bucks helped his family get his brothers into good schools. A former bucks staffer taught Giannis how to drive and Giannis would crash on his couch when he was lonely. I’m not saying the Bucks should hold these things over Giannis head, I’m saying these things really matter to Giannis and are definitely a factor in his decision making that the media never mentions. His relationship with the Bucks is different than every other stars relationship with their team
I don’t think any of these are things that only the Bucks would do. A lot of players build those relationships behind the scenes that we don’t hear about. Even KD in OKC probably still has connections to people there all these years later
To the people of OKC, KD is completely and totally dead to them. Russ on the other hand absolutely, he could come at any time and people would still love him. I’ve seen him in so many different places here, but there was never that vibe with KD. KD is a bit more loner vibes, Russ has always been super friendly to everyone he interacts with, and everyone respected him the way Giannis talks about.
I tell this story pretty often but I used to work in one of the biggest poker rooms in Oklahoma, Russ would frequent it pretty often, but the first time he came in he was like hoodie on, sunglasses, but it’s Westbrook, he’s a fucking massive dude, compared to the average 45 year old white poker player, he did this for like 3 days before some random guy at the table was like “bro we all know it’s you” and from that day forward he stopped with the incognito get up and nothing changed everyone treated him like normal. He knew all the dealers names and was super fucking nice.
This is the shit the talking heads never mention when talking about Giannis staying or leaving Milwaukee. His Milwaukee ties are DEEP. The former owner and Senator Herb Kohl helped get his family to the US. The bucks helped his family get his brothers into good schools. A former bucks staffer taught Giannis how to drive and Giannis would crash on his couch when he was lonely. I’m not saying the Bucks should hold these things over Giannis head, I’m saying these things really matter to Giannis and are definitely a factor in his decision making that the media never mentions. His relationship with the Bucks is different than every other stars relationship with their team
“We’re gonna need a bigger
boatsofa.”yea, Senator Herb Kohl had to call in a favor from then Secretary of State John Kerry to get Giannis into the US in the first place.
Is this true? Thats crazy lol
I don’t think any of these are things that only the Bucks would do. A lot of players build those relationships behind the scenes that we don’t hear about. Even KD in OKC probably still has connections to people there all these years later
of course other teams would do it, but not every player is going to value those efforts the same as giannis seems to.
To the people of OKC, KD is completely and totally dead to them. Russ on the other hand absolutely, he could come at any time and people would still love him. I’ve seen him in so many different places here, but there was never that vibe with KD. KD is a bit more loner vibes, Russ has always been super friendly to everyone he interacts with, and everyone respected him the way Giannis talks about.
I tell this story pretty often but I used to work in one of the biggest poker rooms in Oklahoma, Russ would frequent it pretty often, but the first time he came in he was like hoodie on, sunglasses, but it’s Westbrook, he’s a fucking massive dude, compared to the average 45 year old white poker player, he did this for like 3 days before some random guy at the table was like “bro we all know it’s you” and from that day forward he stopped with the incognito get up and nothing changed everyone treated him like normal. He knew all the dealers names and was super fucking nice.