Are the Boston Celtics Really Going to Land Giannis Antetokounmpo?!?!

The NBA is on Giannis watch, and the crew spent the segment trying to figure out where exactly Giannis Antetokounmpo lands and what it costs to get him.

All reports point to a decision tomorrow. The former MVP is expected to be traded from the Milwaukee Bucks to one of two teams: the Boston Celtics or the Miami Heat. The chatter, the crew agreed, is leaning Boston.

Part of that read comes from what is happening in New York. After years of pushing the Knicks away, the Knicks just won a championship, and Boston fans do not like that. The sense in studio was that Boston is sweetening the pot to respond.

The bigger question is what the deal actually looks like. You do not trade Giannis for eight first-round picks. Milwaukee needs a real player coming back, and that means Boston cannot keep both Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. One of them has to go.

The crew made the case for Brown as the centerpiece. When given the chance to be a number one option this year, he proved he could be one, ranking among the top players in the league and drawing MVP buzz mid-season. So is it Brown for Giannis straight up? Does Boston add a pick or two? Another player?

Miami presents the other path, but the math gets harder. Bam Adebayo is not going anywhere, which points to Tyler Herro plus picks and role players. That package did not impress the crew. If you are Milwaukee, you need serious star power back to stay relevant in an East now ruled, as one of them said with disbelief, by the New York Knicks.

Then there is the team nobody can stop talking around: Oklahoma City. The crew could not believe the Thunder would not come off the top rope with everything they can offer. They have all the picks and a deep roster where pretty much everyone except Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is available. They could move two or three players and still be fine, then add Giannis.

But OKC may stand pat. The thinking: a healthy Jalen Williams during their playoff run might have put them over everybody anyway. They hold two picks in this draft, they have talent, and their chemistry, the kind the Knicks showed off too, means a lot. Why tinker?

There is also the fit question. In Miami, Giannis stays the lead dog. In Boston, it becomes Tatum's team, with Brown likely the reason Boston has to split those two. In OKC, it is still Shai's team.

Lost in all of it is that the NBA draft is tomorrow too. The top of it, the crew said, is the best in recent years: A.J. Dybantsa, Caleb Wilson, Caleb Boozer, Aaron Peterson. But the Giannis story is taking up all the oxygen in the room.

One closing wish from the crew, from an OKC fan's point of view: see whether Chet Holmgren answered the challenge after getting his heart snatched, whether he hit the weight room and got stronger. That, and not getting run out of the West by Wemby, is the storyline to watch.