BREAKING NEWS : Milwaukee Bucks key players agree personal terms to joined Miami heat

The Milwaukee Bucks finished the regular season with a 48-34 record, earning the fifth seed in the East.

They will meet the fourth-seeded Indiana Pacers in the first round of the playoffs for the second consecutive year. Last year, they were ousted in six games when 2021 Finals MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo suffered an injury three games into the season. This time, they’ll be without nine-time All-Star Damian Lillard, who is sidelined indefinitely with a pulmonary embolism. Marcus Morris, an NBA veteran, is pessimistic about the Bucks’ future given the situation. On ESPN’s First Take, Morris looked ahead to the summer, where he feels the situation could dramatically shift. “If I’m Giannis and we don’t get past this first round, I think I’m going to, I think I’m going to sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny Miami,” Morris remarked on Sunday. “Listen, it’s completely open over there. You can begin something fresh. It’s a huge market. You know what they need; it’s wide open, right? And you mention Dame as well. Like, do both of them somehow slide to a new team and get to Miami?” Lillard originally requested a trade to the Heat in 2023 before the Bucks made a deal with the Portland Trail Blazers. Additionally, the Heat went out to pursue Antetokounmpo in 2021 before he signed a deal with Milwaukee.

“I mean, listen. “We have seen crazier things happen,” Morris remarked. “Do Milwaukee want to blow it up after losing, right? You’ve just got Kyle Kuzma. For example, if they lose in the first round, I believe there will be a lot of questions to answer, and I know Giannis wants to win.

Morris believes the Bucks’ talents can develop something in Miami now that the Jimmy Butler era is over, despite his co-star Stephen A. Smith’s fair concern that the Heat will not have enough to make such a move. “But I’m not sure, if I’m Giannis, that I want to keep trying after he got his one. Is there anything fresh happening right now? Is there a new challenge? Do I switch to a new team? Do I go to a larger market? I think it’d be something to see for sure.”