Spurs now have one obvious move after a draft lottery for the ages

San Antonio landed the number two and 14 selections in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft as a result of the Draft Lottery, so it's time to pick up the phone and call Milwaukee about Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The number one overall pick was always a long shot, but now that we have definitive results, the Spurs should package at least one of their lottery picks with a few players, hoping to entice the Bucks to trade their franchise player down south.

Everyone agrees about the talent in this draft class, so there are players who would certainly help this franchise. I've lobbied for the drafting of quite a few of them, and I stand by that if the Spurs choose not to trade their draft picks. However, now that Giannis may be available, the priorities have to change.

Any prospect not named Cooper Flagg is tradeable for the Greek Freak. He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer if he retired today, and he's still in his prime. With picks two and 14, the Spurs won't get a shot at one of the best players Duke has ever produced, so pivoting only makes sense given this option's possibility.

The Spurs' picks this year would be very valuable to Milwaukee

San Antonio has two lottery picks in one of the deepest first rounds in recent memory. They'll be a much better team next season—assuming good health—so who knows where that pick lands in a not-as-good draft. That's important because the Bucks already don't have their picks. They traded them away in 2020 when they acquired Jrue Holiday from the New Orleans Pelicans.

Several analysts believe that they'd want some of their picks back from New Orleans if they were to trade Giannis, so a multi-team trade may be required. The thought process is that Milwaukee would have less incentive to trade their best player if they can't start to rebuild through the draft. They'd just be a bad team with no hope of a fresh reset.

That's why San Antonio's picks are so important. They could offer the Bucks a quick jump start by trading both lottery selections, and if they do that, they may be able to keep Stephon Castle out of any deal.

It would be hard to believe that the Silver and Black would be able to pull off another major deal without including the Rookie of the Year, but there's a similar force at play in Giannis' situation as there was in De'Aaron Fox. Antetokounmpo only has two years left on his deal, and one is a player option.

If he says he wants to come to San Antonio, it puts the Bucks in a tough spot, as other teams would be uncertain whether he'd re-sign. There are already rumors floating around that the former MVP is interested in playing in a no-income tax state.

He's already thinking about leaving, according to Shams Charania. That means his heart isn't in Milwaukee anymore. The sooner he makes his official request to be traded, the sooner the Spurs can package these picks together to get the Greek Freak to Alamo City.