The Bucks picked up the Knicks' call on Antetokounmpo for an exclusive negotiating window after New York emerged as the only destination he wanted to play for outside of Milwaukee, sources told Charania over the summer, but Milwaukee maintained its superstar was not available throughout the first half of the '25-26 season. League sources have long believed that it was going to take a more forceful effort from Antetokounmpo to force an exit.
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