Basketball Intelligence For 12/17/25, Part One

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Every Team’s Top 3 Assets With NBA Trade Season Officially Here
Dan Favale, Bleacher Report

NBA News Roundup
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops

Ducking The Tax Watch Heading Into Trade Season, Ducking The Tax Trackers, The Spencer Brothers Are Ballers, Trey Murphy Embodying Dunks And Threes
Nick Thoreson, The Waive and Stretch

How many wins does Giannis have left?
Henry Abbott, True Hoop

The NBA’s most heated parlor game right now is whether the Heat, Spurs, Thunder, Warriors, Raptors or someone else can put together the best package of young players and picks to land Giannis. ESPN recently conjured trade ideas built around Trae Young, Karl-Anthony Towns, Jonathan Kuminga and other big names and high draft picks. There are many stories like this. Two young players who caught my eye in those conversations are some of the league’s best young big men: the Rockets’ Alperen Şengün and the Heat’s Kel’el Ware.

Are those awesome young big men really available? If so, it’s only because GMs knows how much Giannis has done for the Bucks in the past. But what matters now is how much Giannis will do for teams in the future–and how does that compare to what you’d expect from Şengün or Ware?

Let’s try to figure that out.

NBA Power Rankings
ESPN

NBA Power Rankings
Brad Botkin, CBS Sports

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