How it started: The New York Knicks engaged the Milwaukee Bucks in summer trade discussions about Giannis Antetokounmpo and will be closely monitoring the two-time Kia MVP’s situation this season.

How it’s going: Antetokounmpo appears to have found a new, young running mate in unheralded guard Ryan Rollins, their team is winning, and the Greek superstar is off to another historic start, even chasing one of the NBA’s most elusive statistical achievements.

Those two paragraphs aren’t inherently contradictory, but the second one is crowding out the first as the daily drumbeat around Milwaukee and its franchise player has calmed, reassuring the Fiserv Forum faithful.

Playing and winning, thriving collectively and individually, always beats offseason navel-gazing as a way to pass NBA tim

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