{"id":1163597,"date":"2026-02-23T01:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163597"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:26:57","slug":"ive-kept-in-regular-contact-with-four-sources-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/ive-kept-in-regular-contact-with-four-sources-close\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;ve kept in regular contact with four sources close \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the fact that Antetokounmpo&#8217;s recent interview with ESPN&#8217;s Malika Andrews featured multiple comments that would appear to keep the door ajar for an eventual exit from Brewtown, <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-the-latest-around-the\" title=\"Read more on marcstein.substack.com\">I&#8217;ve kept in regular contact with four sources close to the situation who have all maintained that a move to a true title contender is the most likely endgame for the 31-year-old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-the-latest-around-the\" title=\"Read more on marcstein.substack.com\">marcstein.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rumors\/2026\/02\/22\/ive-kept-in-regular-contact-with-four-sources-close\/88817623007\/\">I&#8217;ve kept in regular contact with four sources close \u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ive-kept-regular-contact-four-012657924.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/ive-kept-regular-contact-four-012657924.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the fact that Antetokounmpo&#8217;s recent interview with ESPN&#8217;s Malika Andrews featured multiple comments that would appear to keep the door ajar for an eventual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}