Milwaukee Bucks General Manager Jon Horst Indicates a Possible Position Change for Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2025-26

Waiving and then stretching Lillard allowed the Bucks salary cap space to use to sign players better suited to play alongside Giannis. And while most of their moves were to re-sign their own players, such as Bobby Portis, Gary Trent Jr., and Taurean Prince, they also made a huge splash in free agency.

That, of course, was luring center Myles Turner away from the hated Indiana Pacers to replace Brook Lopez (who signed a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Clippers). The stunning signing of Turner is still one of the bigger topics in the NBA, as Turner is a defensive wizard who will compliment Giannis on that end of the floor quite well.

And while Milwaukee also re-signed point guards Kevin Porter Jr. and Ryan Rollins, as well as snagging Gary Harris in free agency, they did not make as big of a splash in the point guard market as many thought they would.

Milwaukee Bucks General Manager Jon Horst Indicates Giannis Antetokounmpo Could Play Point Guard

Recent comments that Bucks general manager Jon Horst made to Eric Nehm of The Athletic may indicate why Milwaukee did not feel the need to replace a nine-time All-Star in Lillard at the point guard position because they plan on having Giannis run point himself.

“He truly is becoming a real point guard — or a real point forward, like Doc calls it — so I think that allows us to dive even deeper into it than we have in the past, but I think those have always been some of our most successful lineups and groups. Putting him out there with a bunch of shooters and ball movers and let him just dominate. You stop him, he passes it. You don’t, he dunks it. And I feel like we’ve got a number of those guys.”

This past season, Giannis tied his career-high in assists per game with 6.5. He also averaged 3.1 turnovers a game, which was his lowest mark in that category since the 2017-18 season.

Obviously, having the Greek Freak play point guard may be what the Bucks choose to do on the court for large portions of the game, but he will still play defense as a front court player. His rebounding his far too valuable.

In this case, the Bucks will likely still start another guard like Rollins, Porter, or even AJ Green so that Giannis can kickout the ball to them for wide open threes.