“Maximizing Giannis’ prime, our opportunities to win, I feel like that’s our responsibility always,” Horst told Eric Nehm of The Athletic at Summer League. “So it was really a now versus future decision.”

It’s a bold pivot — one aimed at turning the lemons of the disastrous Lillard injury into the ostensible lemonade of being able to continue flanking Giannis with a floor-spacing center who can also patrol the paint, thus granting the Bucks access to the most optimal version of a player who continues to operate at an MVP level. Just how sweet and refreshing the result is, though, will depend on just how much head coach Doc Rivers can get out of a hodgepodge of complementary pieces who don’t necessarily scream “a team that allows me and gives me a chance to win a championship.”

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