NBA Stock Watch: Giannis Trade Rumors, Cavs as Contenders, and More

Getty/AP/Ringer Illustration Which early season trends are we buying or selling? We examine the Bucks' brutal start, the Cavs' perfect one, the Lakers' legitimacy, and two All-Stars trying to make the leap. We're now a few weeks into the NBA season. Sample sizes still aren't big enough to provide too many firm conclusions—and injuries to Ja Morant, Zion Williamson, Aaron Gordon, Chet Holmgren, Kevin Durant, Paolo Banchero, Tyrese Maxey, and a few others have cast a pall over the action—but enough time has passed to warrant a good old-fashioned stock watch. Here are a few developments around the league that I'm buying and selling, and a few I need more time to contemplate. Buy: Realistic Giannis Antetokounmpo Trade Rumors Not even two minutes into the second half of Sunday's meltdown loss, Doc Rivers called a timeout to stem a Celtics run. The Bucks then came out of the huddle and executed a play that was pedestrian enough to encapsulate everything wrong with this team right now: The result was bad but the process was worse. Not only did the possession end with a contested elbow fadeaway from Giannis Antetokounmpo (someone who's never been particularly good at hitting contested...