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The Young Bucks will be forced to try and coexist with FTR on Saturday’s “AEW Collision” after they sought a “Money Match” with any opponents or partners.

The Bucks suffered a defeat in their latest attempt to ascertain funds at this past Saturday’s WrestleDream, losing out to the reunited Jurassic Express with $500,000 on the line, having lost their EVP titles at Forbidden Door and thus, in kayfabe, the pay grade they had been used to.Â

During Wednesday night’s “AEW Dynamite” they continued to hustle, hammering on Tony Khan’s office door and demanding he put them in a bout with a sizable purse on the line, adding that they were so desperate they would team with anyone against absolutely anyone.Â

Khan took the bait, booking the Bucks against the four of “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Kevin Knight, “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry, and Luchasaurus, therefore being asked by the Bucks if they were being expected to fight them in a four-on-two situation, and responding by saying they would be teaming with the pair in his office with a prize of $400,000 on the line.

Khan walked off, with FTR leaving his office and revealing themselves as the Bucks’ teammates. Stokely Hathaway joked about their financial situation, giving them a bill and saying they needed it more than them, with Nick Jackson making it clear that they needed the money and would accept the match-up with their arch-rivals.Â

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Matt and Nick Jackson say this is the best the AEW tag team division has ever been.

At AEW WrestleDream, The Young Bucks will face another day one AEW tag team in Jurassic Express†“Jungle†Jack Perry and Luchasaurus. During an interview to promote Saturdayâ€s pay-per-view in St. Louis, The Bucks spoke to Jon Alba for SI.com about the growth of AEWâ€s tag team division.

Nick Jackson said:

“I feel like the division is probably at its strongest right now. Teams like FTR in the mix. Of course you canâ€t leave us out, the OGs of the tag division. I was just looking at the card for the show and a lot of tag matches are in prominent roles. So I feel like the division is pretty strong right now, and thatâ€s crazy to think without FTR and the Young Bucks as the champions, thatâ€s pretty telling how deep it is right now.”

Matt Jackson commented on the newer teams in the division:

“You know whoâ€s really just caught my eye and the rest of the worldâ€s eye, it seems like, is a team like JetSpeed. A team like Brodido, who are the current champions, and they came out of nowhere and itâ€s been so fresh. I think the addition of those two teams specifically has really helped spark the tag division in 2025, and itâ€s really helped us out because itâ€s given us new teams to play with.”

Nick Jackson added, “We joke backstage a lot with the locker room. Weâ€re like, if you donâ€t know how to wrestle in 2025 on Dynamite, you are screwed.”

Matt Jackson added, “Youâ€ve got to be the best in the world, the elite of the elite. Thatâ€s why we originally called this place All Elite Wrestling. It really is. Back to the tag division, itâ€s probably the most elite tag division since the beginning when AEW first started.”

In addition to The Young Bucks vs. Jurassic Express, several other tag team matches are scheduled for Saturdayâ€s WrestleDream pay-per-view. The tag team champions Brody King and Bandido will put the titles on the line against Konosuke Takeshita and Kazuchika Okada, The Hurt Syndicate and The Demand will wrestle in trios action, and FTR vs. JetSpeed is scheduled for the Tailgate Brawl.

The full interview with The Young Bucks is available below:

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AEW was founded on the strength of its tag team division, and two of the company’s founders, The Young Bucks (Matthew and Nicholas Jackson), recently shared their thoughts on the current state of tag team wrestling in AEW. Over the past year, several new teams have emerged as major players in the division, bringing new styles and fresh matchups to the forefront. The multi-time former AEW World Tag Team Champions have taken notice of this influx of new talent and believe it has been a significant positive for the entire roster.

During a recent appearance on The Takedown on SI,Matt and Nick Jackson were asked about the recent changes to the tag team division. Matt Jackson specifically singled out two teams that he believes have made a major impact in 2025.

“You know whoâ€s really just caught my eye and the rest of the worldâ€s eye it seems like, is a team like JetSpeed, a team like Brodido, who are the current champions. They came out of nowhere and it has been so fresh. I think the addition of those two teams specifically have really helped spark the tag division in 2025. Itâ€s really helped us out because itâ€s given us new teams to play with.â€

The teams mentioned have both had a major breakout year. JetSpeed, the duo of “Speedball” Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight, have impressed fans. The current AEW World Tag Team Champions, Brodido, the unique pairing of Brody King and Bandido, captured the championships at the Forbidden Door pay-per-view in August. Their reign has brought a new dynamic to the top of the division.

The Young Bucks are set for a match of their own at the AEW WrestleDream pay-per-view tomorrow night, Saturday, October 18. The brothers will go up against the reunited Jurassic Express (Jack Perry and Luchasaurus).

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Milwaukee Bucks guard AJ Green has agreed to a four-year, $45 million fully guaranteed contract extension with the franchise, agent Matt Bollero of ProMondo Sports told ESPN on Thursday.

Green represents a tremendous success story for the Bucks as an Iowa native who went from undrafted in 2022 to landing a two-way contract, then a standard deal and now a lucrative long-term pact.

Green is now under contract through the 2029-30 season in Milwaukee as the Bucks keep him from entering free agency next summer – a critical commitment given that the 26-year-old has emerged as the full-time starter for Doc Rivers entering the new campaign.

Green scored 541 points last season after scoring just 406 points in his first two NBA seasons, for an average of 7.4 per game. He is one of the elite shooters in the league as a career 42% 3-point shooter and has shot at least 40% on 3-pointers in all three seasons of his NBA career.

Green has only started eight regular-season games in his career, but during the first round of the playoffs in April, Rivers inserted Green into the starting lineup for a must-win Game 5 and Green responded with 19 points and played 46 minutes. His playoff production increased to 11.0 points while shooting 51% from 3 during a strong postseason, which he has followed up with a spot in the starting lineup for all four of the Bucks’ preseason games this month.

Green’s 42.7% 3-point mark last season was the sixth-best among players to attempt at least 300 3-pointers, according to ESPN Research, and he shot 44.9% on catch-and-shoot 3-pointers, which was fifth-best among players with at least 250 attempts.

ESPN’s Jamal Collier contributed to this report.

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Milwaukee Bucks guard AJ Green agreed to a four-year, $45 million, fully-guaranteed extension Thursday, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Green, 26, went undrafted out of Northern Iowa in 2022 and started his NBA career on a two-way contract. He leveled up to a standard deal, and now he’s graduated to an extension that will keep him under contract with the Bucks through the 2029-30 season, per Charania.

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The 6-foot-4 guard averaged 7.4 points in 22.7 minutes per game last season, his third and most productive in the NBA. He notably shot north of 40% from deep for the third year in a row, finishing third on the team with 155 made 3s, behind only Gary Trent Jr. and Damian Lillard.

Trent is back, but the 35-year-old Lillard signed a three-year, $42 million deal with the Portland Trail Blazers after the Bucks waived him at the start of free agency.

Locking up Green on Thursday gives Milwaukee a reliable catch-and-shoot option from beyond the arc for years to come. Green was set to become a free agent next summer.

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Green emerged as a key contributor for the Bucks last season. After scoring a combined 406 points over his first two seasons in the league, he collected 541 points in 73 games of action during the 2024-25 regular season.

He more than doubled his minutes per game from the 2023-24 campaign and turned in six outings with at least 15 points. Green connected on five or more threes in all but one of those performances.

Then, in the Bucks’ lone playoff series — a first-round loss to the eventual Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers — he averaged 11 points and 27 minutes with a 51.4% clip from downtown. He also chipped in 2.8 rebounds and two assists per game.

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Green even got the bump to the starting lineup in a win-or-go-home Game 5, during which he scored a playoff career high of 19 points, albeit in what was ultimately an overtime elimination defeat. He logged 46 minutes and went 6 of 10 from 3-point range in the loss.

Green had been eligible for an extension since July. Now, after starting all four of Milwaukee’s preseason games, he has a new deal heading into his fourth season in the league.

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It’s still up in the air as to whether Being The Elite will be making a full-fledged return.

After a long period of dormancy, the Being The Elite YouTube channel was revived at the end of August. The Young Bucks have continued to post regular content since then but have not made any official announcement as to what their plans for the channel are. Thus far, they have uploaded shorter-form content rather than full episodes.

“Weâ€re playing it by ear,†Matt Jackson told Undisputed in a new interview. “Weâ€ve been very careful not to publicly say itâ€s back officially or even call what weâ€ve aired as episodes. Weâ€re referring to it all as BTE content.

“Itâ€s getting a positive reaction, for sure. We donâ€t want to overpromise, but weâ€re definitely having a lot of fun with it.â€

The channel has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube but has not uploaded a full BTE episode in more than two years. Dating back to the pre-AEW days, the vlog series played an important role in helping The Young Bucks connect with fans and grow their popularity.

AEW’s WrestleDream pay-per-view this Saturday will feature a tag match between The Young Bucks and the newly reunited Jurassic Express. Both teams are AEW originals and former tag champions.

“Itâ€s kind of crazy that AEW has now been around long enough to already have a rich history with acts that feel, in a way, nostalgic,†Matt Jackson said about the matchup. “Jurassic Express just feels warm, fun, and familiar. When their music hits, it just brings out the kid in everyone.â€

Jackson added that the match is happening at a time when he and his brother Nick feel like they’ve found their spark again.

“We have really found that spark again, that love of the game,†he said. “Itâ€s been a year where weâ€ve really dug into our old bag of tricks and gone all out, so it only makes sense to go out there and kill it with two AEW originals. We all take great pride in our matches together.â€

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  Jamal CollierOct 13, 2025, 12:33 PM ET

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The Milwaukee Bucks are signing Alex Antetokounmpo to a two-way contract, Octagon managing director Alex Saratsis told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Monday.

Alex, the youngest of the Antetokounmpo brothers, will join his two older siblings, Giannis and Thanasis, in Milwaukee.

It marks the first time in NBA history that three brothers are signed on active roster contracts with the same team.

Alex Antetokounmpo had been playing in Europe since 2024, following his time in the G League after going undrafted in 2021. He played for the Raptors 905 G League team during the 2021-22 season and also had a stint with Milwaukee’s G league squad from 2022-24.

The Bucks are waiving guard Jamaree Bouyea from a two-way contract to create roster space for Alex, sources told ESPN.

This summer, Giannis helped lead the Greek national team to a bronze medal in the 2025 EuroBasket tournament, an achievement the two-time MVP would call his greatest accomplishment as an athlete. That team also included two of his brothers, Thanasis and Kostas.

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This week, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported that the Milwaukee Bucks and New York Knicks had discussions in August regarding a potential trade for superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, though nothing came to fruition.

But that reportedly caught the attention of a number of teams around the NBA.

“When that report came out, the fact that the Knicks and Bucks had some level of negotiation, as you can imagine some teams checked in with the Bucks. Like, ‘Hey, are you open to negotiations with Giannis?’ And the answer has been a resounding ‘no’ from what I’m told,” ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported Sunday. “So everybody is locked in on this year. And I know Giannis is prepared to try to do the most for the Bucks. No matter what it looks like, how they stack up to the other teams, the Bucks believe with Myles Turner and Giannis and their other returning players that they can be a contender in the East. But there’s no way that this Giannis thing is not gonna come back to the surface.”

It’s hard to imagine the Bucks ever truly entertaining a trade of Antetokounmpo unless he either demands it or it becomes clear that the championship window is closed and a rebuild is in order. Neither scenario has definitively played out to this point.

As Charania reported, the Bucks “insisted to the Knicks that they preferred not to move Antetokounmpo, but those in Milwaukee believe New York did not make a strong enough offer to continue even discussing a trade, league sources said. It’s unclear how the Bucks would have responded to an all-out chase by the Knicks. The multi-week process was described by one source with direct knowledge of the talks as an exclusive negotiating window. New York, for its part, believes the Bucks never were serious about entertaining an Antetokounmpo trade, sources said.”

According to Charania, the Knicks have long hoped to pry Antetokounmpo away from Milwaukee, with league sources believing that if the superstar is to ever leave the Bucks, he would choose the Knicks. For now, that speculated marriage isn’t happening, but if the Bucks start poorly this season, you can bet rumors about a potential Antetokounmpo departure will rev up yet again.

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Talks in August between the Knicks and Bucks about a Giannis Antetokounmpo trade never gained real traction. That shouldnâ€t be a real surprise. If the Bucks are forced to trade one of the five best players walking the face of the earth — and they would only do so if Antetokounmpo demands it — they will want back a massive haul of first-round draft picks and promising young players, two things the Knicks do not have.

One other thing that shouldnâ€t be a surprise out of those talks: Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson was “untouchable in these talks,†something Sam Amick reported at The Athletic. Not only is Brunson an All-NBA player on a favorable contract, but he is also a fan favorite and hero in New York. Trading him would anger the fan base, even if it was for Antetokounmpo.

One of the financially cleanest trade options between the Knicks and Bucks is Brunson and Josh Hart for Antetokounmpo, those salaries come within about $300,000 of each other and work under the salary cap restrictions. Itâ€s also a non-starter for both sides — the Knicks arenâ€t giving up Brunson, while the Bucks want picks and young players to jump-start a rebuild, not veterans. Any eventual Knicks offer likely involves Karl-Anthony Towns and a player such as OG Anunoby or Mikal Bridges (who canâ€t be traded until Feb. 1 and has a massive new contract kicking in).

A mid-season trade of Antetokounmpo and his $54.1 million salary — to the Knicks or any team — is highly unlikely. Things get interesting if Antetokounmpo says he does not intend to sign the four-year, $260 million extension the Bucks can offer next offseason. If that happens, there would be a massive line of teams that would want in on an Antetokounmpo deal and many of them — Houston, San Antonio, Chicago and others — have the young players and picks Milwaukee would be seeking in a deal. Likely the only way Antetokounmpo ends up in New York is if he forces his way there, telling teams he will only sign an extension with the Knicks, and if these other teams trade for him, he will be a rental. Even then, like Toronto did with Kawhi Leonard in 2018, those teams still may be willing to take the gamble.

For now, everyone wants to see how this season plays out. The Knicks rightfully see themselves as a team that can come out of the East. The Bucks want to see what Antetokounmpo and Myles Turner look like together. Houston with Kevin Durant, San Antonio with its young backcourt, and just about every other team wants to see how things look before making a massive move like trading for Antetokounmpo. Which is why itâ€s likely there is no action until next offseason.

Thatâ€s not going to stop the chatter and rumors.

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  Jamal CollierOct 8, 2025, 05:29 PM ET

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On Wednesday, Giannis Antetokounmpo reiterated his commitment to the Milwaukee Bucks as they prepare for the start of the regular season, but also said it would be “human to change his mind” down the line.

Antetokounmpo’s comments came in the wake of a report by ESPN’s Shams Charania earlier this week that the Bucks engaged in trade discussions with the New York Knicks this offseason about a potential deal for the two-time MVP.

Although Antetokounmpo acknowledged that he had not read the report, he again doubled down on his desire to compete for championships — be it in Milwaukee or elsewhere.

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“I’ve said this many times: I want to be in a situation that I can win,” Antetokounmpo said. “I believe in this team. I believe in my teammates. I’m here to lead this team to wherever we can go. It’s definitely going to be hard. We’re going to take it day by day, but I’m here. So all the extra stuff does not matter.

“I’ve communicated with my teammates, communicated with the people I respect and love, that the moment I step on this court or in this facility, I wear this jersey, the rest does not matter. I’m locked into whatever I have in front of me. Now, if in six, seven months I change my mind, I think that’s human, too.”

After missing the beginning of training camp in Milwaukee with an illness, Antetokounmpo rejoined the team this past weekend in Miami before its first preseason game Sunday, although he did not play. The Bucks next host the Pistons on Thursday in Milwaukee.

“I’m locked in,” Antetokounmpo said. “I’m locked in to this team. I’m locked in to these guys, to this group and to this coaching staff and to myself.”

He went on to compare the offseason to a “temptation” period, but now that training camp has started, he’s been off social media and focused on his craft.

“It’s temptation. That starts when the season ends until the season begins,” Antetokounmpo said. “There’s going to be a lot of people that are going to approach me or approach my agent and they’re going to say this is a possibility, that’s a possibility … but at the end of the day, ultimately, I’m going to make a decision. And my decision today is that I’m here and I’m committed to this team.”

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