The Giannis Antetokounmpo trade to the Miami Heat isn’t official until July 6 so teams won’t be sending out goodbye or welcome messages on social media until then.
And the reported players involved for both teams are quiet on their social media regarding the trade.
But Tyler Herro, one of the four players the Bucks are set to receive back from the Heat, has posted his first message on X since news broke late Monday, June 22.
It was a short post but a phrase that is meaningful to him and highlights that he’s on his way back home.
“414,” he tweeted on Tuesday, June 23.
414, of course, is the area code for Milwaukee County. And Herro needs no tour or introduction around the city when he returns to his hometown.
Herro, who played the first seven seasons of his NBA career with the Heat, grew up in Greenfield, a suburb in Milwaukee County, where he attended Whitnall High School from 2014 through 2018.
As a sophomore, he led the Falcons to the Division 2 state tournament and earned first-team all-state honors his senior year when he averaged 32.9 points and joined the 2,000-point club.
Herro played collegiately at Kentucky for one season before being a first-round pick by the Heat in 2019.
Tyler Herro highlights in the NBA
Herro has had a stellar career and has been part of multiple successful postseason runs. The Heat made the NBA Finals in his first year, defeating the Bucks in the second round in the Orlando Bubble. Herro and the Heat were swept the next season by the Bucks in the playoffs in the first round.
But Herro, Jimmy Butler and Co. got revenge two years later when they upset the top-seeded Bucks on their way to another NBA Finals appearance.
Individually, Herro earned All-Rookie second-team honors in 2020, was the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year in 2022 and in 2025 he became a first-time All-Star and also won the three-point contest during All-Star Weekend.
Former Bucks fan favorite Brandon Jennings, who called Antetokounmpo the “greatest Bucks player ever” on Monday night in an appreciation post on X, welcomed Herro with open arms the next day on social media.
“Welcome Home Tyler Herro,” Jennings wrote. “414 Legend.”
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Who did the Bucks get in the Giannis trade?
In addition to Herro, the Bucks received center Kel’el Ware, small forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. and shooting guard/point guard Kasparas Jakucionis, as well as draft compensation from the Heat. One of the draft picks the Bucks acquired was the Heat’s No. 13 pick in this year’s draft. And they used it to take Tennessee forward Nate Ament on Tuesday, June 23.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Tyler Herro sends out first message on X following trade to Bucks
Reporting by Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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