![]() ![]() You can still make a decent starting five out of these seven. Milwaukee only has seven players under contract for next season. Maybe, maybe not.īut again, in reality, they might all be gone. The Bucks gave up a ton of draft capital to get Jae Crowder so you might hope he’d be back. He is scheduled to be the Bucks second highest paid player at just over $40 million next year. Khris Middleton might not want to exercise his player option in the hopes that he could get a two hundred million dollar plus contract extension. Milwaukee appears to have a current $20 million Cap Hold (Bird rights) for him but is that the way to go here? But if Milwaukee feels like he is not even worth 2 million a season he’ll be gone.īrook Lopez is 34 and has an often-injured back. One would think Thanasis would be back because of his relationship to Giannis. On that list, it is a possibility that all of those players could be gone for the 2023-2024 season. Goran Dragic (unrestricted free agent).Meyers Leonard (unrestricted free agent).Thanasis Antetokounmpo (unrestricted free agent).Wesley Matthews (unrestricted free agent).Here is the list of Milwaukee’s pending free agents and some brief notes by some of the guys.Īccording to Sportrac, Middleton has to decide by June 21st if he will accept his $40,000,000 player option.Īccording to Sportrac, Carter has to decide by June 29th if he will accept his $2,200,000 player option. For Milwaukee to make the roster moves they made, and then lose as badly as they lost, major changes should be forthcoming and expected. Instead, their season is over after having lost to the #8 seed Miami Heat 4 games to 1. The franchise was expected and built to be able to compete for an NBA Championship. The end of the season for the Milwaukee Bucks was about as brutal of an end as anyone could have expected. Mandatory Credit: Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports Who are the free agents? ![]() Related: Are the Bucks “Over the Hill”? Miami, Florida, USA Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler (22) drives toward the baseline as Milwaukee Bucks center Brook Lopez (11) defends in the third quarter during game four of the 2023 NBA Playoffs at Kaseya Center. Milwaukee currently only has seven players under contract for the 2023-2024 season. The current CAP number is 124 million per year. The NBA informed teams a few weeks ago that the NBA salary CAP number will go up for the 23-24 season to 134 Million dollars per tram. Of the 30 total NBA teams, only 11 are currently under the ACTIVE CAP number. The good news for Milwaukee is this is a very common thing in the NBA (The ‘Cap’ in the NBA is much more of a suggestion.) That 27 million number does not count any “CAP HOLDS” or the room to be able to re-sign current NBA veterans under ‘Bird Rights’, another unique concept to the NBA alone. ![]() The Bucks currently are $27,000,000 over the ACTIVE NBA Salary Cap.
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