Someone please come trade for a guard   

Jaime Jaquez and Dieng would play the 3 over Gary Trent or AJ Green.

Didn’t even mention JJJ or KJ

Do they even own their own pick this year? Or are they just going to be atrocious for the love of the game? Of course, with the new lottery rules it doesn’t matter as much as long as you are bottom 10 but not bottom 3

They are going to lose a lot of games, but also have some incredible victories

It’s not tanking if you’re not sitting stars… Plus KPJ gonna average a triple double

That’s gotta be the worst roster in the nba

the celtics if they were good

Unironically a decent roster

Little did we know, he had offers for 30m and he’s actually taking a pay cut.

The hard part is finding one willing to keep their end of the bargain.

You realize there is something you’d have to give up on the front end of this made up deal right? lol

You gonna make minimum wage for 5 years to guarantee $100k for the next 10?

I don’t think it’s dirt, he just represents a lot of guys and weilds that power. Like if the Bucks backed out of this clearly atrocious deal, he’s just gonna say ok no Klutch client is ever signing here again. That’s a significant threat

the better explanation is that its a hand shake deal from when he jioned on the minimum. It would be clear cap circumvention and bucks should lose picks for that if it were the case.

Also shows they will stick to handshake deals to other future free agents

Highly doubt thats the only explanation. And handshake deals arent that reliable for non stars that an org/agency would rely on it.

He tanked his play on purpose anyhow.

There are much better explanations…

yeah. Contract resembles tanking team’s cap filler, but Milwaukee doesn’t own their own picks for a while?

Actually so dumb because we have no chsnce of signing klutch guys either way

He’s double hired

Picks need to be taken away.

Bucks owner isn’t Ballmer. Bet the investigation on this one moves a lot more quickly than Kawhi.

Right should have swung early in free agency to try to set the market somewhat and/or give yourself a little plausible deniability that you completely misread the market.

Make it seem like Timofey Mozgov 2.0 and you would get all these deflections like “if Gary Trent is worth $64M imagine what (better player X) must be worth!”

Interestingly, Gary Trent is the sixth best player on a basketball team

Says a lot about how teams view the likelihood/severity of a cap circumvention penalty. Congrats Silver, you’re a joke.

It’s the sequence of events. He signed for the vet minimum in Milwaukee 2 years ago coming off three very solid seasons in Toronto. Which definitely raised eyebrows but people assumed it was the new CBA squeezing players of Trent’s caliber, a good solid shooting guard without defense or proven playoff level scoring. They also assumed his 40 percent 3pt shooting would help the Bucks maximize Giannis’ championship window. Especially on a cheap contract. So a GREAT deal for the Bucks

But he massively dropped in production in the past two seasons. And now you could make a case he should be playing in Europe. Instead Milwaukee signs him for an INSANE over pay in a crowded backcourt.

It looks like the bucks initially told rich paul let’s pay him less now so we can build more around giannis’ prime and we’ll make it up to him when we have his bird rights.

That’s cap circumvention. You can sign for less if you want. Webenyama just did it. Brunson did it. LeBron might do it. But a team can’t have a handshake agreement to make it up to you regardless of how you play. If you take less and play like shit. Then you’re just worth less money when it’s time to renegotiate. That’s the gamble you take

LeBron isn’t demanding the team he goes to is made worse. At least not if he’s serious about playing meaningful basketball.

Hey Rich

He’s regressed year after year, some players career peaks are early (like before 25). He’s coming off his worst season in 7 years. He’s a poor defender and only shot 39% from the field and 8 PPG and has 0 playmaking ability (even in his prime). After being paid the minimum 2 years in a row, suddenly he gets 4/$64m when no other team would use cap space of full MLE on him. I don’t care either way about DARKO but the deal is sus af and it sure as hell looks like a Joe Smith deal.

Gary Trent seems like he’s 32 to me and that can’t be a good sign. Genuinely shocked to learn he’s 27 lmao

DARKO is just an easy way to concisely show everything else that was already said. Look at any numbers you want or at his play on the court and you’ll see he’s declining. Always possible to have a bounceback at some point but he’s been struggling to get minutes or do the one thing he’s good at on teams that have also been getting worse. That shouldn’t inspire confidence in anybody.

You don’t need advanced stats to see something is off here. He had a bad year and wasn’t that good the year before either. I could understand a 1 year prove it deal around $16m to see if he returns to his previous numbers but not 4 years.