its why nothing will happen. the players union will push back on this because the league might start to investigate anyone that gets an above market bag

Exactly lmao shit is hilarious, such a long history of horrendous NBA contracts and Trent was so bad it’s literally unbelievable

What exactly happened? I always see people talk about it but don’t know him well enough

Agreed, easier to argue that they’re just that incompetent if he’s playing

What’s dumb is that it didn’t need to get to this point. Everyone knew the Bucks were going to be steaming garbage before the season even started. Just play him and if Jenkins refuses, force him.

By not playing him for whatever reason for the first few weeks, the Bucks were just drawing enormous amounts of suspicion AND screwing themselves

Extend him rn

Gets paid 5 million for each free throw he will make this season.

He just like me fr

The Raptors traded Norman Powell for THIS MF in 2021

Please let him finish the game with 1 point.

Supermax incoming

Smart foul

Hey that’s a season high

Is he hungover? Wtf. He’s a professional basketball player.

I was sooooo glad when the blazers got rid of him years ago … Glorified chucker.

they’re losing them because they were doing everything they could think of to keep Giannis, but still you’re not wrong

And they already don’t have a lot of picks anyway. They’re also dealing with a lot of bad contracts and dead cap money

I don’t think they make the playoffs until 2030. May squeeze a play in but no one wants to play there and you don’t have decent picks

The pick situation is horrendous already. Basically 0 picks as is with how hard they swapped everything (plus Dame’s dead money on top of it). I like their young guys. Ware and Burries look like they have high ceilings, Jakucionis could be good, and Dieng, Ament, and Markovic were highly touted prospects at some point early on (maybe there’s still something there). For a young scrappy team, I believe Taylor Jenkins is a good coach to lead it.

Then to recoup something, Herro, Turner, and AJ Green are all good trade candidates. Herro is an expiring, so we’ll see. I know Turner has been bad so far (and paid too much), but he’s still the prototypical stretch 5 that a lot of teams will be slightly interested in. AJ is on a stellar contract and legitimately an absolutely elite shooter.

Jaquez and Rollins are kind of in between pieces. I don’t know if they should be traded for assets or if they are young enough to keep around. Either way, I think there is value.

So I agree that the Bucks are in a terrible spot. I don’t think they have a true franchise guy right now, and I don’t see how they get one. They have no path toward a good draft pick right now. But I like the majority of the roster and the coach, so that’s something

New Orleans def smaller

Utah is definitely the smallest market

The HC isn’t the one that made the deal. He’s just gonna play who deserves to play

It didn’t really matter. Nobody gets that contract after playing like ass on a vet minimum the year before. Honestly, I admire the Bucks for keeping their word knowing that they would probably get busted for it.

This is also my question. Just play him 20-25 min and it would be a lot easier for them to get out of it. What’s the worst that can happen? Instead of 1-11 they’re 0-12?

Bucks are fully cooperating with the league

Signed on a vet minimum when he was arguably halfway decent to circumvent the cap. Then he played mediocre to bad for those 2 years and received a 4-year deal for $64 million.

Yeah what is the story?

A few years ago, the Bucks signed him to a below-market deal and recently extended him with an above-market deal.

The assumption is that there was an unwritten agreement several years ago, by which GTJ would sign the below-market deal then (and give the Bucks more cap space to sign other players) in exchange for receiving a handsome extension down the road. This is not permitted by the CBA. There aren’t supposed to be any unwritten agreements about future contracts.

There’s zero chance they’d take picks that have been traded. This literally just happened with the Clippers.

They’ll strip the ones they own or are owed, they aren’t going to hurt other teams in the solution. But interesting point, they might get stripped of picks they got from Miami for Giannis, making that trade way less valuable in hindsight

They won’t punish third parties the picks were traded to. We saw it with the clips.

I mean it would never be stripping the owed picks.

Ban them from receiving draft capital in any trade for X years.

strip away picks a few years down the line when they own them outright

Really dude? Lmao

Of course they would strip the next picks they own, not the ones they dont.

Just look at what happened to the clippers picks, they don’t strip the picks that aren’t owned.