{"id":225825,"date":"2025-10-19T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225825\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:53:10","slug":"amir-coffey-to-make-bucks-regular-season-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225825\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Coffey To Make Bucks&#8217; Regular Season Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/coffeam01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amir Coffey<\/a> has survived a roster crunch in Milwaukee, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, who reports (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1979641417585807833\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>) that the veteran wing will make the Bucks\u2018 regular season roster.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-450143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amir-Coffey-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/>A 6\u20197\u2033 guard\/forward, Coffey had spent his entire NBA career with the Clippers prior to becoming an unrestricted free agent this summer. In 72 games last season, the 28-year-old averaged 9.7 points on .471\/.409\/.891 shooting in 24.3 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Coffey appeared in four preseason games with Milwaukee this fall, averaging 3.3 PPG in 11.4 MPG.<\/p>\n<p>Coffey, who is entering his seventh season, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/bucks-signing-amir-coffey-to-training-camp-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed<\/a> a non-guaranteed Exhibit 9 deal with the Bucks in August \u2014 that contract will be converted to a standard non-guaranteed deal.<\/p>\n<p>The news means that the Bucks will likely be waiving either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andre Jackson Jr.<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithty02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Smith<\/a> ahead of the 2025\/26 regular season. Both players are owed guaranteed money \u2014 Jackson has an $800K partial guarantee, while Smith is owed approximately $1.96MM \u2014 so the team technically doesn\u2019t have to release either player for a couple days. Monday is the deadline for teams to set their regular season rosters.<\/p>\n<p>The 36th overall pick of the 2023 draft, former UConn wing Jackson averaged 3.4 points and 2.7 rebounds in 14.6 minutes per game across 67 appearances last season, including 43 starts. Smith, the No. 33 overall pick of last year\u2019s draft, appeared in 23 NBA games as a rookie last season, averaging just 5.3 minutes per night.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Jackson appeared in all four of Milwaukee\u2019s preseason games in 2025, while Smith appeared in two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amir Coffey has survived a roster crunch in Milwaukee, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, who reports (via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[16101,136710,64,63,726,85,72349],"class_list":{"0":"post-225825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-amir-coffey","9":"tag-andre-jackson","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tyler-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}