{"id":837947,"date":"2026-08-01T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837947\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:37:10","slug":"5-nba-teams-that-quietly-crushed-the-2026-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837947\/","title":{"rendered":"5 NBA Teams That Quietly Crushed the 2026 Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Despite waiting way too long to do it and failing to produce a real bidding war, the Bucks hauled in a remarkably good return for Giannis Antetokounmpo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The package Milwaukee took back from Miami included Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel&#8217;el Ware, Kasparas Jakucionis, three firsts, a swap and a second\u2014far better than it should have managed, given Antetokounmpo&#8217;s contract status and the dearth of suitors around the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">On top of maximizing their Giannis return, the Bucks also grabbed Summer League standout Brayden Burries at No. 10 in the draft and inked still-intriguing forward Ousmane Dieng to a three-year deal that&#8217;ll top out at a $6.3 million team option in 2028-29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The only noisy part of Milwaukee&#8217;s offseason involved an <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49377882\/nba-investigating-bucks-four-year-deal-gary-trent-jr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">investigation-worthy<\/a> contract for Gary Trent Jr. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">We&#8217;ll see how that one shakes out, but as long as the league doesn&#8217;t dock the Bucks a draft pick for cap circumvention, this will have been a wildly successful summer given the team&#8217;s difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite waiting way too long to do it and failing to produce a real bidding war, the Bucks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-837947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837947","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=837947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}