{"id":218865,"date":"2025-10-17T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:43:08","slug":"bucks-rewarded-a-once-undrafted-gem-with-a-new-45-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218865\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks rewarded a once undrafted gem with a new $45 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A.J. Green was already one of the coolest stories in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>&#8216; sharpshooter has the contract to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Bucks signed Green to a four-year extension worth $45 million, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shamscharania\/status\/1978910586256921084?s=46&amp;t=ZVAbS1aWPmvBOMwuEVhw8w\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Green was an undrafted player in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s a crucial piece to a playoff team who will earn eight figures per year.<\/p>\n<p>Green was a star at Northern Iowa, but that&#8217;s not exactly a school that produces NBA stars.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/news\/why-russell-westbrook-signed-sacramento-kings-long-free-agent-wait\/3ddb3906bddab8e5c6f7782b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why Russell Westbrook signed with the Sacramento Kings after a long free agent wait<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t break through right away. Through his first two seasons, Green averaged about 10 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>But this past season, Green played 22.7 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, he averaged 7.4 points per game with 2.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, Green shot a career-high 42.7% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Green has shot better than 40% from 3 in all three of his NBA seasons.<\/p>\n<p>His shooting stroke will be crucial this season after the departure of Damian Lillard. And it&#8217;s too smooth to expect anything less than a lot more makes.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A.J. Green was already one of the coolest stories in the NBA. Now the Milwaukee Bucks&#8216; sharpshooter has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-218865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}