{"id":806072,"date":"2026-07-16T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806072\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:11:10","slug":"nba-probing-bucks-64m-deal-with-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806072\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA probing Bucks&#8217; $64M deal with Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA is investigating the Milwaukee Bucks&#8217; four-year, $64-million deal with Gary Trent Jr., a league spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2077788587416850733?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trent&#8217;s previous contract with Milwaukee was a two-year deal worth just over $7.5 million. He signed his new contract as a free agent last week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trent Jr. contract timeline <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; July 2024: Signed a 2 year vet minimum with a player option <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; July 2025: Opted out and signed a 2 year non-bird with a player option <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; July 2026: After establishing bird rights, signed a 4 year\/$64M contract with Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly a gray\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeDCpzMSO0\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/FeDCpzMSO0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/2077791495353188835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old averaged 8.1 points per game on 38.7% shooting from the field during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Trent <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/news\/3565582\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nba\/news\/3565582\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> attracted interest from multiple teams and went through potential sign-and-trade scenarios before electing to return to the Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA is investigating the Milwaukee Bucks&#8217; four-year, $64-million deal with Gary Trent Jr., a league spokesperson told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-806072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806072","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=806072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}