Folks, it happened. The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed to re-sign free agent guard Gary Trent Jr. to a four-year, $64m deal, per ESPN insider Shams Charania.<\/p>\n
According to Charania, \u201cThe Bucks and Trent\u2019s reps worked through negotiations since the NBA Finals ended in mid-June while also sorting through sign-and-trade possibilities from interested teams over the last week. The sides moved toward completing a new deal together Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The news shouldn\u2019t come as a complete surprise. While reporting broke of Trent declining his player option<\/a> in late June, rumour widely spread that Trent would return to the Bucks<\/a> on the back end of handshake deal that kept him in Milwaukee on a team-friendly contract last season. Needless to say, Bucks fans weren\u2019t particularly enamoured with the idea of giving him one more chance<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is obviously just \u201cthe price of doing business\u201d with Klutch Sports. Though we will never know for sure, it certainly seems this was predetermined after Trent re-signed on another small contract following the 2024-25 season (and a terrific playoff run), presumably to gain Bird rights with the team. The issue is that his 2024-25 performance was clearly an outlier, as he averaged his second-lowest PPG since his second year last season.<\/p>\n Yup, this is a bad contract the moment the ink is dry\u2014and it\u2019s fully guaranteed. Sigh. The roster now sits at 17 standard contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folks, it happened. The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed to re-sign free agent guard Gary Trent Jr. to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[130281,355,99],"class_list":["post-757708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bucks-free-agency","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}