{"id":826382,"date":"2026-08-26T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826382\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:32:13","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-2nd-round-pick-wont-be-in-milwaukee-wtaq-news-talk-97-5-fm-%c2%b7-1360-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826382\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 2nd-round pick won\u2019t be in Milwaukee | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM \u00b7 1360 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(LEARFIELD) \u2013 For the second year in a row a Bucks draft pick is being sent overseas for more experience.<\/p>\n<p>Malique Lewis was taken in the second round of the 2026 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He is headed to Australia after signing a two-year deal with the Cairns Taipans.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports reports that the 21-year-old forward played for the South East Melbourne Phoenix last season, connecting on almost 39 percent of his 3-pointers and averaging seven points and four rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Bogoljub Markovic was taken by Milwaukee in the 2025 draft, then played last season in Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(LEARFIELD) \u2013 For the second year in a row a Bucks draft pick is being sent overseas for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-826382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826382","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=826382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}