Bucks News, Transactions and Trade Ideas - 2025 Off-season

[soxperry]

So is there a world where in New Orleans tanks next season, thereby making it possible for us to also tank?

[Wonka]

Trade Doc to hell

[timesofsilver]

San Antonio winning the draft lottery would be best for a potential Giannis trade.

#1 pick Flagg, Vassell, Castle, Sochan, and picks would be the best return from any team imo.

[MikeIsGood]

Fresh reminder that we gave Horst a contract extension a few days ago.

[paulpressey25]

Hey maybe Dame will do the Bucks a solid and just retire. Have Haslem give him a wink wink deal with an understanding he'll make good on the money lost.

A medical retirement allows him to get all his money and we get cap relief. We need GAD to go over all those details again.

Well that would be cool as hell.

Looked it up. If Dame doesn’t play for another year, Bucks can apply for medical retirement one year and one day from today (date of injury). NBA then has a doctor examine/review the file. If they concur, the last year of Dame’s deal is wiped off our cap. Dame still receives all his money.

If Dame doesn’t want to retire, we can apply for a disabled player exception if the league believes Dame is not able to play before June 15, 2026. But there we only get the full MLE to sign one player for no more than one year. Or we can absorb a guy with one year left up to the MLE. We can apply for this after July 1st. But we do pay luxury tax on the money spent on the new acquisition.

[CJTURT]

With all due respect. All the moves we’ve made were to show Giannis we’re throwing in all our chips to try and win another championship.

Bud goes. He didn’t do crap in Phoenix. Griffin was ok but turmoil. So hire a big name in rivers. Trash but trying .

Trade for lilliard who’s a huge name. Dame time blah blah

It’s almost as if we spent more time putting names around our superstar instead of building around him properly through the draft and proper role players that fit him. That’s the biggest mistake.

[CJTURT]

San Antonio winning the draft lottery would be best for a potential Giannis trade.

#1 pick Flagg, Vassell, Castle, Sochan, and picks would be the best return from any team imo.

[drew881]

San Antonio winning the draft lottery would be best for a potential Giannis trade.

#1 pick Flagg, Vassell, Castle, Sochan, and picks would be the best return from any team imo.

They have the Hawks pick too this year. But doubt either hit the lottery. Low chances on both. 6.7 percent chance combined with both picks. They likely will get the 8th and 14th picks.

[TroyD92]

Fresh reminder that we gave Horst a contract extension a few days ago.

Half the board was fine with it too. Bringing back optimist v. realist vibes

[ShootingtheJ]

Theres literally no avenue to retool in the next year or two around Giannis. Let's spitball it. Toss out some scenarios.

After everything he's done for this franchise, why would you even want him to waste away here?

Waive and stretch Dame. Trims $42 million next year, go shopping. The future years hit is inconsequential with the impending cap explosion.

[ShootingtheJ]

Giannis needs role players . Not a superstar per se around him. And a coach with a brain

Ty Jerome and NAW are the 1st 2 that come to mind. Both free agents. NAW is a terrific defender, Jerome the high IQ clutch shooter with primary ball handler skills.

[rilamann]

With all due respect. All the moves we’ve made were to show Giannis we’re throwing in all our chips to try and win another championship.

Bud goes. He didn’t do crap in Phoenix. Griffin was ok but turmoil. So hire a big name in rivers. Trash but trying .

Trade for lilliard who’s a huge name. Dame time blah blah

It’s almost as if we spent more time putting names around our superstar instead of building around him properly through the draft and proper role players that fit him. That’s the biggest mistake.

It's almost like our front office doesn't actually know jack **** about basketball.

Great post

[fansinceforever]

Theres literally no avenue to retool in the next year or two around Giannis. Let's spitball it. Toss out some scenarios.

After everything he's done for this franchise, why would you even want him to waste away here?

Waive and stretch Dame. Trims $42 million next year, go shopping. The future years hit is inconsequential with the impending cap explosion.

And sign who? Julius randle? James Harden? A platter of decent non needle movers?

This is over.

[paulpressey25]

Waive and stretch Dame. Trims $42 million next year, go shopping. The future years hit is inconsequential with the impending cap explosion.

If he won’t retire, worth exploring this. His salary would count only $22.5 million next year, versus the $54.1 he’s owed. So we reduce our payroll by $31.6. We’d be at about $132 million in salary and have about $20 million of cap room to work with.

But we’d have to use some of that to retain Porter and other cap holds. So we really don’t end up with much cash to work with. We’d need Bobby to opt out and move on, to pick up his $13 million additional. Then we’d be at about $35mm of cap space. Who do you target?

Now for the owners, it would be huge financially. They’d get out of the tax in exchange for carrying Dame’s contract for five years at $22.5 million.

[bucksfansince88]

We still have Giannis, but they are literally in a position where they can’t make any mistakes this off season and they need a bit of luck! Id be prioritizing bringing back KPJ, AJ green & Sims and looking to sign and trade Brook and Bobby to find guys that fit better with Giannis long athletic guys that can defend and get out and run. 8-10 month surgery and recovery should have Dame back right before the deadline. If he’s back and shows well enough to trade I’m taking the best offer available to move off that salary

[TroyD92]

Zero chance the owners kick over 100m down the road for a guy who isn’t even on the team lol.

[paulpressey25]

Zero chance the owners kick over 100m down the road for a guy who isn’t even on the team lol.

You’re only kicking $67.5 million down the road for three years. The Bucks will pay approximately $75 million in luxury tax this year alone. It all depends on where they see themselves as a taxpayer the next two years.

[RiotPunch]

Without the ability to trade Dame for parts, I'm just not seeing the avenue to fielding a contending team around Giannis next year. I won't be mad if we keep him, as at least we might see him win another MVP in a Bucks jersey.

[RiotPunch]

But maybe I'm a few beers too deep and in my feelings too much at the moment.

[TroyD92]

Zero chance the owners kick over 100m down the road for a guy who isn’t even on the team lol.

You’re only kicking $67.5 million down the road for three years. The Bucks will pay approximately $75 million in luxury tax this year alone. It all depends on where they see themselves as a taxpayer the next two years.

We’ll see then. I’d give it less than 5% chance of even being considered, but I know who’s running this team