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Suddenly! It s about to leave the team! The biggest fish appears!
1:25pm, 17 May 2025【Basketball】
The potential biggest fish this summer is here. According to Shams, letters are considering their best place to go, and this is the first time in his career he is open to leaving the Bucks.
This summer, Letters will negotiate with the Bucks' management, and the two sides will discuss the team's future construction and whereabouts. Shams also revealed that since this year's lottery, rumors about Letter trading will come one after another. Then ESPN's other senior reporter, Vincenter, also confirmed the news. He said that the Nets, Pelicans, Rockets and Spurs are currently teams worth paying attention to, and they may chase letters crazy this summer.
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. With the current age + rank of the letter, once he really enters the trading market, it is estimated that more than half of the teams are interested, including playoff teams such as the Warriors, Thunder, Mavericks, and Knicks. So it is also appropriate to say that the biggest fish this summer.
Let's talk about the situation of letters first. He currently has a contract of $175 million for three years, but the last year is the player option, which means that in two years, letters are eligible to become free agents. In the just-concluded playoffs, he averaged 33 points, 15.4 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 4.6 turnovers, 1 steal and 1 block, with a shooting percentage of up to 60.6% + 20%, and a true shooting percentage of 65%. In the regular season, he averaged 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 3.1 turnovers and 1.2 blocks, basically locking in the third + first team of MVP. The letters are still at the peak, and the top five levels of the league are now super big. In contrast, it is the current reality of the collapse of fundamentals of the Bucks.
First is Lillard, who just suffered a torn left Achilles tendon in this year's playoffs and will miss most or even all of the next season's games, and may not make a comeback until 2027. A 35-year-old veteran who suffered such a serious injury will basically ruin his final peak, and his contract of 113 million in the next two years is likely to be unfinished, leaving the Bucks a huge mess.
If Lillard is kept, he will occupy 35% of his salary space and cannot play, which will only further consume the peak of the letters. If the transaction is made, then Lillard will basically become a negative asset, and no one will take over if he doesn't pay it back. The second is Kuzma, the third leader. In the just-concluded playoffs, Kuzma's performance was simply a disaster level, averaging only 5.8 points, 2.2 rebounds, 0.8 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of 34.3% + 20%, and a real shooting percentage of only nearly 38.%.
After playing this season, his annual salary in the next two years is as high as 21.48 million and 19.43 million respectively. Compared with his output and efficiency on the field, this deal is also a waste of money and another negative asset. Furthermore, the team's main players have expired this summer. Daluo, Trent, Portis, Kevin Porter Jr., Prince, and the Bucks will face severe contract renewal problems. Now it is renewal, not renewal, not renewal.
The team's first round pick has been emptied from the two signings of Holiday + Lillard. In the past 8 years, in order to build a top team for letters, they have given away 7 first rounds, 3 first round swaps, and 18 second round picks. The team has no first round pick to use as a trade before 2031. So whether it is from the current lineup depth or the team's reinforcement space, the Bucks are already a stagnant pool and there is basically no possibility of returning to the championship. Staying in the Bucks will only end the final window of the championship.
Considering that there are 2+1 left in the contract for letters, if you force yourself to continue playing, the next two years will be basically the level of the playoffs or first round games, and the team will have to continue to pay huge luxury taxes for this. Instead of this, it is better to take advantage of the high trading value of the letters to send them away as soon as possible, exchange a large amount of reconstruction assets from other teams, and wait for Lillard's contract to be exhausted, which will also release a lot of salary space and accelerate the team's reconstruction process.
So from the moment, the possibility of letters being traded is getting greater and greater. No matter which team finally gets the letters, a new super team will be born.
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