AUGUST 4: Jennings has cleared waivers and is now a free agent, according to the RealGM transactions log.
AUGUST 1: The Bucks have waived reserve point guard Brandon Jennings, reports Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports. As noted previously, Jennings’ $2.22MM salary would have become guaranteed had he remained on the Bucks’ roster past today.
Jennings, 28, signed a two-year contract with the Bucks back in April after completing a couple of ten-day stints. His 2018/19 salary was initially set to become guaranteed if he remained under contract through July 1, but the Bucks pushed his guarantee date back one month to further assess their roster outlook before having to decide whether or not to retain Jennings’ services for the upcoming season.
Because the Bucks signed Jennings to a two-year deal last season, his cap hit to the Bucks for the 2018/19 season was set to be his actual salary of $2.22MM. But, when a player has been in the NBA for three or more seasons and is playing under a one-year, 10-day, or rest-of-season contract at the minimum salary, the team is only charged for the minimum salary of a player with two years of NBA experience.
Accordingly, Milwaukee very well may still decide to bring Jennings back on a new, one-year, minimum-salary contract at some point this offseason, which would end up saving the team about $710K in team salary and cap charges.
The No. 10 overall selection in the 2009 NBA Draft, Jennings has had a relatively successful NBA career so far, averaging 14.1 points and 5.7 assists per game in 555 career contests. However, he saw those numbers slip to 5.2 PPG and 3.1 APG during his 14 games with the Bucks last season.
Wolves should trade Teague for cap relief or a cheap wing. Start Tyus and sign Jennings to back him up with Rose.
Jennings should fire his agent.
He cam in highly rated…never produced!
His numbers from 2009-2015 were pretty good
He averaged 14 points and 5 assists a game while being a more than respectable threat from deep. I wouldn’t call that “never produced”. He was drafted 10th overall (so high expectations, but not crazy high) and it’s not like he turned into a bust. The only players drafted after him that you could argue should’ve been taken ahead of him are Jrue Holiday, Jeff Teague, and Taj Gibson. Maybe you could make an argument for James Johnson or Danny Green but both of them took much longer to produce and weren’t/aren’t guys who were able to carry a team at one point during their careers. Jennings having some issues finding a stable home has more to do with the amount of quality guards (and specifically point guards) in the league than him just being a bad player.
China baby! Didn’t he play there last season? Seems like they are taking anyone except Liangello Ball.
He’s a solid player. I think we cut him more for the roster spot then the talent. Don’t want to cut him in October and pay him
Needed the room. I like the approach the Bucks r taking this offseason. With Giannis and Middleton, they got there 2 main scoring options. Now adding Donte and Connaughton add some shooting.
Can see OKC having a look at this kid, but wouldn’t surprise me if GSW sign him to Vet Min