SEPTEMBER 2: The Bucks have officially waived Alex Antetokounmpo, per NBA.com’s official transaction log.
The Bucks retain Antetokounmpo’s G League rights and he’ll receive a bonus if he spends at least 60 days with Milwaukee’s G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd. The Athletic’s Eric Nehm first reported that the team would waive Antetokounmpo on Friday.
SEPTEMBER 1: The Bucks have added a third Antetokounmpo brother to their offseason roster, according to RealGM’s official NBA transaction log, which lists Milwaukee as having recently signed Alex Antetokounmpo to a one-year contract.
While terms of the deal aren’t known, it will almost certainly be a non-guaranteed contract, likely with Exhibit 10 language. Such a deal could be converted to a two-way contract or would make Antetokounmpo eligible for a bonus worth up to $75K if he’s waived before the regular season and then spends at least 60 days with the Wisconsin Herd, the Bucks’ G League affiliate.
Antetokounmpo, 22, has played in the G League since going undrafted in 2021. The 6’8″ forward spent the 2021/22 campaign with the Raptors 905, then played in Wisconsin last season. In 32 regular season G League games with the Herd in ’22/23, he averaged 5.8 points and 3.0 rebounds in 22.3 minutes per night, with a subpar shooting line of .372/.247/.559.
Antetokounpmo joins his older brothers Giannis Antetokounmpo and Thanasis Antetokounmpo on the Bucks’ roster, which has now reached its 21-man offseason limit. The club is carrying 15 players on guaranteed deals, three on (presumed) Exhibit 10 contracts, and three on two-way pacts.
To get to 21 players, Milwaukee also officially signed undrafted Gonzaga forward Drew Timme, whose Exhibit 10 agreement with the team was reported back in June.
Timme spent four college seasons at Gonzaga, building an impressive résumé before declaring for the 2023 draft as an early entrant. He was a three-time consensus All-American and won the WCC Player of the Year award in both 2022 and 2023.
In his final year with the Bulldogs, the 6’10” big man averaged 21.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 3.2 assists in 31.5 minutes per game across 37 appearances, making 61.6% of his shots from the floor.
Now sign Kotas!!!
give me back my gnome!
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“Doing Giannis a Solid.”
Anything to Keep Giannis happy
Family reunion I’ll bring the skordalia!
I guess that makes me the ‘Giannis’ of my family! ;) Tim…Tim…Tim…Timme!!!
Giannis: I’m gonna be upset if we don’t win another chip because the roster around me isn’t good enough.
Also Giannis: I insist you sign all my family, including my unborn child(ren) and put them on the regular 15 man roster as a show of your gratitude toward me.
Bucks management: yes sir. Would you like a massage with a happy ending as well? (While thinking ‘how tf are we spozed to win another chip when he’s handcuffing us to the toilet in the handicap stall?)
Tbf if you told them this was the deal before their last championship with him they would take it. Better than waiting another 50 years for a talent as good as him or Kareem.
I have no issue with guys who are open and honest about wanting to win. But it really feels like hes going a bit too far in dictating how he believes it should/needs to happen. And filling the roster with all theae guys he’s either related to or buddies with to appease him may be counterproductive to the goal of winning.
While this move likely doesn’t affect anything much, it does give him every idea that he can dictate the next move, the one after that and so on. When does it stop..? When they don’t win, he blames management and demands a trade. Then it very well could be another 50 years and who’s fault is it? The guy that left, AFTER he made the mess.
Dude…he was the 21st player signed to a non-guaranteed contract. What are you talking about “all these players related to him or close to him?
It’s one brother who’s been on the team for year and is an end of the bench energy guy and this brother who will be back on the Heard to start the season.
This brother signing, in and of itself is nearly irrelevant. But keeping Thanasis around for energy is comical. If they need a cheerleader, he can wear that uniform and perform during timeouts.
And if you really believe those are the only 2 the F.O. has added/acquired/retained over the last few years because they’re close with Giannis you’re fooling yourself.
Don’t be like that. They waived him immediately. It doesn’t affect the team in any way. They wanted him for the herd in GLeague. Additionally Thanasis is a solid 15th guy. I don’t know any better players that would accept being 15th guy on any NBA team. And you want to keep everyone happy on your roster. 15th player SHOULD be that kind of player like Thanasis.
who said he even asked? maybe the bucks are being proactive.
When he was in high school Alex looked like the best of the brothers besides obviously Giannis and could be a nba rotation player someday. Now he looks the worst. That G League shooting line is rough af.
This to me smells more like the Bucks are trying to keep Giannis happy more than Giannis dictating the team around him…
Bucks are trying to keep him happier with their lack of winning moves by spending the minimum slots on his brothers…
Sure they could go after a ring chaser now, but there would be better options for that after the trade deadline…
And waived lol