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After previewing the market for Brook Lopez yesterday, it’s time to gauge your interest in bringing him back, more generally speaking. You can read more about the kind of contract I expect he’ll get here, whether it be from the Bucks or another franchise. But what about just the concept of Lopez returning? He’s sure to get a big pay cut from last year’s $23m, and while he likely won’t get the minimum, what if he did? Since Milwaukee has his Bird rights, the money they’d spend on a new contract for him can’t go to new additions in free agency. Take money out of the equation: do you want him back?
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Speaking of free agent bigs, Jericho Sims is also an unrestricted free agent, and is the only other free agent whom the Bucks also have Bird rights. We’ll have a preview of his market in the coming weeks, but before then, what do you think about re-signing him? Bird rights allow teams to pay their free agents anything up to their max, even though Sims was on a minimum deal last year. Neither he nor Lopez would require the use of a cap exception, so Milwaukee could make the biggest offer, provided one of the few teams with cap space doesn’t want them.
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