{"id":159582,"date":"2025-07-10T01:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/159582\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T01:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T01:20:13","slug":"the-bucks-officially-announced-the-return-of-backup-big-man-jericho-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/159582\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bucks officially announced the return of backup big man Jericho Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/bucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> officially announced the re-signing of center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2025\/02\/25\/with-bobby-portis-out-center-jericho-sims-has-chance-to-impact-bucks\/80008395007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jericho Sims;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jericho Sims<\/a> on July 9, as the 26-year-old is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2025\/07\/01\/milwaukee-bucks-resign-center-jericho-sims-2-year-free-agent-deal\/84432210007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:returning on a two-year, veteran minimum deal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">returning on a two-year, veteran minimum deal<\/a>. The second year is a player option.<\/p>\n<p>Sims played 14 games for the Bucks last season after being acquired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Knicks<\/a> at the trade deadline, and he averaged 4.9 points per game. He missed the last four weeks of the regular season due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2025\/03\/17\/milwaukee-bucks-center-jericho-sims-has-surgery-right-thumb-expected-back-for-playoffs\/82481179007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:thumb surgery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">thumb surgery<\/a>, however, but returned for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Milwaukee Bucks center Jericho Sims (00) blocks a shot by Dallas Mavericks forward Naji Marshall (13) during the first half of their game Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"867\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/65a95d1d76578d6ee37dd397bec3fd32.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Bucks center Jericho Sims (00) blocks a shot by Dallas Mavericks forward Naji Marshall (13) during the first half of their game Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>In the postseason Sims played just under 12 minutes per game in all five contests against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Pacers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indiana Pacers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sims was the No. 58 pick by the Knicks in the 2021 draft.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2025\/07\/09\/milwaukee-bucks-officially-announce-return-jericho-sims\/84527303007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bucks officially announce the return of backup big man Jericho Sims;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bucks officially announce the return of backup big man Jericho Sims<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks officially announced the re-signing of center Jericho Sims on July 9, as the 26-year-old is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,126,2762,102,121,3871,6,191,5033],"class_list":{"0":"post-159582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-jericho-sims","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-milwaukeebucks","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-player-option"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114826315569221258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}