{"id":170535,"date":"2025-07-14T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/170535\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:03:11","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-officially-release-backup-point-guard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/170535\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks officially release backup point guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Bucks made an official announcement regarding backup guard Vasilije Micic. On July 7, the pair agreed to a contract buyout.<\/p>\n<p>Micic was brought from the Hornets to the Bucks as part of the trade that sent Pat Connaughton and two second-round picks to Charlotte. Now, he\u2019ll be a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the buyout, Micic has surveyed his options overseas rather than continue to pursue an NBA career. Micic previously played in the EuroLeague from 2014-23, averaging 13.8 points, 2.4 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game before venturing into NBA.<\/p>\n<p>In the NBA, after initially landing with the Oklahoma City Thunder \u2014 and not being part of the rotation \u2014 Micic landed with the Charlotte Hornets, where over the next season and a half he averaged 9.0 points and 4.7 assists per game in 66 appearances (37 starts).<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/nba-free-agency-2025-offseason-trade-rumors-news\/fnwUjcuMFEqi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Athletic\u2019s Eric Nehm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Athletic\u2019s Eric Nehm<\/a>, the decision was made in connection to the team waiving Damian Lillard in an effort to reduce the Bucks\u2019 cap hit for next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of a buyout, Mici\u0107 agreed to give back $6.1 million, which shrunk the Bucks&#8217; cap hit on his contract from $8.1 million to only $2 million,\u201d Nehm said. \u201c That move enables the Bucks to stretch the contracts of both Lillard and Mici\u0107 and avoid crossing over the stretched money threshold laid out in the NBA&#8217;s collective bargaining agreement. No team is allowed to have more than 15 percent of its salary cap taken up by stretched money, and those two moves would help the Bucks avoid that next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks will now look to get busy on the market after the financial gymnastics they\u2019ve done as they try to build a contender while Giannis Antetokounmpo is still in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks made an official announcement regarding backup guard Vasilije Micic. On July 7, the pair agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,125,123,685,121,6,179,2761,361,10757],"class_list":{"0":"post-170535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-charlottehornets","12":"tag-damian-lillard","13":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","14":"tag-hornets","15":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","18":"tag-pat-connaughton","19":"tag-the-bucks","20":"tag-vasilije-micic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114852908497712876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170535","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=170535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}