{"id":586020,"date":"2026-02-06T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/586020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:24:19","slug":"nigel-hayes-waived-by-bucks-after-being-traded-to-milwaukee-earlier-in-day-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/586020\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Hayes waived by Bucks after being traded to Milwaukee earlier in day | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE, Wis. &#8212; Nigel Hayes is headed back to Wisconsin. Known as a key piece in Bucky&#8217;s back-to-back Final Four runs, Hayes has been traded to the Milwaukee Bucks today.<\/p>\n<p>After spending the past seven seasons playing overseas, Hayes is getting another opportunity to prove himself in the NBA this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the homecoming, was short lived. Less than 12 hours after acquiring Nigel, the Bucks waived him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE, Wis. &#8212; Nigel Hayes is headed back to Wisconsin. Known as a key piece in Bucky&#8217;s back-to-back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,102,121,3871,6,66,3471],"class_list":{"0":"post-586020","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-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-milwaukeebucks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-wisconsin-badgers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116023202495864870","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586020","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=586020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}