Six days ago, as anxiety was about as high among the fanbase as I can remember, it became clear the Bucks were not going to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo. This didn\u2019t come as a surprise. It also didn\u2019t come as a surprise that Milwaukee made a move, shipping out unproductive vets Cole Anthony and Amir Coffey, both on expiring contracts, for Ousmane Dieng, a lottery ticket. Even though Milwaukee\u2019s interest in him was long reported, what did come as more of a surprise was signing Cam Thomas to the resulting roster opening.<\/p>\n
It seems more likely we\u2019ll see more of Thomas than former 11th overall pick Dieng, but will we know enough to decide whether they\u2019re part of the Bucks\u2019 future? Thomas is indeed on a minimum contract, and they\u2019ll only have Non-Bird rights on him this summer when he hits unrestricted free agency. That limits Milwaukee to a new contract with a starting salary of up to $3.4m. Otherwise, they\u2019d have to dip into their mid-level or bi-annual exception to keep him. Dieng will be a restricted free agent if the Bucks extend an $8.7m qualifying offer, and can thus match any offer to re-sign him. If they don\u2019t, he\u2019s unrestricted, but either way, they will have Bird rights on him, and their offer can be anything up to the max.<\/p>\n
In this week\u2019s Tuesday-Wednesday Tracker, we want to know how you think the Bucks did at the deadline and what it means for Giannis\u2019 future. We also have a bonus question about a controversial partnership Giannis entered into with a sports betting site. This week is a two-parter, and if you missed it, we asked another question about Giannis and took your opinions on the Thomas signing yesterday<\/a>. We\u2019ll have the results for you this weekend.<\/p>\n As always, this poll will be open until midnight Central on Friday, and we\u2019ll post the results later that day. Thanks for voting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six days ago, as anxiety was about as high among the fanbase as I can remember, it became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,42595,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-597474","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-bucks-polls","11":"tag-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","13":"tag-milwaukeebucks","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116054073564854054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597474","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=597474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}