Two-way forward Pete Nance is in the second season of his two-way deal with Milwaukee and has impressed since joining the rotation last month. He\u2019s shooting a bonkers 51% from three on 49 attempts, good for 58.8% from the floor, to go along with solid defense. That\u2019s just five points per game over 25 contests this season, but most Bucks fans have seen enough and want him to be converted to a standard deal. Nance is also approaching his two-way limit of 50 active games: he has nine DNP-CDs, which count as being active, so he can only be active for 16 more, with 27 left on Milwaukee\u2019s schedule. Two-way players also cannot participate in the postseason, including play-in games.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, converting him is not so simple. The Bucks\u2019 standard roster is full with 15 guaranteed contracts, and while they could waive some of their cheaper players and keep the dead money on their books without much issue, some of the best release candidates also have guaranteed money due to them next season. Gary Trent Jr., Gary Harris, and Taurean Prince each have player options for 2026\u201327 for around $3.9m, so if the Bucks were to waive any of them, that option value would be stretched over three further seasons. Meaning another $1.3m on top of the $20\u201321m in stretched salary Milwaukee already owes to Damian Lillard and Vasilije Micic through summer 2029.<\/p>\n
The options that don\u2019t involve stretching are the Bucks\u2019 upcoming free agents: Ousmane Dieng, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Cam Thomas, and Andre Jackson Jr. (who has a $2.4m team option this summer\u2014non-guaranteed salary that wouldn\u2019t require stretching). Ajax is the obvious candidate, given his lack of playing time and lack of familial relations with Milwaukee\u2019s star. But Thomas is actually the cheapest player on the roster now at $845k. If any of these four were waived, they\u2019d be off the books come July 1.<\/p>\n
In this week\u2019s Tuesday Tracker, make a decision on Nance. Leave him on the two-way and manage his games, thus making him ineligible for any playoff action, or convert him now? We also have questions on the Bucks\u2019 projected finish in the East and the Bucks\u2019 first-round pick this summer.<\/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":"Two-way forward Pete Nance is in the second season of his two-way deal with Milwaukee and has impressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622529,"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-622528","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\/116127298021912526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622528","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=622528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}