{"id":774595,"date":"2026-06-30T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/774595\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:27:14","slug":"eastern-notes-trent-wiggins-traore-haliburton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/774595\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Notes: Trent, Wiggins, Traore, Haliburton"},"content":{"rendered":"

After turning down<\/a> a modest $3.9MM player option for the 2026\/27 season, Gary Trent Jr.<\/a> has gained some traction in talks with the Bucks about a new contract, reports Grant Afseth of Dallas Hoops Journal<\/a>. League sources tell Afseth that a deal in the range of four years and $68MM is one option that has been discussed.<\/p>\n

Those numbers carry some sticker shock, given that Trent has earned the veteran\u2019s minimum or slightly above it during his first two seasons in Milwaukee and is coming off a down year, as his scoring average dropped to 8.1 points per game and his shooting line was just .387\/.360\/.769, well below his career rates.<\/p>\n

While we\u2019ll have to wait to see whether a deal along these lines comes to fruition, it\u2019s worth noting that there was a widespread sense that Trent was taking a discount when he signed with the Bucks for the veteran\u2019s minimum in 2024 and then accepted 20% above the minimum via his Non-Bird rights<\/a> in 2025. Now that Milwaukee holds his Early Bird rights<\/a>, allowing for a more significant raise, the front office may feel compelled to make him whole.<\/p>\n

Still, if Trent\u2019s price tag comes in anywhere close to that figure cited by Afseth, I\u2019m skeptical that the last two or three years of the contract would be guaranteed. With the Bucks projected to be well below the tax line, the goal could be to turn the veteran wing into a mid-sized salary-matching piece for potential in-season trade opportunities.<\/p>\n

We have more from around the Eastern Conference:<\/p>\n

Within a look at what Andrew Wiggins<\/a>\u2018 new contract agreement<\/a> means for the Heat, Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald<\/a> observes that the veteran forward will remain trade-eligible after he tacks on a two-year, $34MM extension to his $30.2MM salary for 2026\/27. However, a league source tells Chiang that Miami\u2019s plan is to keep Wiggins on its roster to open the 2026\/27 season.
\nAccording to Nets general manager Sean Marks, second-year guard Nolan Traore<\/a> recently underwent a scope on his knee and therefore won\u2019t be available to play in the California Classic or Las Vegas Summer Leagues next month, tweets<\/a> Erik Slater of ClutchPoints. The rest of Brooklyn\u2019s five 2025 first-round picks are expected to participate, Slater adds.
\nPacers general manager Chad Buchanan told reporters at his post-draft press conference that Tyrese Haliburton<\/a>\u2018s recovery from an Achilles tear last June remains \u201con schedule\u201d and that the star point guard is \u201canxious to get back,\u201d writes Dustin Dopirak of The Indianapolis Star<\/a>. However, Buchanan is preaching patience with Haliburton, who will be over 15 months removed from playing in an NBA game by the time the preseason begins. \u201cYou\u2019re away from the game for as long as he\u2019ll be away once he steps back on the court, it\u2019s not going to be instantly back to Tyrese,\u201d Buchanan said. \u201cI think we all have to have some grace with him. He knows that\u2019s going to be part of his recovery that, \u2018I\u2019m not going to be myself instantly.\u2019 You may see some ups and downs with him as the season starts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After turning down a modest $3.9MM player option for the 2026\/27 season, Gary Trent Jr. has gained some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[500,7,122,3545,278],"class_list":["post-774595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-basketball","tag-gary-trent-jr","tag-nolan-traore","tag-tyrese-haliburton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116839765974611023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774595","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=774595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}