{"id":777614,"date":"2026-07-04T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/777614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:00:16","slug":"bucks-waive-pete-nance-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/777614\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks waive Pete Nance &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">With the Bucks having 17 rostered players, cuts were going to have to happen at some point, and Pete Nance is the first casualty. Nance was always the most obvious player to cut because of his non-guaranteed $2.5m contract, which would have become guaranteed if they kept him past Saturday. Also, Milwaukee acquired a fair few guys who play his position via the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5185\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Giannis;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Giannis&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis<\/a> trade (Ware, Jaquez, Ament). I should mention that this technically does not proclude the Bucks from signing the big man to another deal, but it feels unlikely, given the aforementioned lack of spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is something of a kick in the guts for many fans, including myself, who really thought Milwaukee had found a diamond in the rough with Nance. The number of times we would remark on Deer Diaries about how he was \u201calways in the right spots\u201d and \u201cdid all the little things\u201d was\u2026 pretty large! After coming to the Bucks late in the 2024-25 season, Nance had a breakout 2025-26 campaign (although his numbers certainly don\u2019t jump off the page), averaging 5.4 PPG and 2.7 RPG on 51.5% from the field and 42.0% from three. Assuming it isn\u2019t with the Bucks, let\u2019s hope he lands somewhere that gives him a real shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Bucks having 17 rostered players, cuts were going to have to happen at some point, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,568,107,194,938,102,121,3871,6,21490,361],"class_list":["post-777614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-getty-images","tag-giannis","tag-houston-rockets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-pete-nance","tag-the-bucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116859477932657797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777614","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=777614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}