{"id":790768,"date":"2026-07-19T19:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/790768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:09:21","slug":"bucks-notes-burries-lottery-guards-ament-markovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/790768\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks Notes: Burries, Lottery Guards, Ament, Markovic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Arizona guard Brayden Burries<\/a>, whom the Bucks selected 10th overall in the 2026 draft, was one of the top performers at the Las Vegas Summer League, writes Eric Nehm of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burries saved his best for last, as he recorded 27 points, four rebounds, five assists, one steal and one block in 28 minutes in Saturday\u2019s win over Philadelphia. He also converted the game-winning basket, an off-balance left-handed layup through contact (YouTube link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Burries averaged 23.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 2.0 steals and 1.0 block in 27.1 minutes per game across four appearances in Las Vegas, Nehm notes. The 20-year-old posted a .500\/.364\/.667 shooting line and only committed three total turnovers, thriving amid the physicality \u2014 players are permitted 10 fouls before they\u2019re disqualified \u2014 that sometimes throws off young guards in Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see it,\u201d Bucks assistant coach Patrick St. Andrews said of Burries\u2019 composure after his 26-point game against the San Antonio Spurs. \u201cTwo-way player. Obviously, the offense, shot it really well, but the defense as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the cool part is he wants to get better. You can feel it. He\u2019s asking, \u2018I need more individual clips. I need more, especially on the defensive end.\u2019 For a young guy to ask, that kind of stuff is impressive. Speaking up in the locker room, you can feel his maturity for his age, which is super impressive. And then obviously, you see the talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Bucks, all courtesy of Nehm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Burries is one of the new faces of the Bucks as the team embarks on a rebuild after trading Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> to Miami. He told The Athletic he\u2019s \u201cvery thankful\u201d Milwaukee drafted him with the 10th pick and thinks he has a \u201cgreat opportunity\u201d to help the \u201cunderrated\u201d Bucks \u201cshock a lot of people\u201d as a rookie.
\nFive guards \u2014 Darryn Peterson<\/a>, Keaton Wagler<\/a>, Mikel Brown Jr.<\/a>, Darius Acuff Jr.<\/a> and Kingston Flemings<\/a> \u2014 were selected before Burries. Nehm asked the 6\u20194\u2033 guard if he\u2019d be monitoring those players and circling those matchups in 2026\/27. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a competition, but I just compete with myself, honestly,\u201d Burries said. \u201cComparison is the thief of joy. Once you start to focus on other people, that\u2019s when you lose track of what you got going on. But when we play each other, it\u2019s definitely competition. Obviously, I just want to try to be the best version of myself and prove to those teams they should have picked me.\u201d
\nAfter a slow start in Las Vegas, No. 13 pick Nate Ament<\/a> scored in double figures each of his last two games, per Nehm. Although he appears to be more of a project than Burries, that was expected leading up to the draft and the former Tennessee forward is excited to have the support of the team. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s great, honestly. That\u2019s what every kid dreams of,\u201d Ament told The Athletic. \u201cBut also at the same time, with great honor comes great responsibility. If I am one of the faces of Milwaukee, then I\u2019ve got a lot of responsibility. What Giannis did for the city \u2014 the community, the organization, bringing the championship to them \u2014 I want it to be that same type of thing. So, I\u2019m gonna work super hard to build Milwaukee up, the organization and the community, and I\u2019m going to work my butt off to try to bring as many championships as we can.\u201d
\nThe Bucks signed<\/a> Bogoljub Markovic<\/a> to a four-year standard contract on July 1. The Serbian forward, a 2025 second-round pick, showed some promising flashes in Summer League but needs to add strength to his frame and improve his outside shot, Nehm writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Arizona guard Brayden Burries, whom the Bucks selected 10th overall in the 2026 draft, was one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,3520,52247,103,102,121,3871,18339,6],"class_list":["post-790768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bogoljub-markovic","tag-brayden-burries","tag-bucks","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nate-ament","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116948222873001213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790768","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=790768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}