{"id":861579,"date":"2026-10-17T23:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/861579\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T23:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:48:28","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-waive-pete-nance-johni-broome-and-jake-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/861579\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks Waive Pete Nance, Johni Broome, and Jake Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Milwaukee Bucks have made the first of two moves needed to trim their roster to 15 standard contracts ahead of the 4:00 p.m. CT deadline on October 19, requesting waivers on Pete Nance, Johni Broome, and Jake Stephens. The Bucks announced the news via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/bucks\/news\/milwaukee-bucks-request-waivers-on-pete-nance-johni-broome-and-jake-stephens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">media release<\/a> and also on X:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nance is once again the odd man out, being cut at least in part because of his non-guaranteed contract. On the court, he\u2019d become a fan favourite and solid glue guy who always made the right play. Playing a career-high 47 games (including six starts) last season for Milwaukee, Nance averaged 5.4 PPG, 2.7 RPG, and 1.0 APG on .515\/.420\/.364 splits. His standout performance came in April against the Houston Rockets, where he hit 5\/9 three-pointers on his way to 23 points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While Nance isn\u2019t exactly young and full of upside\u2014he turns 27 in February\u2014he made great strides with the Bucks and was an ideal third-string big, especially as a stretch four. But with so many guaranteed contracts on the team and consolidating trades few and far between, Nance\u2019s time on the standard roster has come to an end. Hopefully, he returns to the team on a two-way deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In addition to waiving Nance, the Bucks have also waived Broome and Stephens. Broome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewhoop.com\/bucks-roster\/77451\/bucks-johni-broome-nba-free-agency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a training camp deal<\/a> with Milwaukee on October 6 and was never really expected to challenge for the regular season roster. He featured in one preseason contest, putting up four points and three rebounds against the Chicago Bulls. Stephens, a 26-year-old 7-footer, signed with the Bucks in September and made two preseason appearances, averaging 1.5 PPG and 1.0 RPG in 5.3 MPG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Bucks now have 16 players on standard contracts, meaning they must still waive another player\u2014or make a two-for-one trade\u2014prior to opening day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks have made the first of two moves needed to trim their roster to 15 standard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,8394,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":["post-861579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-bucks-news","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117458927839535074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861579","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=861579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}