Milwaukee Bucks renounces and lengthens Damian Lillard’s contract, use the money to sign Myles Turner

Despite expectations, Giannis Antetokounmpo did not require an exchange of Milwaukee in this low season. He sat down, made a trip to South America with his family and waited for his team to make a bold move to bring them back to the mix for the top of the East.

Now, Milwaukee has made such a bold move as we saw in the NBA – e Antetokounmpo is not happy with it.

With an extraordinary move, the Bucks renounced Damian Lillard, lengthening the almost 113 million dollars of all-star remaining on his contract for five years to free space. Lillard is expected to miss more, if not all of the next season while summarizing from a torn Achille suffered in the playoffs. This is a lot of activity that will make Lillard a free agent and involve $ 22.5 million dead money on the salary limit of Milwaukee for each of the next five years (this is the largest stretch of salary in the history of the League). Lillard would have earned $ 51.4 million in the next season (he still gets all the money from his contract).

Milwaukee then used the hood space freed from that move to sign Myles Turner away from the pacer with a four -year contract of $ 107 million, all this broken by Espn’s Shams Charania.

Turner had been central to the Indiana race at the NBA finals, with an average of 15.6 points per game while shooting 39.6% on 3 episodes, as well as adding 6.5 rebounds and two blocks per game. Entering the free agency, Turner said he wanted to return to the Pacer, the only team he has ever played in his 10 -year career. However, he also tried to be paid at the level of other better centers, a figure that starts from $ 25 million per season.

However, the owner of Pacers Herb Simon The fear of the luxury tax (especially after Tyrese’s Haliburton injury) cost them a key player.

This is a punch for the intestine of the fans of Pacers, who have just left the current and unifying race of their team to the NBA finals, just to ensure that Tyrese Haliburton would drop with a torn Achille, and now to start Turner because the property does not spend as a contender, even when they have a final team.

Milwaukee was aggressive in this offseason, spending his money to bring the key players back to his list. The Bucks reiterated the Bobby Portis, and also reported Gary Trent Jr., Taurean Prince and Kevin Porter Jr. The only player who was left to walk was Brook Lopez (for the Clippers), then the Bucks found an update in the center.

If you think that the addition of Turner and the push of the dollars closest to the dispute that headed towards a season falling in the Eastern Conference would have made Happy Antetokounmpo, guessing again. He is a man who appreciates relationships.

Antetokounmpo seems more surprised than anything else.

All this leaves many more questions, starting from “Antetokounmpo is it unhappy enough to ask for an exchange?” Don’t expect me to do it. Antetokounmpo has done what he did in the past this summer: passively pushing the dollars to make daring moves to keep them in dispute. This is how they finished with Lillard in the first place. He cannot do it and then be so bitter on how he united.

Then there is “how do the pacer reconstructed this list now for the return of Haliburton?” And “Which team is he willing to drop a 34 -year -old Damian Lillard who came out of a torn Achille?” This will play for a while.