The Milwaukee Bucks are in a tough spot. The Bucks have nearly $110 million in salary already spent for next season. That’s before Tony Snell or any of Milwaukee’s new draftees are added in.
With a salary cap of $99 million, that’s a bad place to be. Re-signing Snell and signing the rookies could have the Bucks paying the luxury tax for a core that’s not really worthy of that cost.
The Bucks need to do something. It doesn’t need to happen right now — luxury tax penalties figure the end-of-year salary, so Milwaukee would have basically until the trade deadline to shed salary.