Milwaukee Bucks Free Agency Primer

At 5 PM Central Time today, NBA teams can “start negotiating with free agents.” I put that in quotation marks because there’s no actual way that teams and players agree on multimillion-dollar contracts so quickly with the onslaught of news that will be reported as soon as the big hand hits twelve, but I digress. Let’s have a look at what the coming days might look like for the Bucks as they shape their roster for 2024–25.

Where does the Bucks’ roster currently stand, salary-wise?

Technically, Milwaukee has only nine players under contract for 2024–25 at the moment, totaling $179.8m. However, they drafted AJ Johnson with the 23rd pick last week and can sign him to his rookie scale deal anytime…