MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - JULY 14 (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
Following their title-winning season, it seemed inevitable that the Milwaukee Bucks would be handing P.J. Tucker a nice extension once 2021 free agency began.
With the team holding his Bird Rights in free agency, they seemed like the clear-cut favorites to keep him. Days before free agency began, general manager Jon Horst discussed how important having those rights to Tucker were, telling the media, “the fact that we have rights on him is valuable, it absolutely played into the calculus of trading for him.