Milwaukee Bucks: Five Potential Trade Partners To Take A Center

Phoenix Suns

The Phoenix Suns aren’t an ideal trade partner, but they’re currently just above the salary floor, which means the Suns have a ton of cap space to play with. They could easily absorb Greg Monroe or John Henson in exchange for one of several players on the roster.

The Suns could offer any of the following players in a one-for-one swap for either Monroe or Henson: Eric Bledsoe, Brandon Knight, Tyson Chandler, P.J. Tucker and Alex Len. After December 14, Jared Dudley joins that group as well.

Any of those players are real additions to the Bucks that could play. Chandler is too expensive to make sense–why would the Bucks want to get a worse player on nearly the same deal as Henson?–but grabbing Tucker or Len for one of those huge center contracts Milwaukee gave out is essentially a salary dump.

Both of those guys are on expiring deals. Tucker is owed $5.3 million this year, while Len is getting $4.8 million. If Milwaukee so chose, both of them could be gone after the year, saving the Bucks a ton of cash in the process.

The prospect of getting Jared Dudley back is interesting. He just lost his starting spot to Marquese Chriss, and he doesn’t do much on offense in Phoenix. That couldn’t happen until mid-December, but most of the time trades don’t go down in November anyway.