Milwaukee Bucks: What To Expect From Roy Hibbert, Spencer Hawes

The Milwaukee Bucks added two new players via trade. Here’s what Bucks fans should expect from Roy Hibbert and Spencer Hawes.

The Milwaukee Bucks shocked Bucks Twitter by offloading Miles Plumlee‘s massive contract in a trade with the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday. The biggest reason Milwaukee moved Plumlee was to dump his $50 million in guaranteed salary over this season and the next three.

That alone basically makes this trade a home run, considering how tight the Bucks books are getting with Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s extension, plus potential deals with Jabari Parker and Tony Snell potentially coming up next summer.

Still, the Bucks received two players back for Plumlee. Roy Hibbert and Spencer Hawes are now Bucks, and they’ll be on the roster for the foreseeable future even if the most valuable asset Milwaukee got in the deal was additional cap space in the future.

There weren’t enough minutes for all the big men on the roster before, so it’s doubtful both Hibbert and Hawes will see playing time. Maybe neither of them will. But it’s certainly possible that they’ll get looks, if for no other reason than to boost their value and set up another deal to help shape this roster.

To that end, we’ll go through first Hibbert and then Hawes to see what Bucks fans should expect from each of them, should they get any extended playing time. By first looking through what they’ve done in the past, we can then figure out what these two are likely capable of at this point in their careers.