Milwaukee Bucks: Five salary dump destinations for the Bucks
By Ti Windisch
The Milwaukee Bucks could use some breathing room on their cap sheet. These five NBA teams might be able to help.
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. Still, the Bucks will need to do so eventually.
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With all of their meaningful contracts fully guaranteed for next season, the answer is a trade of some sort that dumps salary. Such things are no longer cheap–the Brooklyn Nets took back a former second overall pick in D’Angelo Russell to accept Timofey Mozgov‘s terrible contract.
Unfortunately, Milwaukee is not in a position to refuse paying that price, unless the Bucks would rather pay the luxury tax and be unable to make major roster moves. To see how Milwaukee can escape salary cap hell, let’s look through five teams who could help the Bucks out.