3 Possible buyout candidates the Milwaukee Bucks should avoid

With the NBA trade deadline ending last week, we now look forward to the buyout season where teams will add one more piece to compete for a championship. The Milwaukee Bucks will be one of those teams on the buyout market.

Milwaukee has been an active team in the buyout market adding De’Andre Bembry and Jevon Carter last season, Jeff Teague in 2021, and Marvin Williams in 2020.

Milwaukee has two open roster spots, one of which may go to Sandro Mamukelashvili. The Bucks will be in the market for another wing or a backup point guard. They will have options to choose from. I will choose three players from those options who the Bucks should not go after in the buyout market.

3 Possible buyout candidates the Milwaukee Bucks should avoid – Derrick Rose

I’ve gone back and forth on this, but Derrick Rose wouldn’t be a good fit for the Bucks.

Watching a player like Derrick Rose early in his career be so electric and jaw-dropping, there’s a part of you as a fan that hopes he can recapture the player he once was, but it will never happen. An injury to his ACL in 2012 robbed him of his athleticism, and he was never the same player. This makes it interesting that Milwaukee was interested in trading for him before last week’s deadline, per Marc Stein.

Rose hasn’t played since December 31 against Houston and lost his starting spot to second-year guard Miles McBride. It wouldn’t make sense for Milwaukee to take a chance on a guy who hasn’t played this calendar year, and it would be a similar spot with Jae Crowder. Both guys haven’t played in 2023, but Crowder would provide more value to Milwaukee than Rose.

Rose was never a good defender and shoots a dreadful 31 percent from three. So a liability on both ends of the floor is not what Milwaukee needs, and while it’s fun to imagine Derrick Rose recapturing his fountain of youth, it won’t happen in Milwaukee.

Rose has not officially hit the buyout market, but if he does, the Bucks should stay away.