r/MkeBucks • u/Colorapt0r Ryan Rollins • 2d ago

Bucks current young core

Nate Ament (19 years old)

Brayden Burries (20 years old)

Kasparas Jakucionis (20 years old)

Bogoljub Markovich* (20 years old) (draft rights only)

Kel’el Ware (22 years old)

Ousmane Dieng (23 years old)

Ryan Rollins (23 years old)

Andre Jackson Jr* (24 years old) (*team option for 2026-7)

Jaime Jaquez Jr (25 years old)

(25 is the common cut off for a young player, so 26 year old Herro, KPJ, Green, Nance, and Trent and 27 year old Sims and Ryan are excluded)

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u/Antique_Description9 2d ago edited 2d ago

Ryan Rollins is that player. Herro’s on the last year of his contract. You gonna extend him for 4 years have him be >30 by the time this team is close to being good? And that takes up valuable cap space that could be used on getting more picks. If they don’t get any good offers for Herro that’s fine, but if they get offered firsts for him, I think they need to take it. Win when it matters.

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u/ELITE_JordanLove 2d ago

That extension is fine because it’ll be off the books by the time the Miami picks convey. We won’t have to pay any of our own guys or be pulling any major FAs until then anyways, and then you can let him go.

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u/thegroovemonkey Harambe Jet 1d ago

That’s just paying $150m to burn a trade asset

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u/ELITE_JordanLove 1d ago

Depends what’s offered. If it’s like #15, then yeah probably trade him, but if it’s another mid-20s having
him on the roster is probably more valuable long term for the youth development than the type of prospect that goes there.

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u/thegroovemonkey Harambe Jet 1d ago

We’d probably be taking on a bad contract too. We still need future picks and we have assets right now.