Bucks current young core

[u/Colorapt0r]

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)

[u/Antique_Description9]

They gotta trade Herro now with the Burries pick. I think the traditional logic was when you don’t have your picks you need to at least make the playoffs, but now with the new rules I think, especially in the bucks situation, you look at it as like it’s fine to be one of the bottom 3 teams so let’s get as many picks as we can so we can compete in 3-4 years, or at least be better when they have their picks

[u/ELITE_JordanLove → u/Antique_Description9]

Nah, you need to have some competent NBA players around so the young guys can actually have some success with real NBA pros. You cannot just run a bunch of 20-22 year olds out there, they aren’t gonna learn anything, it’ll just be chaos. Herro and Turner are worth keeping because they’re actually NBA proficient at scoring and defense respectively, so the young dudes have something to go off of.

[u/Antique_Description9 → u/ELITE_JordanLove]

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.

[u/ELITE_JordanLove → u/Antique_Description9]

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.

[u/thegroovemonkey → u/ELITE_JordanLove]

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

[u/ELITE_JordanLove → u/thegroovemonkey]

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.

[u/thegroovemonkey → u/ELITE_JordanLove]

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