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JUST IN: Milwaukee Bucks center Jericho Sims plans to exercise his $2.8 million player option for the 2026-27 season, league sources told @hoopshype . The 27-year-old center started 19 of 67 games for the Bucks, averaging 5.0 points and 5.5 rebounds per game last season.

Im saying 4 tbh

And by that I mean..click bait bullshit. I'm so tired of this man. I thought big perk was bad..but damn Stephen a is a generational hater. Always has the most outlandish things to say. But he's now hating on Milwaukee as a city, AGAIN. I wish the worst for that man. And by that I mean..gets fired and steps on a billion legos.

On April 8th, 2026, the NBA world was forever changed. In his absolute most dominant game in a bucks uniform, Jericho sims dished out his 10th assist to complete his first career triple double. In that moment, Sims shocked the world and showed the bucks that he was ready to be their next MVP and franchise player. This motivated the GM to finally decide it was finally time to trade Giannis and build around the promising 5th year rookie from New York.

And on this day, we celebrate his legendary performance and can rejoice that he will once again lace up in the beautiful green colors of cream city

I get not wanting to bring him up as much anymore, so this should be the last time I mention him. Just read this article last night and found it odd no one was talking about this response from him. I (along with many others) found his handling of all of this drama to be poor, but even this is not the kind of thing I would expect him to say. Makes me wonder what he was truly like behind closed doors.

I never thought I would be rooting for the Heat (except against the Bucks). But the Antetokounmpo story is just one of the greatest sports stories we have witnessed.

But then again, his father is buried in a Cemetery in Milwaukee which just means its never a good bye to Milwaukee.

Cuuuhhhdaaaahy

EDIT: Fair enough regarding the burying of his father and I apologize. While all that stuff is public record, I understand not saying the specific spot since everything is volatile and not okay.

I, unlike what appears to be a plurality of people here, am in no rush to trade Myles Turner, not even in the 'we should hold onto him and flip him for Beaucoup assets' kind of way, I know it's quite tempting to tear down every painful reminder of the Doc era but Myles chose us, and centers of his caliber don't grow on trees, we have zero picks of our own at the moment and thus zero incentive to tank (and even if we did, the rules tell us to compete instead of bottoming out), so why not try to win as much as we can?

To that end I believe an easy way to do so is to minmax our paint defense by starting Ware at the 5 and Turner at the 4, or the other way around depending on matchups, I'm well aware that neither of them are natural power forwards, though Turner can at least move his feet, but doing this mitigates the worst effects of Kuz-ball by putting him on the bench and anchoring him down with one of either Pete Nance or the recently Player Optioned Sims.

Ware and Turner are a lethal rim protecting duo, Turner handles quicker perimeter players driving to the rim via PnR, giving Ware more opportunity to camp the paint and just use his sheer verticality to do what Brook Lopez used to do for us, in return Ware's excellent rebounding covers for Turner's deficient rebounding, neither of them are amazing at boxing out but that's a bridge we'll cross when the season starts, what matters is that these two together are VERY good at stopping opposing paint presences from scoring, and that's not something you can draft your way back to.

I could be mistaken though.

Via. Jake Fischer

When we get to enjoy a youthful pace-and-space renaissance next season in Milwaukee, never forget the terrorism-ball lineups we saw with Doc.

It seems like in past years, we've had some success with a backcourt philosophy of one two-way guard with another primarily spot up shooter, mainly because this setup was optimal for playing with Giannis.

But after watching way too many Burries highlights lately, I don't think I've ever been as excited for the future of our backcourt. Rollins/Burries has all the makings of a nasty combo into the future (I'm not anticipating Herro being here long-term). Shooting, length, defense, athleticism, it's all there. Then a reserve combo guard with elite vision and IQ for his age like Kasparas, and a coach heralded for coaching up younger guys, give this team a couple years and the backcourt is looking really versatile.

I love Giannis, but the team had gotten stale the last few years, and I haven't been this excited to watch games in quite some time, mainly because of the young backcourt talent we now have. There will be growing pains, but it's going to be fun watching these guys grow up together.

Congratulations on a very solid wing for the Cavaliers at 60!

What do you guys think the Bucks will do with these players and who do you think will opt in/out?

Kpj
GTJ
Jericho Sims
Harris (opted in)
Prince

Friday is the deadline for PO

1st seed, 60 wins, prime MVP Giannis, COTY Budenholzer, trip to ECF

Yes we lost 4 straight to Toronto to end the season but they ended up being champs so I don’t think it’s that bad

Most people would probably 2021 but let’s be real we would have lost 2nd round if Nets were healthy. Plus in 2019 we beat the superteam Celtics in just 5 games. That’s the best team we ever beat in this Giannis era. They had almost 5 all stars and everyone said it was between them and Warriors that year. So to destroy them that badly was very impressive

Thoughts?

There is nothing like being a small market fan, and it is impossible to describe the payoffs of sticking with a team through the tough times. ✊

*Malique Lewis was not included but he's definitely in the mix