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The Milwaukee Bucks continued to reshape their roster, open up their future financial picture and acquire draft assets by agreeing to a deal with the Detroit Pistons on July 7.
The Bucks will send veterans Taurean Prince and Gary Harris, who both opted into one-year, $3.8 million minimum deals for the 2026-27 season, to the Pistons for 32-year-old forward Caris LeVert and two second-round picks in 2027.
The Detroit Free Press of the USA TODAY NETWORK confirmed the details of the trade.
ESPN added the deal is part of a larger, six-team construct that ironically includes Khris Middleton heading back to Washington in a sign-and-trade from the Dallas Mavericks. The Bucks originally dealt Middleton to the Wizards at the 2025 trade deadline.
Milwaukee will take on more money this season by adding LeVert, who is making $14.8 million, but it is a larger expiring contract that now gives the Bucks a whopping $75.5 million in expiring contracts in Tyler Herro ($33 million), Kyle Kuzma ($20.4), LeVert and Kevin Porter Jr. ($5.3).
The flexibility going forward is important, as the team will carry $22.5 million of “dead” money on Damian Lillard’s contract through the 2029-30 season. The team stretched Lillard’s contract over five years last offseason.
The 2027 second-round picks are also valuable, as the team had possessed no picks in next year’s draft due to the 2020 trade for Jrue Holiday and the 2024 trade for Patrick Beverley.
While the value of second-round picks has been diminished in recent seasons because players in that range often head back to college for more lucrative deals, they do remain attractive assets – particularly as trade “sweeteners” to help offload expiring contracts (like the Levert trade itself).
Milwaukee has three future second-round picks after having acquired a 2033 selection from Miami.
More: How the Giannis Antetokounmpo era in Milwaukee came to a bitter end
Moving two players for one also helps clean up some of the roster logjam the Bucksface, as they began July 7 with 17 players following the completion of their trade of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis Jr. to Miami for Herro, Jacquez, Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakučionis.
LeVert is entering his 11th season in the league, and Milwaukee would be his sixth team. Originally the No. 20 pick in the 2016 draft by Indiana (and immediately traded to Brooklyn), LeVert has appeared in 584 total games (223 starts) and is a career 34.4% shooter from behind the 3-point line. He’s also averaged 13.2 points per game in his career.
Last season in Detroit, LeVert played 19.2 minutes per game in 60 appearances (all off the bench) and averaged 7.4 points while shooting 33.3% from behind the 3-point line. LeVert has also played in 38 playoff games for Brooklyn, Cleveland and the Pistons.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bucks acquire Caris LeVert, future draft picks from Pistons
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The Bucks will send veterans Taurean Prince and Gary Harris, who both opted into one-year, $3.8 million minimum deals for the 2026-27 season, to the Pistons for 32-year-old forward Caris LeVert and two second-round picks in 2027.
The Detroit Free Press of the USA TODAY NETWORK confirmed the details of the trade.
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ESPN added the deal is part of a larger, six-team construct that ironically includes Khris Middleton heading back to Washington in a sign-and-trade from the Dallas Mavericks. The Bucks originally dealt Middleton to the Wizards at the 2025 trade deadline.
Milwaukee will take on more money this season by adding LeVert, who is making $14.8 million, but it is a larger expiring contract that now gives the Bucks a whopping $75.5 million in expiring contracts in Tyler Herro ($33 million), Kyle Kuzma ($20.4), LeVert and Kevin Porter Jr. ($5.3).
The flexibility going forward is important, as the team will carry $22.5 million of “dead” money on Damian Lillard’s contract through the 2029-30 season. The team stretched Lillard’s contract over five years last offseason.
The 2027 second-round picks are also valuable, as the team had possessed no picks in next year’s draft due to the 2020 trade for Jrue Holiday and the 2024 trade for Patrick Beverley.
While the value of second-round picks has been diminished in recent seasons because players in that range often head back to college for more lucrative deals, they do remain attractive assets – particularly as trade “sweeteners” to help offload expiring contracts (like the Levert trade itself).
Milwaukee has three future second-round picks after having acquired a 2033 selection from Miami.
More: How the Giannis Antetokounmpo era in Milwaukee came to a bitter end
Moving two players for one also helps clean up some of the roster logjam the Bucksface, as they began July 7 with 17 players following the completion of their trade of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis Jr. to Miami for Herro, Jacquez, Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakučionis.
LeVert is entering his 11th season in the league, and Milwaukee would be his sixth team. Originally the No. 20 pick in the 2016 draft by Indiana (and immediately traded to Brooklyn), LeVert has appeared in 584 total games (223 starts) and is a career 34.4% shooter from behind the 3-point line. He’s also averaged 13.2 points per game in his career.
Last season in Detroit, LeVert played 19.2 minutes per game in 60 appearances (all off the bench) and averaged 7.4 points while shooting 33.3% from behind the 3-point line. LeVert has also played in 38 playoff games for Brooklyn, Cleveland and the Pistons.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bucks acquire Caris LeVert, future draft picks from Pistons
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