12:27pm: Milwaukee has officially signed Monroe to a 10-day deal, the team announced in a press release.
8:10am: The Bucks have agreed to a 10-day contract with veteran center Greg Monroe, Michael Scotto of HoopsHype tweets.
Milwaukee has an open roster and don’t have anyone in protocols, so it appears it’ll be a standard 10-day deal.
According to Scotto, Monroe had multiple 10-day offers before choosing the defending champions. Monroe signed 10-day contracts with the Timberwolves and Wizards under the hardship exception earlier this season and appeared in five games. He averaged 5.6 PPG, 6.2 RPG and 2.4 APG in 16.2 MPG.
Prior to this season, Monroe hadn’t appeared in an NBA game since the 2018/19 campaign. In 637 career games, Monroe has averaged 13.1 PPG, 8.3 RPG and 2.1 APG. Monroe began his career with Detroit after being drafted in the 2010 lottery.
This is his second stint with Milwaukee. He appeared in 165 games with the Bucks from 2015-17.
Brook Lopez hasn’t played since the season opener and underwent back surgery in early December. Bobby Portis and Giannis Antetokounmpo have played out of position in his absence.
Can you trade a player on a 10 day contract?
Hopefully not. The Lakers might give a first round pick.
Why would you trade for somebody on a 10-day contract? Just sign them in 10 days.
Salary matching
No.
Why let Cousins go if this is true?
Because Cousins doesn’t have anything left.
And Monroe does?
Monroe’s problem is he never did. He’s still young and hasn’t ever been injured.
He was ALWAYS terrible and the biggest FA move in Bucks’ history was a sham because he is one of the worst players in NBA history.
Boogie was, however, absolutely awful if you saw the games.
I hate to tell you bro, but Greg Monro is not “one of the worst players in NBA history”
Only members of his family think so.
Or people like you who know nothing about basketball. He’s one of the greatest stiffs of all time. Unathletic. Slow. No quickness. No moves. No D.
And he ludicrously YELLED ‘And One’ at the top of his lungs EVERY TIME he shot the ball.
Anyone who believes they are fouled on every play has no talent at all.
‘Anyone who believes they are fouled on every play has no talent at all.’
So you’re saying better than half of all nba players have no talent? Cool
Obviously you’ve never been to a game.
Only about 1 in 20 players are that stupid.
And Monroe is one of them. You’re mixing up 5% with 50%, like most math illiterates.
(but half the guys in the league DO suck, since a roster is 15 players and most rotations are 8; we just never see those guys play or yell ‘and one’ and certainly the top 8 on any team NEVER yell it)
You don’t hear it from ANYONE currently on the Bucks.
See these are the genius insights that only the internet can elicit. Rants are not an argument.
Career .514 FG%, career 8.3 reb, 13.1 pts
That’s better than 50% of NBA players. Go yell that …..
Should have kept Boogie he was a sold back up center to Bobby.
*Solid
He played very well
Despite what appeared to be good numbers and a gaudy PER, Boogie was flat out terrible.
He was simply bad for the first 7 games and was equally bad in 3 of his last 10 with the Bucks.
He looked like he needed a walker out there, barely able to shove the ball up toward the hoop when he got O REBS that used to be monster dunks (and he artificially increased his total REBs by missing a lot and getting an extra O REB like Moses Malone used to).
He was even worse on D, completely unable to guard anyone or take part in the drop scheme because he can barely move. The ONLY reason he got D REBs is because he’s as big as a mountain and nobody could sneak around him to grab one (Bucks or opponents). It was not because he could move and knows how to box out, because he always relied on athleticism early in his career and not proper fundamentals like boxing out (which is why he was a failure and got hurt so often for not playing the game right).
I saw every one of his games and he was awful. He’s been even worse in DEN statistically and I’m glad I haven’t seen any of those.
He’s done.
I think you hit the nail on the head Spike with unable to operate under their drop scheme on D … Think it was just that simple… I saw it as well
Mil has a scheme on D and if you can’t fit in you will stick out (enough to know in even 10 days)
Spoken like someone who only looked at stats–which were horrible in fully 10 of the 17 games he played with the Bucks–and didn’t see just how bad he looked in every single game. He has nothing left and has been even worse in DEN.
It wasn’t about cash. He cost almost nothing. It wasn’t even about keeping a roster spot open.
He was flat out terrible and not even close to solid, and got at least 2 OREBs a game off his own misses, padding stats like Moses Malone.
He needs a walker.
@Spike The GM even said it was tough to move on from I watched a lot of bucks games majority and the Bucks really miss him his leadership and energy they kind of fell apart without. The fans loved him and he is better than there current back up center Sandro he does a lot more. If I was just looking and saying he was good based off the stats I wouldn’t have said he was playing good because his stats are bad. He is a solid back up center 15 minutes a guy off the bench he still had a lot left yeah even after all those injuries I get his defense is bad but the bucks did a pretty good job of hiding him. he has a lot more left than Greg Monroe and is for sure better than Sandro.
If you rely on energy and need ‘fan favorites’ to stir up the crowd, you are not a self motivated self starter and should probably give up on basketball and life.
I saw every game. It looked so ugly to see the little production he produced. He’s bad now. He’s even worse in DEN. He’s finished.
His PER was very good with the Bucks (well just slightly above league average).
Those so called intangibles are meaningless. Players are paid to play and I’m sure his former teammates don’t care at all (or has the world forgotten he was an arrogant narcissist and cancer in the locker room in Sacramento all those years, and they couldn’t trade someone with generational talent because NBA GMs were too smart to want a guy like that?).
He’s humble now, but only because injury reminded him he’s mortal, something he never realized before.
And now he’s just bad.
Sandro is actually showing more BB IQ than Cousins and Monroe EVER did combined in their entire failed careers. Once the game slows down for him he may be just like a Nurkic. He’s played well recently.
That was just the GM being polite and playing politics. Have you ever heard anyone who cut a player say that he was awful and they were glad to get rid of him?
Even the Kings, who hated him, couldn’t trade him when his value was high and didn’t bad mouth him after he was gone.
What sort of moron believes anything said by the news media or its talking heads in sports is sincere?
You should learn to write. That was utterly incoherent.
The Bucks didn’t ‘fall apart’ after he was gone. They have just been slightly mediocre and it has far more to do with turnovers and Middleton WAY underperforming his contract at the moment.
He’s the one they should trade.
For Simmons.
Oh dear god no, not the worse C in NBA history again.
Didn’t the Bucks learn their lesson the first time?
Time for you to do some research.
On NBA centers as well as the English language.
Said the guy who just wrote a sentence fragment without a verb.
I saw him play. That was enough.
Peace gentlemen, love is the answer. I am not sure I remember the question, but I am still pretty sure that love is the answer.
why tf didn’t we just keep boogie smfh
Monroe did have a low motor. And his D was not always there. And that should never be case for a big. Especially a center. You have to wonder why teams couldn’t get the best from him. He obviously has the talent and stats to prove it.