Bucks All-Star forward Khris Middleton underwent surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left wrist in early July and is expected to be fully recovered near the start of the regular season, ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Adrian Wojnarowski report (Twitter link).
This is a different injury than the one that kept Middleton out of all but two postseason games. He suffered a sprained MCL in his left knee during Game 2 of the opening round against the Bulls.
The wrist injury dates back to March when he missed some games due to soreness in his left wrist.
Middleton averaged 20.1 PPG, 5.4 RPG and 5.4 APG in 66 games during the regular season. Middleton is in the midst of a five-year, $177.5MM contract that runs through the 2023/24 season. He’ll make $37,948,276 next season.
Man. That’s a lot of money.
Still remember when he said “its good hard foul”…
Middleton is worth every penny. They don’t win that championship without his clutch scoring. They missed his scoring this past post season and lost.
He’s definitely clutch
Due to the way the salary cap works and that u can go over to sign ur own players it was smart fornthe bucks to sign kris cause they could get no one else. But to say a player who is only a border line all star- not even all nba third team level or top 20 in the legue level-is worth 37 million is absurd. If unasked a gm would they want middletons contract all would say no. As i said it was smart for the bucks to sign him cause of the way the cap works but kris is not a top nba player by a long shot