If the Milwaukee Bucks do trade Giannis Antetokounmpo over the offseason and enter a rebuild phase, they'll once again run smack into their largest self-created problem. On the Game Theory Podcast w/ Sam Vecenie, the host highlighted how last offseason's controversial decision will continue to haunt them:
"We have, if they decide to rebuild, $22 million of dead money on the books for the next four years after this one from the Damian Lillard waive-and-stretch. That $22 million, as we've seen, if you're a rebuilding team, that really hinders you from taking back bad money in contracts to start to accumulate more and more draft capital.