Myles Turner signs with Bucks, Damian Lillard waived: Report

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The Milwaukee Bucks person shaken up their playing roster successful escaped agency, waiving Damian Lillard and signing centre Myles Turner.

Published On 1 Jul 2025

The Milwaukee Bucks are waiving nine-time All-Star defender Damian Lillard and signing escaped cause centre Myles Turner, ESPN reported connected Tuesday.

The Bucks are stretching the remaining $113m connected Lillard’s declaration implicit the adjacent 5 seasons, per the report, utilizing the “stretch and release” proviso successful the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Lillard is presently recovering from country successful May to repair a torn Achilles tendon.

Turner spent his full 10-year vocation with the Indiana Pacers. He agreed to a four-year, $107m declaration with Milwaukee, per ESPN. The woody reportedly includes a subordinate enactment successful the last play successful 2028-29 and a 15 percent commercialized kicker, a bonus paid to Turner successful the lawsuit he’s traded.

Turner, 29, helped the Pacers scope the NBA Finals this season, losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder successful 7 games. He averaged 15.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks successful 72 starts successful the regular season, and 13.8 points, 4.8 boards and 2.0 blocks successful 23 starts successful the postseason.

The 6’11 (2.11-metre) Turner volition squad up connected the Milwaukee beforehand enactment with erstwhile Most Valuable Player (MVP) Giannis Antetokounmpo for the 2025-26 season, opening successful late-October.

Lillard turns 35 connected July 15 and faces a agelong rehab from the Achilles wounded to instrumentality to apical hoops form. A timeline hasn’t been formally set, but helium volition apt miss a ample chunk of adjacent play and perchance each of it.

He was wounded successful the archetypal 4th of the Bucks’ 129-103 Game 4 nonaccomplishment to the Pacers successful the archetypal circular of the playoffs connected April 27. He missed the archetypal crippled of that bid and the past 14 games successful the regular play with a humor clot successful his calf.

Lillard averaged 24.9 points, 7.1 assists and 4.7 rebounds successful 58 games during his 2nd run with the Bucks. He spent his archetypal 11 seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Lillard owns vocation averages of 25.1 points, 6.7 assists and 4.3 rebounds successful 900 regular-season contests. His 2,804 3-pointers fertile 4th successful NBA history.

Turner leaves Indiana arsenic the franchise’s all-time person successful blocked shots (1,412). He besides ranks sixth successful games (642) and ninth successful full rebounds (4,349).