Milwaukee Bucks Poll: What are the futures of Cam Thomas and Ousmane Dieng?
The Bucks’ closing two video games earlier than the break have been a coming-out get together for his or her solely deadline commerce acquisition, Ousmane Dieng. A mixed 13/22 from the ground—with 8/14 from deep—leading to 36 factors over 59 minutes, plus 14 boards, 4 blocks, 6 assists, and 0 turnovers. A career-best three-point efficiency in the second Orlando recreation. Certainly one thing to dream about in the years forward.
Those two weren’t a coming-out get together for Cam Thomas, not as a result of he was a meh 5/13 (12 factors) in the OKC win, nor as a result of he took over with a game-high 34 in Orlando the evening earlier than. It’s as a result of that is what the dude does—he apparently introduces himself as “a bucket,” in any case. Well, this Bucket additionally seems to be the spark Milwaukee desperately wants in non-Giannis minutes, and he is likely to be a long-term match with the workforce shifting ahead.
But each guys are free brokers this summer season. Dieng will probably be a restricted free agent if the Bucks lengthen an $8.8m qualifying provide, which means they will match any contract one other workforce presents him with in the offseason. If they refuse that QO (like they did with Ryan Rollins in summer season 2025), he’ll be unrestricted and can signal wherever. But in both case, Milwaukee owns his Bird rights, to allow them to pay him any quantity as much as the max with out worrying about the wage cap, whether or not it is their very own contract provide or one other workforce’s.
With Thomas, nonetheless, the Bucks solely have Non-Bird rights, since he simply modified groups in free company. That means they’d have to make use of an exception to present him a brand new deal in July (since they do not mission to have cap room), and right here are their choices…
In this week’s Tuesday Tracker, let’s sit up for the summer season and decide the Bucks’ best choice with these two: ought to they re-sign them or not? If sure, how? We even have a bonus query about the All-Star recreation format, and of course, the debate between tanking and going for the playoffs.
As at all times, this ballot will probably be open till midnight Central on Friday, and we’ll submit the outcomes later that day. Thanks for voting!
