And that's not all for Milwaukee. To make room for Turner, the Bucks are stretching and waiving Damian Lillard after the star guard tore his Achilles in the playoffs, per ESPN. Lillard, who first joined the Bucks in 2023, is likely to miss all of next season. The Bucks owe him $113 million and will pay it out over the next five years.

The Bucks did return four of their guys in Bobby Portis (three years, $44 million), Gary Trent Jr. (two years, $7.5 million), Kevin Porter Jr (two years, $11 million) and Taurean Prince (two years, $7.1 million), but they also lost longtime center Brook Lopez to the Los Angeles Clippers.

In the wake of the Indiana Pacers' NBA Finals loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, coach Rick Carlisle calls retaining center Myles Turner the team's "No. 1 priority" in free agency. It appears that the loss of Tyrese Haliburton for most,