Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton has exercised his $9.4 million participant choice for the 2025-26 season, sources advised ESPN’s Shams Charania.
He had a deadline of Tuesday to decide on the choice.
Connaughton, 32, spent his seventh season with the Bucks final yr however averaged his fewest minutes since 2016-17 (14.7) and performed in simply 41 video games.
A second-round draft choose in 2015, Connaughton signed with the Bucks as a free agent in 2018 after spending three seasons in Portland. He grew to become a key rotation participant for the workforce over the following a number of years and was one of many few members of the Bucks’ 2021 championship workforce left on final season’s roster.
Connaughton signed a three-year, $28 million take care of Milwaukee in 2023.