After a few nervous days in which the Bucks agreed to Pete Nance’s non-presidential deal, cut him to 16 on their roster in July – then dropped Kevin Porter Jr. yesterday to bring it down to 15 – the team announced that Nance had signed a second two-way contract to return to Milwaukee for a third season. This will be the last period of twenty years of eligibility for the two.
Why was he nervous for a few days? Well, as we wrote in the last edition I heard them speakby reporting to Nance, the Bucks reportedly risked the real possibility of another team grabbing him on a standard contract – something that Milwaukee couldn’t really offer without taking a significant financial hit. Remember, the Bucks already had to issue one standard contract, which ended up being a KPJ$5.39m deal—which, obviously, they didn’t want to issue two. Cutting Nance was always going to be the “easy way out” because, as I said, the standard contract is non-guaranteed; However, the risk of doing so was so high that Nance’s ability to get in the car was clearly broken.
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Make no mistake: he will be at a crossroads with Nance deal at Buck, Jenkins is not like a crossroads player player. I doubt he even plays with the Wisconsin Herd this year; but I’m betting guys Bogoljub Markovic and Nate Ament will have more time in Oshkosh. Obviously, Horst and team were smart enough to convince Nance to allow him to use the fact that he had another year of eligibility remaining, which saves them from having to sign a deal, but they certainly had conversations about how that contract doesn’t plan for Horst and Co. for him as well as for the time. and in the future I just don’t want to write anything, eh, Jon?
Nance is coming off his best season as a pro, averaging 5.4 PPG, 2.7 RPG, and 1.0 APG, 42.0% from three, in a career-high 15.7 minutes per contest. All three of Milwaukee’s two-way contracts are now occupied.