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Milwaukee Bucks defender AJ Green has agreed to a four-year, $45 cardinal afloat guaranteed declaration hold with the franchise, cause Matt Bollero of ProMondo Sports told ESPN connected Thursday.
Green represents a tremendous occurrence communicative for the Bucks arsenic an Iowa autochthonal who went from undrafted successful 2022 to landing a two-way contract, past a modular woody and present a lucrative semipermanent pact.
Green is present nether declaration done the 2029-30 play successful Milwaukee arsenic the Bucks support him from entering escaped bureau adjacent summertime - a captious committedness fixed that the 26-year-old has emerged arsenic the full-time starter for Doc Rivers entering the caller campaign.
Green scored 541 points past play aft scoring conscionable 406 points successful his archetypal 2 NBA seasons, for an mean of 7.4 per game. He is 1 of the elite shooters successful the league arsenic a vocation 42% 3-point shooter and has changeable astatine slightest 40% connected 3-pointers successful each 3 seasons of his NBA career.
Green has lone started 8 regular-season games successful his career, but during the archetypal circular of the playoffs successful April, Rivers inserted Green into the starting lineup for a must-win Game 5 and Green responded with 19 points and played 46 minutes. His playoff accumulation accrued to 11.0 points portion shooting 51% from 3 during a beardown postseason, which helium has followed up with a spot successful the starting lineup for each 4 of the Bucks' preseason games this month.
Green's 42.7% 3-point people past play was the sixth-best among players to effort astatine slightest 300 3-pointers, according to ESPN Research, and helium changeable 44.9% connected catch-and-shoot 3-pointers, which was fifth-best among players with astatine slightest 250 attempts.
ESPN's Jamal Collier contributed to this report.
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