Bucks core letter brother recently filmed the commercial, but also did not forget to take this opportunity to recruit players for the Bucks.
The alphabet brother said: "Big guys, you know when I wasn't a player, I had to do this, I took the money to do this. This is beautiful warm Milwaukee. Have you ever seen a beach in Milwaukee? Very pretty. This is also my professional player recruitment. I'm trying to get some helpers. I have to do what I need to do. ”
Since other players cannot be named publicly, Alphabet Brother cannot say anything to a specific player when recruiting. But apparently, he still hopes to help the Bucks get strong reinforcements. After all, in this league, many strong teams are constantly strengthening, and the original soldiers are sometimes lagging behind and will be beaten.
The Bucks have a good record this season, with 45 wins and 27 losses in third place in the East, behind the Heat, ahead of Philadelphia, which owns Embiid and Harden. After the downturn and ups and downs at the beginning of the season, the Bucks are now performing better and better. With Harden leaving the Nets, Leaving Durant and Harden, the Nets are no longer the number one hit in the East, and the defending champion Bucks have more opportunities to compete for the title.
However, whether Alphabet Brother can recruit good players for the Bucks is doubtful. The reason is that the Bucks' salary space in the next few years will be compressed very tightly.
Alphabet Brother's annual salary will exceed $42 million next season and will continue to rise for the next four seasons. If he executes on the contract option in the summer of 2025, he will be under a contract of more than $50 million for the 2025-26 season. Holliday will also earn more than $32 million a year for the next three seasons. Middleton will make $380 million a year next season, and if the contract option is enforced in the summer of 2023, the contract will exceed $40 million for the 2023-24 season. Even if the contract is not executed, Middleton and the Bucks are bound to sign a bigger, higher contract.
With such a high salary from the Bucks Big Three, it also means that the team's salary space is running out. Coupled with the fact that the Bucks are a typical small-ball city team, the team owners have not been willing to pay high luxury taxes over the years. When they won the title last season, they had only just exceeded the luxury tax trigger line because of the bonus given to Holliday. Although the team owner has previously told Alphabet Brother that he is willing to increase investment to increase the team's chances of winning the championship, it is doubtful how much the Bucks can increase.
Last summer, the Bucks didn't leave Tucker behind because they gave too few contracts. In the end, they're just minor fixes.
Now, even if Alphabet Brother recruits players again, in the absence of big contracts, the Bucks, a small-ball city team, will be difficult to attract big stars to join. They can only rely on the appeal of James, Davis, and Durant and Irving to attract some aging balloon stars like the Lakers and Nets in the past two years. In the end, these players can only be auxiliary roles, and the strength they can contribute is very limited.