Were the Bucks right to bring in Gary Harris and bring back Taurean Prince?
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Obviously, the flashy move last week the Bucks made to bring in Myles Turner got all the headlines, but the evening before and also barely an hour after that move, two more marginal players became rostered by Milwaukee for 2025–26. One of them is a return, and the other comes from several years in Orlando. Let’s look at each one individually first.
Taurean Prince was one of the league’s best three-point shooters in the regular season and has a reputation of quality three-and-D play. If you ask most, he was more on the front side of that label last year: he wasn’t a true negative on defense last year, but to say he was the stopper Milwaukee needed would also be wrong. Still, on a minimum contract, Milwaukee got great value, at least in the regular season. Like a few other current and former Bucks, he was ill-suited for the Pacers matchup. That’s why it was met with some surprise and derision that the 31-year-old will return for at least another year on another minimum, with a player option for 2026–27.
Another guy who got that option (along with literally every other free agent the Bucks signed this offseason) is former Magic guard Gary Harris. Like Prince, Harris has a long track as a great three-and-D wing, but both have really fallen off in recent seasons. The soon-to-be-31-year-old shot just 35.6% from deep last year, his lowest success rate since 2021 when he came over from Denver. He missed 34 games last season and three years ago, sandwiched around a 54-game season as his role started to decrease in Orlando. I don’t see how you can look at what Harris does and think he’s better at anything than Gary Trent Jr. and AJ Green, so this might just be injury insurance for either.
Nevertheless, let’s turn it over to you: were you in favor of either move, even on a minimum? Should that money and those roster spots be going to others?