{"id":427042,"date":"2025-02-05T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=427042"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:23:29","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-acquire-kuzma-in-blockbuster-trade-for-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/milwaukee-bucks-acquire-kuzma-in-blockbuster-trade-for-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks acquire Kuzma in blockbuster trade for Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> have acquired <strong>Kyle Kuzma<\/strong> from the <strong>Washington Wizards<\/strong> in exchange for <strong>Khris Middleton<\/strong>, <strong>AJ Johnson<\/strong>, and a <strong>pick swap<\/strong>, per <strong>Shams Charania<\/strong>. Milwaukee also receives <strong>Patrick Baldwin Jr.<\/strong> and <strong>second-round draft compensation<\/strong>. This move solidifies a new <strong>Big 3<\/strong> featuring <strong>Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, <strong>Damian Lillard<\/strong>, and Kuzma, as the Bucks aim to strengthen their title push in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: The Milwaukee Bucks are trading Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson and a pick swap to the Washington Wizards for Kyle Kuzma, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and second-round draft compensation, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hCOzqqqUXE\">pic.twitter.com\/hCOzqqqUXE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1887157913732485366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee forms a new Big 3 with Giannis, Lillard, and Kuzma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-427042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427042"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=427042"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=427042"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=427042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}