The NBA’s first major transaction window for the 2025-26 season opens on December 15.
Bucks coach Doc Rivers says the team is not in a panic to make roster changes.
Superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is eligible to be traded but is under team control through the 2026-27 season.
The first major transaction window for the 2025-26 NBA season opens on Dec. 15, as players who were signed in the offseason as free agents can begin to be traded. The trade deadline is 2 p.m. CT Feb. 5.
The Milwaukee Bucks are currently the last team in the Eastern Conference play-in picture.
Head coach Doc Rivers was asked following practice Dec. 9 if he had been in communication with general manager Jon Horst about potential roster changes to help spark the team.
“We talk every day,” Rivers said. “I’m not going to sit here and tell you what we’re talking about, but we’re not in a panic here. We’re not saying, ‘oh my God we need to change our team’ or anything like that. You can be. We’re not. We’re not at all.”
Here is a look at the Bucks roster and who is now eligible, or ineligible, to be traded beginning Dec. 15 (in alphabetical order):
Trade ineligible
AJ Green
The 26-year-old guard is not able to be traded until the offseason because he signed a 4-year, $45 million contract extension in mid-October. Green has developed into one of the best 3-point shooters in the NBA, and he has made 48.5% of his shots from beyond the arc in 24 games this season.
No-trade clause
Thanasis Antetokounmpo
The 33-year-old forward returned to the Bucks this season on a one-year free agent deal after missing the 2024-25 campaign with a torn Achilles tendon. He has signed multiple contracts with the Bucks since 2019, and by inking another one-year, veteran minimum deal to return to the team, he has an implied no-trade clause in his contract. That means Antetokounmpo must approve any deal that may include him.
Jericho Sims
The Bucks were excited to bring the 27-year-old back as the team’s fourth big man on a one-year deal, and he also received an implied no-trade clause upon his return. It is unlikely the team felt he would play the 30 minutes per game he averaged Dec. 3-6 before Giannis Antetokounmpo’s injuries, Sims recorded five DNP-CD in the first 11 games and played roughly seven minutes per game otherwise. From Nov. 20-Dec. 6 he averaged 5.8 rebounds per game.
Trade eligible
Giannis Antetokounmpo
The 31-year-old superstar is under team control through the 2026-27 season. He has a player option worth $62.7 million in 2027-28, but such options are rarely picked up by players of his stature. He is eligible to sign another extension next October worth $275 million over four additional seasons. Antetokounmpo was in the early MVP conversation by averaging 28.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 6.1 assists but he has now missed nine full games and parts of two others with adductor and calf strains. He may not play again until January with a right calf strain suffered Dec. 3.
Cole Anthony
The 25-year-old backup point guard has been mired in a terrible slump since Nov. 1, seeing his minutes decrease from about 20 per game down to mop-up duty or “did not play, coach’s decisions (DNP-CD).” In 14 games from Nov. 1-26, Anthony averaged nearly as many turnovers (2.6) as shots made (3.0). Once Porter returned, Anthony has been relegated to the deep bench. He bounced back against Boston on Dec. 11 when pressed into duty due to foul trouble by the starting guards, scoring nine points and handing out five assists in 19 minutes.
Amir Coffey
Teased a potential starter depending on certain matchups in the preseason by Rivers, the 28-year-old Coffey has not played much after Nov. 12. In a nine-game stretch from Oct. 28-Nov. 12 when he played 11 minutes per game, he didn’t attempt more than two shots on average and was just 1 of 7 from behind the 3-point line. Rivers had spoken highly of Coffey’s on-ball defense, but even without the injured Taurean Prince available the 6-7 wing has largely been seen in late game situations.
Gary Harris
Signed to a one-year deal with a player option in the offseason, the 31-year-old had seven DNP-CD in the first 10 games of the season and didn’t play much until Giannis Antetokounmpo suffered his first muscle strain Nov. 17. Since, Harris has played about 17 minutes per game. But he’s averaging less than two shots per game and is 2-for-6 from behind the 3-point line in eight games from Nov. 20-Dec. 6. He logged 33 minutes against Boston on Dec. 11, but was 0-for-3 with two assists and a blocked shot.
Andre Jackson Jr.
The team could have waived the 24-year-old in the summer without any penalty but instead pushed his salary guarantee date to the start of the season. Jackson made the roster out of training camp but remains just a deep bench play either due to foul trouble or blowouts. The Bucks hold a team option on Jackson for next season.
Kyle Kuzma
The 30-year-old forward begun the season playing off the bench, and in his first 10 games (he missed one due to an injury) the Bucks were 7-3 as he subbed in for Antetokounmpo. He averaged 13.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 25 minutes per game in that stretch and shot 55.3% overall, with most of his attacks coming at or around the rim. In the last 14 games (including nine starts), however, he’s shooting just 45.7% overall and averaging 12 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists in about 27 minutes per game. Against the Celtics, starting in place of an injured Antetokounmpo, Kuzma scored a season-high 31 points on 13 of 17 shooting (including 11 of 13 in the paint) and pulled down six rebounds.
Kuzma has one year left on his current contract for $20.3 million.
Kevin Porter Jr.
The 25-year-old guard re-signed in the offseason on a 2-year, $10.5 million deal that includes a player option for next season. Porter waived his implied no-trade clause.
Porter began the season as the Bucks’ starting point guard but was injured in the first quarter of the first game, and he missed 19 games with a left ankle sprain and then right knee surgery. In his first five full games from Dec. 1-11, he put all-star level numbers with 25.2 points, 8.0 assists, 5.4 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game while shooting 58% from behind the 3-point line and overall. He is also making 89% of his free throws in that time.
Bobby Portis Jr.
Portis re-signed in the offseason on a 3-year, $44 million deal that includes a player option for 2027-28. The veteran big man is playing his fewest minutes per game (21.9) and therefore is averaging his fewest shots (9.9), points (12.0) and rebounds (5.8) since his first year in Milwaukee in 2020-21. Against the Celtics on Dec. 11, however, he played 26 minutes and recorded his first double-double of the season with 27 points and 10 rebounds.
Taurean Prince
Prince re-signed in the offseason on a 2-year deal, $7.1 million deal that includes a player option. He waived his implied no-trade clause.
Prince had developed into one of the league’s top 3-point shooters in his first year-plus in Milwaukee, but he suffered a herniated disc in his neck that required surgery and he is out indefinitely. He said the surgery was necessary to play again and that is his intent, though he is unsure if that means he’ll be back this season.
Gary Trent Jr.
Trent re-signed in Milwaukee on a 2-year, $7.5 million deal that includes a player option for next season. He waived his implied no-trade clause.
Trent, who will turn 27 in January, has been in and out of the starting lineup this season and is shooting 37% from behind the 3-point line and 39.9% from the field. It is his lowest 3-point number since 2022-23 and lowest overall percentage since his rookie year in 2018-19.
Myles Turner
The premier free agent of the 2025 offseason, Turner signed a 4-year, $108 million deal with the Bucks that includes a player option for 2028-29. On Dec. 15, a 15% trade kicker, or bonus, activates.
The Bucks would have to pay that in any deal, though Turner could waive all or part of it should he choose to. Turner is averaging 12.3 points on 38.2% 3-point shooting and is pulling down 5.6 rebounds per game.
Not eligible until Jan. 15
Ryan Rollins
The 23-year-old guard has been a revelation this season after signing a 3-year, $12 million deal to return to the Bucks. He is averaging over 17 points, six assists and four rebounds per game and is in the conversation for Most Improved Player.
The Jan. 15 date applies only to certain players, specifically if they re-signed using “Bird” or “Early Bird” rights to a deal that is 20% or greater than their previous deal and their team is over the salary cap.