Live Bar News on June 9th a few days ago, the piston officer xuanmonti Williams became the new coach of the team, while the Bucks hired Adrian Griffin as the coach of the team.
According to a report by stag reporter Gallery Woelfel, several sources revealed that after the team fired Budenholzer, Adrien Griffin (recommended by the letter brother) was not their main target. More specifically, several sources said that the stag had already turned its attention to hiring a successful head coach at that time, and Monty Williams was one of them.
“Monty is a stag,” an executive once commented on Monty Williams, “they gave him an offer-$50 million for 5 years.”
However, Monty rejected the rich quotation from the stag. He wanted to take a year off and pick up pointer, but the boss of the piston, Gores, sent a private plane to Phoenix to pick up Monty in front of the second meeting, therefore, the two sides had deeper contacts. In the end, Monti and the piston reached a 6-year contract of 78.5 million dollars, which included team options in the 7th and 8th years, and the reward clause could eventually reach 0.1 billion dollars.
A source familiar with Monti said that one of the factors that Monti avoided stag might be the composition of rosters. The Bucks won the championship in 2021, but now this team is an aging team, and their window to win the championship again is in danger.
By next season, the three starting players of the Bucks will be 32 years old or older, including Middleton, Zhu holeddy and Dalo. Teaching a team with a high average age may not be Monti’s only concern. Several sources revealed that several potential stag coach candidates expressed serious concern about the uncertainty of brother alphabet and his promise to stay in Milwaukee after the end of his current contract, the Greek star’s contract includes player options for the 2020-26 season.
“Yanis’s long-term future (whether to stay in the bucks or not) is a real problem, which is self-evident,” said another NBA executive.