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Brook Lopez

Signed with Bucks – one-year, $3.4 million

Last season, the Milwaukee Bucks were supposed to be the team to threaten LeBron James’ hole on the Eastern Conference. With a lot of defensive struggles, the firing of head coach Jason Kidd and a major lack of ball movement, the Bucks fell to the seven seed in the East and fell to the short-handed Celtics in the first round. But with Mike Budenholzer stepping in as the new head coach, ball movement is sure to be front and center for the Bucks’ offense.

That’s where Brook Lopez steps in.

First things first, Lopez is very coachable. He’s going to do everything he needs to do to be a positive player in Budenholzer’s system. He can stretch the floor to shoot the three, and he can get it done in the post as well. And in a system that revolves around moving the ball, he’s sure to play a key role in that, passing to cutters out of the post, and kicking the rock for corner threes.

He’s not an athletic freak by any means, but Lopez is going to compliment the Bucks’ young players very well, and I expect him to have a very efficient season in Milwaukee.

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