Sources: Bucks' Connaughton picks up option

Milwaukee Bucks defender Pat Connaughton has exercised his $9.4 cardinal subordinate enactment for the 2025-26 season, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.

He had a June 24 deadline to marque a determination connected the option.

Connaughton, 32, spent his seventh play with the Bucks past twelvemonth but averaged his fewest minutes since 2016-17 (14.7) and played successful conscionable 41 games.

A second-round draught prime successful 2015, Connaughton signed with the Bucks arsenic a escaped cause successful 2018 aft spending 3 seasons successful Portland. He became a cardinal rotation subordinate for the squad implicit the adjacent respective years and was 1 of the fewer members of the Bucks' 2021 title squad near connected past season's roster.

Connaughton signed a three-year, $28 cardinal woody with Milwaukee successful 2023.