The Milwaukee Bucks have not made any blockbuster moves this summer after an injury-ravaged playoffs last season. However, star guard Damian Lillard will now get to play with his former teammate again.

Free-agent guard Gary Trent Jr. is headed to Milwaukee, via ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

“Free agent G Gary Trent Jr. has agreed on a one-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, Rich Paul and Lucas Newton of
@klutchsports tell ESPN,” Wojnarowski tweeted. “Trent reunites with Damian Lillard and joins a Bucks organization that recruited him hard to chase a title with them.”

Trent spent two-and-a-half seasons with Lillard as a Portland Trail Blazer before getting traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2021. Over six seasons in the NBA, the Duke alum has averaged 14.3 points per game on 42.2% shooting, including a 38.6% clip from deep.

The move spawned a spicy tweet, via Sporting News' Josh Eberley.

“Weird situation with the new financial realities of the NBA but there might be 75 players getting paid more than Gary Trent Jr, who are in fact not better than Gary Trent Jr,” Eberly said.

Milwaukee presumably landed Trent for the veteran minimum, which caps an impressive summer by the team's front office. With the team only able to hand out minimum deals due to salary-cap stress, it still managed to land Trent, Delon Wright, and Taurean Prince.

For Trent's level of service time, the minimum deal is most likely worth $3 million. That's a monumental downgrade from his $18.6 million wage last season, but he made the sacrifice to join a contender.

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The Bucks will be a deeper team this season

Toronto Raptors guard Gary Trent Jr. (33) shoots the ball against the Brooklyn Nets in the second half at Scotiabank Arena.
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Trent will most likely contend with Bobby Portis to be Milwaukee's sixth man next season. Adding Prince and Wright as well, who average 10.1 and seven career points per game, should give the Bucks one of the deeper benches in the league.

Their success, though, will come down to health. Milwaukee proved last season that it can be a major player in the East, even with a mid-season coaching change. The club finished 49-33, one game behind the New York Knicks for the conference's second seed.

However, injuries to both Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo erased any chance the team had against the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the playoffs. While nothing can fully solve the removal of two stars from the lineup, the Bucks' new-look bench will give the team a helping hand if either future Hall-of-Famer misses more time next season.