And that's not all for Milwaukee. To make room for Turner, the Bucks are stretching and waiving Damian Lillard after the star guard tore his Achilles in the playoffs, per ESPN. Lillard, who first joined the Bucks in 2023, is likely to miss all of next season. The Bucks owe him $113 million and will pay it out over the next five years.

One NBA executive told ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Jamal Collier that the Milwaukee Bucks waiving Damian Lillard turned a "bad situation into a worse one."

On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Bucks pulled off one of the most surprising moves of 2025 NBA free agency when they signed away Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner. But to make enough room to get him on the payroll and not go into salary cap hell, they surprisingly waived future Hall of Famer Damian Lillard.