Report: Milwaukee Bucks to sign Bobby Portis to three-year, $44 million deal

Bobby Portis has been a reliable role player through a decade in the NBA, namely the past half of that career in Milwaukee. That has the franchise now bringing him back for at least two, possibly three, more seasons.

Per ESPN’s Shams Charania on Sunday, Portis will be signing a three-year, $44 million deal for him to stay with the Milwaukee Bucks through at least two seasons until 2027. It comes with a player option, though, that could extend him through 2028.

“Bobby Portis intends to sign a three-year, $44 million contract to return to the Milwaukee Bucks, with a player option for 2027-28, sources tell ESPN,” Charania tweeted this afternoon.

Portis posted similar stats again in what was his fifth season with the Bucks at 13.9 points (46.6% FG, 36.5% 3PT on 1.3 makes), 8.4 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game. However, he, due to injury as well as a lengthy suspension, played in only 49 games this season for Milwaukee. The 25-game suspension was for a violation of the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program for a pill he says he was using as part of his recovery from an issue with his elbow.

Portis has finished in the Top-10 in voting for Sixth Man of the Year three times over five years with the Bucks. That’s with averages of 13.6 points (49.4% FG, 39.7% 3PT on 1.4 makes), 8.3 rebounds, and 1.4 assists for them in 339 games, 240 coming off the bench, since 2020, playing a role for their successes including winning the NBA Finals in 2021. This is why the team has since brought him back twice on multi-year deal with this being his third.

Milwaukee as a whole, though, has other big decisions they need to make ahead of ’25-’26. Giannis Antetokounmpo has been considered as a superstar who could request a trade pending what happens next season for the Bucks coming off three straight seasons of having three different head coaches and of them losing in each in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. Damian Lillard will then likely miss all of next year after tearing his Achilles in April while key players like Brook Lopez, Gary Trent Jr., and Kevin Porter Jr. will be testing free agency. That leaves several players, whether new or young, to have to step up for Milwaukee.

Still, the first key signing is in this offseason for the Bucks. That’s because Portis will be back in Milwaukee for another few seasons pending this signing on the dotted line.