Milwaukee Bucks ahead Khris Middleton will make his 2024-25 season debut on the Boston Celtics on Friday evening, his agent, Mike Lindeman, advised ESPN’s Bobby Marks on Thursday.
Milwaukee Bucks ahead Khris Middleton participated in a 5-on-5 follow session Wednesday
Middleton, 33, has been sidelined for the primary quarter of the season after present process surgical procedure on his ankles within the offseason. He participated in a 5-on-5 follow session Wednesday earlier than the Bucks’ 119-104 loss to Atlanta.
In response to The Related Press, Bucks coach Doc Rivers had mentioned Wednesday that Middleton was near enjoying and that he may perceive Middleton feeling annoyed as he missed the primary 21 video games of the season.
Milwaukee Bucks ahead Khris Middleton will make his season debut Friday evening at Boston, sources inform ESPN.
— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) December 5, 2024
“Anyone who desires to play, and Khris is a kind of [guys], they’re annoyed,” Rivers mentioned. “That’s mentally difficult. You see your crew enjoying, and though we’re enjoying properly proper now, I think about once we have been actually struggling and he wasn’t enjoying, that needed to be actually exhausting for him. You wish to assist your crew, and he is aware of he can.”
Per Marks, sources near the Bucks had advised ESPN’s Shams Charania on Nov. 20 that Middleton was medically cleared however that he was nonetheless working towards feeling “bodily able to play.”
Middleton averaged 15.1 factors, 4.7 rebounds, and 5.3 assists final season
Middleton underwent arthroscopic surgical procedures on each ankles in the course of the offseason stemming from accidents suffered in the course of the 2023-24 season.
In 55 video games (all begins) final season, Middleton averaged 15.1 factors, 4.7 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 27 minutes per contest whereas capturing 49.3% from the sector, 38.1% from 3-point vary, and 83.3% on the free throw line.
Throughout Recreation 3 of the 2024 Japanese Convention finals in opposition to the Indiana Pacers, he recorded a playoff career-high 42 factors on 16-of-29 (55.2%) capturing from the ground, 4-of-9 (44.4%) from past the arc, and all six made free throws.
Per Spotrac, Middleton is presently within the second season of the three-year, $93 million deal that he signed with the Bucks final July. He’s making $31.66 million this marketing campaign, and his contract features a $34.01 million participant choice for 2025-26.
The three-time All-Star has till June 29, 2025, to train that choice.
