The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the NBA World when they traded away Khris Middleton at the 2025 NBA Trade Deadline. The decision itself to trade away Middleton wasn’t the surprising part, in fact he was rumored to be on the trade block for quite some time.
It was that Milwaukee got Kyle Kuzma from the Washington Wizards in return. Time will tell if this move brought Milwaukee closer to a title.
In the meantime, the former NBA Champion had some words for his former team.
“I Guess They Couldn’t Count On Me” Bucks’ Get Earful From Khris Middleton (Report)
According to Eric Nehm of the Athletic:
From your perspective, did you feel like by the time the playoffs hit in mid-April you would be ready to play at least 30 minutes per game?
Yeah, that was the plan. I can sit here and confidently say that I definitely think by the time the playoffs started, I would be playing 30 minutes. I was close a couple times. We had to back it off, but I was 24, 25, 26 minutes. It’s only four to seven more minutes, somewhere in that range, during playoff time, I think I could handle that, for sure.
Was it frustrating to you that you didn’t get to see that through? You had the ramp-up plan for the postseason, and you didn’t get to see it through. After all you’ve done for the franchise, that had to be frustrating for you.
I’ve had many opportunities. That’s the way I’ve kind of looked at it. My time ran out. Simple as that. I mean, I could say my time could have ran out a long time ago. They held onto me, believed in the potential, believed in the work that they saw. But I think this time, it was just we think a different route is better for our team going forward. And I can’t do nothing but respect that.
They leaned on me in a lot of different ways. Giannis goes down? They counted on me to take them to the next round. Things like that. Giannis is in and out or we need a big shot or we need whatever, they counted on me many times. And I guess they couldn’t count on me.
Here is a look at Middleton’s recent stats:
| Date | Team | Opp | Result | GS | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | 3P | 3PA | 3P% | FT | FTA | FT% | ORB | DRB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | PTS | GmSc | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-21 | WAS | MIL | L, 101-104 | * | 25 | 4 | 10 | .400 | 1 | 4 | .250 | 3 | 3 | 1.000 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8.7 | 0 | |
| 2025-02-02 | MIL | MEM | L, 119-132 | 26 | 7 | 10 | .700 | 4 | 5 | .800 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 16.7 | -6 | ||
| 2025-01-31 | MIL | @ | SAS | L, 118-144 | 23 | 8 | 9 | .889 | 3 | 4 | .750 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 20.2 | -4 | |
| 2025-01-28 | MIL | @ | POR | L, 112-125 | 15 | 0 | 2 | .000 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | -2.6 | -6 | ||
| 2025-01-27 | MIL | @ | UTA | W, 125-110 | 27 | 10 | 13 | .769 | 2 | 5 | .400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 17.7 | 2 |
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