Marc J. Spears: NBA Africa Game 2018, the NBA’s third game in Africa, will take place Aug. 4 in Pretoria, South Africa. Joel Embiid, Serge Ibaka, DeMar DeRozan, Harrison Barnes, Danilo Gallinari, Rudy Gay, Khris Middleton and Hassan Whiteside among the players scheduled to take part.
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Position: F
Born: 08/12/91
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:210 lbs. / 95.3 kg.
Salary: $14,100,000
Born: 08/12/91
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:210 lbs. / 95.3 kg.
Salary: $14,100,000
“It’s a great honor,” Middleton said of being a part of the breakfast. “The front office and the owners, they have a lot of confidence in me. They want me to be there long-term. They brought it to my attention that they wanted me to be a part of the process. That’s a huge thing for me. It makes me feel comfortable. It makes me want to be there longer.” Middleton is owed $13 million next season and has a $13 million player option for the 2019-20 season.
“Right now I’m just going to play out my contract,” Middleton said when asked about his future. “I’m not going to put any pressure on myself or think about opportunities that could come up sooner. The way I got to where I am today is taking one day at a time and focusing on my game. Everything will take care of itself once you win also with that. That’s all I’m really worried about. “It’s great. The fans love us. We get love all over the city, which is great. During the playoffs, it was one of the hardest places to play in. It was loud. Fans were intense. To be a Milwaukee Buck, it’s a great feeling. It’s a unique feeling. It’s a small-city market, but when you live there and you play there every night you realize how much you mean to that city and how much you can do to impact people’s lives around there.”
Brown, who played in the Bucks’ game against the Nets later that night, declined to discuss the incident at the time and deemed it a personal issue. But his teammates and coaches knew different, Bucks forward Khris Middleton told The Crossover on Wednesday. “We saw him the day after the incident at practice,” Middleton said. “We saw the bruises and marks on his face and cuts on him. He explained briefly what happened, but at that time he just wanted to keep it private so we respected that.”
Asked if he will support his teammate’s future plans to address police brutality, Middleton said he expects the entire team to get behind Brown. “For sure we’re going to rally around him,” Middleton said. “He’s our brother, he’s our teammate. We’re going to be there for him.”
One of the final steps was a meeting between Budenholzer and the team’s top two players under contract for next season — Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton. That meeting took place early on Wednesday at an undisclosed dining establishment in Milwaukee.
