{"id":7463,"date":"2017-06-21T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T22:01:56","slug":"greg-monroe-exercises-option-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/06\/21\/greg-monroe-exercises-option-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Greg Monroe Exercises Option to Remain With Milwaukee Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks forward\/center\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/monrogr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Monroe<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has exercised his $17.88 million player option for the 2017-18 season, meaning that he will remain with the team for at least one more year. Monroe will become an unrestricted free agent in the 2018 off-season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shams Charania<\/strong> of <em>The Vertical<\/em> broke the news Wednesday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Milwaukee Bucks center Greg Monroe  plans to opt-in on his 2017-18 deal for $17.88 million, league sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/877484459259551744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Greg Monroe Exercises Option to Remain With Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Monroe originally signed his three-year, $50 million contract with the Bucks back in July 2015. Now that he&#8217;s picked up his option, the final year of his deal will pay him $17.88 million.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe averaged 11.7 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game last season for the Bucks. In his first year coming off the bench exclusively, he provided quite a spark as a go-to low-post scorer and solid passer out of double-teams. He led the Bucks in field goal percentage this season with a mark of 53.3 percent, and was second on the team in rebounding. That&#8217;s notable, considering he only played 22.5 minutes per game. He was even more effective in Milwaukee&#8217;s first-round playoff series against the Toronto Raptors, with averages of 13.2 points and 7.3 rebounds. He also led the team in plus\/minus.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Monroe will continue to be a very good second-unit scoring option for Milwaukee. Monroe is an unselfish player offensively, and he does quality work in cleaning the glass on the defensive boards. The Bucks will trust Monroe to keep playing with veteran savvy on both ends in order to help them reach the playoffs again next season, or perhaps even contend for homecourt advantage in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe is going into his eighth season in the NBA, during which he&#8217;ll be 27 years old. He&#8217;s played for the Bucks for the last two years. Before that, Monroe played for the Detroit Pistons, who drafted him seventh overall in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the LWOS 2017 NBA Free Agency Tracker for all of your NBA free agency coverage, and be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LastWordHoops?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow @LastWordHoops<\/a> on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest NBA news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Main Photo:<br \/>\nJanuary 23, 2016: Milwaukee Bucks center Greg Monroe (15) shoots a lay up against New Orleans Pelicans center Alexis Ajinca (42) during the NBA game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA. (Photograph by Stephen Lew\/Icon Sportswire) (Photo by Stephen Lew\/Icon Sportswire\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big man Greg Monroe exercises his $17.88 million player option to remain with the Milwaukee Bucks for the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1981,"featured_media":4288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,15,3],"tags":[65,646,219,96,297,202],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-bucks","category-news","tag-basketball","tag-greg-monroe","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-nba-news"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}