{"id":855,"date":"2016-09-22T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2016-09-22T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T02:32:00","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-acquire-michael-beasley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/09\/22\/milwaukee-bucks-acquire-michael-beasley\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks Acquire Michael Beasley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> have traded point guard <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/ennisty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Ennis<\/a><\/strong> to the <strong>Houston Rockets <\/strong>for the former number two overall pick <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beaslmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Beasley<\/a><\/strong>. The Milwaukee Bucks are clearly trying to replace the injured <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/middlkh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khris Middleton<\/a><\/strong> who<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/09\/21\/khris-middleton-suffers-torn-hamstring-will-undergo-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> will be out for 6 months following a torn hamstring.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trade was originally reported by <strong>Adrian Wojnarowski<\/strong>\u00a0of <strong>The Vertical\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>Thursday<\/strong> afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Houston has traded Michael Beasley to the Bucks for guard Tyler Ennis, league sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/779051383345573888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Milwaukee Bucks Acquire\u00a0Michael Beasley<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This will benefit both sides greatly. Since locking up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetgi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/strong> to a 100$ million dollar deal the Bucks. The Bucks would have had an unfortunate had a log-jam at the point guard position. What really made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/ennisty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Ennis<\/a> expendable was the fact that he is not a prolific shooter from the outside, meaning he didn\u2019t offer something different from now backup point guard <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cartemi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Carter-Williams<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While on one hand Milwaukee freed themselves of a player who won\u2019t likely get many minutes, they also added Michael Beasley. The power forward averaged 12.8 points on 52.2 percent field goal percentage while gobbling up 4.9 rebounds. Beasley fits the mold of Milwaukee, having plenty of length and athleticism. He should be able to fit their style of position-less basketball. Although not a true replacement for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/middlkh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khris Middleton<\/a>; Beasley should theoretically the injured Buck until his return near the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the Houston Rockets picked up the 3-year, 5$ million dollar contract of former <strong>Syracuse<\/strong> guard Tyler Ennis. \u00a0Although this is Ennis&#8217; third NBA, this could be his first time to receive lots of playing time. In Phoenix Ennis was in a loaded backcourt of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dragigo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goran Dragic<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dragizo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoran Dragic<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/goodwar01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archie Goodwin<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bledser01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Bledsoe<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomais02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isaiah Thomas<\/a><\/strong>. While in Milwaukee he was behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cartemi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Carter-Williams<\/a> and Giannis Antentokounmpo. Ennis will be able to jump into this Rockets team and play valuable backup minutes. Ennis is a floor general who only averaged 1.0 turnover a game last season. He will change the pace of the game, getting team, especially Harden is on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/492035625\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.498316% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/492035625?et=PjCphlqJQ61fwiT_CKfRiA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=0zUDiHwc0Lr2yITuceXx1uW6bH0P906mXW5ZFa41DZM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Khris Middleton injury, the Milwaukee Bucks acquire Michael Beasley from the Houston Rockets in exchange for Tyler Ennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1501,"featured_media":864,"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":[31,2,15],"tags":[65,333,332,219,96,331],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockets","category-featured","category-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-houston-rockets","tag-michael-beasley","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-tyler-ennis"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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\/1501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}