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Bobby Portis Rumors
Yossi Gozlan: Bobby Portis annual salaries, per source. 2025-26: $13,445,754 2026-27: $14,521,414 2027-28: $15,597,074 (player option) $43.6 million total comes a bit lower than the reported $44 million amount.
Bobby Portis: IN MILWAUKEE AT THE CRIB W IT..SHOUT OUT TO THE BUCKS FOR REAL..THE JOURNEY CONTINUES..3 MORE YEARS.. TALK SOON! #UNDERDOG
IN MILWAUKEE AT THE CRIB W IT..SHOUT OUT TO THE BUCKS FOR REAL..THE JOURNEY CONTINUES..3 MORE YEARS..TALK SOON! #UNDERDOG pic.twitter.com/wIzi3hm7jj
— Bobby BP Portis (@BPortistime) June 29, 2025
Bobby Portis to re-sign with Bucks
Shams Charania: Bobby Portis intends to sign a three-year, $44 million contract to return to the Milwaukee Bucks, with a player option for 2027-28, sources tell ESPN. Bucks and Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports reach a new deal for the sixth man extraordinaire and fan favorite in Milwaukee.
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Bobby Portis on Giannis Antetokounmpo: 'I think he's staying put with the Bucks'
Bobby Portis: And um, I just think that, you know, ultimately, when you’ve been on a team for a decade-plus, and when you’ve done so much for a city—low-key, like, basketball in Milwaukee wasn’t really a thing until Giannis became who he is. So when you put that much effort into a franchise, that much trust and belief, and you've been loyal for so long... Like I said—my whole point—I just feel like he bleeds green, man. No matter what’s reported, no matter what might come to the threshold… Like, would you really want to see Giannis in Toronto as a basketball fan? You know what I’m saying? I saw those jersey swaps this week on Bleacher Report and all that, but come on. Would you really want to see him on a different team? Sure, if I’m playing 2K, that’s one thing. Move him around, put him on different teams, cool. But in real life? A No. 34 Giannis jersey in Toronto? That would just look weird. So me personally? Nah, man. I don’t really see any movement happening. I think he’s staying put with the Bucks.
Bobby Portis on free agency: I would love to be back with Milwaukee but I just want to be compensated fairly
Bobby Portis I mean honestly—just personally—this year’s free agency, I’m focused on Bobby Portis. I’m worried about what’s best for me, what’s best for my situation. Where can I fit? Where can I play the best basketball? If I sign a three- or four-year deal, where can I be the best version of Bobby Portis? Where can I grow, and where can I be compensated fairly? That’s my biggest focus right now. Obviously, I would love to be back in Milwaukee. I’m not saying I don’t want to come back to the Bucks—I would love to—but I just want to be compensated fairly, man. I’ve taken a lot of team-friendly deals to be here. We’re at a point now where I feel like it’s time I get compensated—fairly—to my peers. That’s all I ask for.
Team executives expect Portis to have numerous potential landing spots in the midlevel market as well, although Milwaukee would like to bring back the 30-year-old forward, sources say. Golden State has always been a team to monitor for Portis, who has a notable fan in head coach Steve Kerr from their shared days during the 2023 FIBA World Cup competition with USA Basketball.
Chris Haynes: This upcoming meeting, expected to take place next week in Milwaukee, will be the first time both sides formally sit down post-season. Let me also add: there was no exit interview for Giannis. From what I was told, the Bucks said, “Hey, emotions are running high immediately after the loss, so let’s pivot and have this conversation later.” As a result, there’s been no communication between the two sides from that point until this morning. This meeting, scheduled for the middle of next week, will be Giannis’s chance to express what he wants and desires—but also, and most importantly, to listen. He'll want to hear what plans the organization has. What are they planning to do with Bobby Portis? What about Brook Lopez? And what’s the plan regarding Damian Lillard’s injury and potential replacement? Is there anything actionable in that area?
With his teammate at the Milwaukee Bucks, Bobby Portis Jr., becoming viral, Giannis Antetokounmpo jokingly addressed offseason rumors, shifting focus from himself to the 30-year-old American forward. “Don’t worry about me! What you doing Bobby, you staying or leaving?” the Freak wrote in an Instagram comment, referring to a player option worth approximately 13.4 million dollars for the 2025-26 season on the contract of Portis.
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Bobby Portis on Giannis Antetokounmpo: 'He bleeds wanting that Tim Duncan, Kobe-type career, Steph Curry–type career, where they play with one franchise'
I gotta shoot my shot because you’ve heard the rumors — we’ve heard the rumors. Giannis in a big market. I’ve heard LA. I’ve heard Miami. New York, for sure, for sure. Have you spoken to him about his plans for the offseason at all, or do you just kind of let him be a man and figure it out on his own? Bobby Portis: I was actually going to hit him up in a couple of weeks just to let the season die down, because how we ended, that hurt. I ain’t going to lie. Like, being up, bro, and then you lose — especially the way we lost. And then what kind of made me feel better, for real, is that they did the same thing to the Cavs. I’m like, “Whoa, we ain’t that.” At first it was like only one out of a thousand took the cut off, you know what I’m saying? That was like two out of a thousand teams. So, we’re not solo, you feel me? Two out of a thousand is better than one. Not one — like, it’s two teams now. It’s not just one by itself. So, I do feel better in that regard. But I just think, man, that Giannis bleeds green, though. I think he bleeds green, man. I think he bleeds loyalty. I think he bleeds wanting that Tim Duncan, Kobe-type career, Steph Curry–type career, where they play with one franchise.
Bobby Portis: Obviously, it sounds really, really good that Giannis leaves and goes to another team, but realistically, if you trade for him — just looking at it business-wise — you trade for him, obviously he’s going to make, what, $58–$60 million. I mean, you gotta trade your whole team, right? You gotta trade your whole team. And then, being able to get him, you still have to put players around him to compete for a championship, right? So, it looks like whoever — if you do make a move, you might be in the same position that the Bucks are in. So, I don’t really know how that all shakes out, financial-wise or whatever it is. But to me, just looking at it…
Bobby Portis: Got to the second round the second year, but obviously the last couple of years have been first-round exits. So, being completely honest here, if you’re looking at it business-wise, how does someone who’s a GM of the team look at the team losing three straight years in the first round? So, it all depends on how everything shakes up. I would love to be in Milwaukee; I love it here. They call me the mayor here, right? So, it’s kind of hard to leave a city where you’re like, you’re the mayor. But, obviously, it’s going to be up in the air with how they maneuver the roster, whatever they want to bring back. It’s really going to be all on the organization to want to bring certain guys back, whatever it is. So, it’s not my decision until I know if I want to come back to the Bucks or whether they want to re-sign me. That’s so far down the line. Obviously, the season has to end.
Brook Lopez done with the Bucks?
Bobby Marks: I think the days of Brook Lopez—and I am a huge Brook Lopez fan. I drafted him, part of the group that drafted him in Brooklyn, and was with him for seven years with the Nets—and he had a terrific career in Milwaukee. I think the days of him in Milwaukee are over. I just think the style of how they have to play—certainly with a traditional center—and I think you can get away with that with Bobby Portis.
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