Several reports stated that the Milwaukee Bucks wanted to retain Monta Ellis over Brandon Jennings and that the team didn’t have much interest in keeping him but it turns out those reports are untrue. Well at least according to the Bucks general manager. Read more after the jump.
Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond pledged on Friday that he plans to re-sign Brandon Jennings, who enters the market on Monday as a restricted free agent.
“It’s our intention for Brandon Jennings to remain a Milwaukee Buck,” Hammond told the Journal Sentinel. “We’re hoping to negotiate with him fairly through the July process. At the conclusion of our negotiations, if we have not reached a deal and they choose to go out and seek an opportunity in the open market, our intention then would still be to match.”
There has been a lot talk over the last year that Jennings prefers to play in a bigger market and he may choose to accept the $4,531,456 qualifying offer so he can be an unrestricted free agent in 2014.
The Bucks currently have just one backcourt player — Ish Smith — under contract and they may sign former University of Wisconsin point guard Devin Harris to a multi-year deal just in case they can’t get Jennings to ink a long-term deal.
