MEMPHIS — The Milwaukee Bucks have chosen not to exercise the fourth-year option on guard MarJon Beauchamp, a league source confirmed to The Athletic.
The decision to not exercise the fourth-year rookie-scale contract will make Beauchamp an unrestricted free agent during the summer of 2025. The Bucks would still have the opportunity to re-sign Beauchamp, but he will be free to sign with any team at the start of the offseason.
ESPN was the first to report news of the decision.
The Bucks selected Beauchamp, 24, with the No. 24 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft after he spent a season with the G League Ignite. In his first two seasons, Beauchamp appeared in 100 games (12 starts) and averaged 4.8 points and 2.1 rebounds in 13.1 minutes per game. But he never managed to break through for a consistent spot as a rookie in Mike Budenholzer’s rotation or during his second season, the rotations of Adrian Griffin or Doc Rivers.
When they drafted him, the Bucks saw the 6-foot-7 Beauchamp as a switchable wing with the size and quickness to defend multiple positions and knock down 3-pointers as a role player alongside the Bucks’ superstars, but he never consistently proved himself to secure playing time or a regular role. On 221 career attempts from deep, Beauchamp has been a 35.3 percent 3-point shooter.
Exercising the fourth-year option of his rookie deal would have put the Bucks on the line for $4.7 million next season. Now the team has only seven players on guaranteed contracts ,with three of those players (Khris Middleton, Bobby Portis and Pat Connaughton) holding player options for the 2025-26 season.
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