Damian Lillard has been waived by the Milwaukee Bucks and had his contract stretched in the process so he'll be free to sign wherever he wants while collecting $22.5 million per season for the next five years from Milwaukee.
While this may seem like a fairly common move for an NBA front office, the fact that the Bucks just executed the most expensive stretch provision in league history makes this seem like an extraordinary move. On Tuesday's edition of NBA Today, ESPN's Marc J. Spears heaped some praise on a surprising part of the Bucks organization for coming up with the plan—the super nerds in the computer room.
