In a season that will inevitably ask a lot of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard, the one guy who will determine the height of Milwaukee’s floor will be Khris Middleton. Fresh off another pair of ankle surgeries earlier this summer (they were minor, we swear!), he slowly approaches the point at which he is more machine than man. And yet it is the vestiges of his versatility that makes him an intriguing fit for another year, with injury risk an ever-present asterisk.
Let’s run through his numbers from 2023-2024:
- 55 regular season games played, 27.