Kevin Porter Jr. Reportedly Exercises $5.4M Bucks Contract Option After Giannis Trade

Milwaukee Bucks guard Kevin Porter Jr. has exercised his $5.4 million player option to keep him with the team through the 2026-27 season, per NBA insider Jake Fischer.

The 26-year-old Porter has played six NBA seasons for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers and Bucks.

Porter signed a two-year, $10.5 million contract with Milwaukee last season, with a 2026-27 player option. He landed with the Bucks initially after the Clippers traded him to the Bucks on Feb. 6, 2025 for MarJon Beauchamp. Milwaukee also got a trade exception.

Last year, Porter averaged 17.4 points on 46.5 percent shooting (32.2 percent from the three-point line), 7.4 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 2.2 steals in 33.2 minutes per game.

He started 36 of his 38 games for the Bucks despite dealing with a right knee problem that transpired in the first game of the year.

"It started eight minutes into the first game (of the season)," then-Milwaukee head coach Doc Rivers said in April, per the Associated Press.

"When you look at how he played overall, he had a hell of a year and was going to have even a better year but the injury thing caught him eight minutes into our first game and he never really recovered from that."

Porter missed a month earlier in the season with a right meniscus injury suffered in the season opener against the Washington Wizards. He ended up missing five weeks but returned in late November. Porter later missed six games in late January and early February with a strained oblique.

Porter started missing more time in March because of his right knee. He first missed a matchup with the Atlanta Hawks on March 4 because of swelling. Porter only played three more games for the rest of the year, with the last one being on March 17. Porter got arthroscopic surgery in April to officially end the 2025-26 campaign.

Porter has plenty of time to rest and rehab for the beginning of the 2026-27 season, though, and Milwaukee should certainly be happy to have him back in town on a valuable deal based on his impressive production last season.