According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, the Milwaukee Bucks and general manager Jon Horst have agreed to a contract extension to keep him with the organization for the foreseeable future.

Currently, the deal is known as a “multi-year contract,” it’s unknown the exact years of the deal.

For those that did not know, Horst’s previous contract was set to expire. For Milwaukee, securing an extension with him was very important.

Horst has been with the Bucks since 2017, as he’s had a lengthy, successful resume. Most notably winning an NBA championship with the franchise, securing multiple contracts with Giannis Antetokounmpo, strategically landing Damian Lillard, and making key moves to keep Milwaukee a top-five team in an ever-evolving Eastern Conference.

Plus, in all eight seasons of his tenure with the team, Milwaukee has made the playoffs. Horst has a .647 win percentage, which is second-best in the league during that eight year time frame.

In 2024, the Detroit Pistons tried persuading him to join their team. Then, most recently, the Phoenix Suns were having their eyes set on Horst and trying to get him to join their franchise.

According to Marc Stein, there are two more teams to watch out for in the sweepstakes of Kevin Durant: the Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks.

Depending on how their postseason run goes, that will determine if they will sell off pieces of their team to acquire the unicorn Kevin Durant.

People within Durant’s inner circle wanted him to go to New York over Brooklyn back in 2019, however, he opted to team with Kyrie Irving and James Harden to create a “Big 3.”

Minnesota could seek to have Anthony Edwards and Durant become one of the league’s top duos, which would propel them into being a championship-contender – ultimately their hope.

Per Stein, the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs are also teams to keep an eye on. Before the Phoenix Suns landed Durant, Pat Riley’s Heat wanted him. Even this past trade deadline, Miami had their eyes on Durant.

Prior reports say the Houston Rockets are “less likely” to trade for Durant, even if they get bounced early in the postseason. This has prompted more teams to pile in the middle to convince the Suns to trade him to them.

Before TNT’s broadcast of Bucks-Pacers, the NBA announced that Payton Pritchard had won the Sixth Man of the Year award. A highly viewed award where he battled both Ty Jerome and Malik Beasley.

Pritchard has been one of the most valuable bench players in the NBA this season, as he averaged a career-high in points (14.3). Plus, led the NBA in points off the bench with 1,079 and set an NBA single-season record for three-pointers made off the bench with 246.

His huge season propelled him to first in voting to secure this year’s Sixth Man of the Year award.

The 27-year-old received 82 of the 100 first place votes and was 454 points ahead of both Jerome and Beasley.