It’s been a busy afternoon for the Milwaukee Bucks after deciding to fully guarantee the contract of Amir Coffey: they opted to waive their rookie point guard, Mark Sears. The news was broken by Michael
Scotto of HoopsHype on Twitter/X. Sears appeared in just seven NBA games during his time with the Bucks, none for more than seven minutes, and averaged 3.1 points per game.
Sears was highly productive over the last four seasons of college basketball, averaging 18.0 PPG, 3.9 APG, 4.1 RPG, shooting 44% from the field and 38.4% from beyond the arc. He transferred to the University of Alabama after spending his first two seasons at Ohio University, and while there, he was a three-time All-SEC player, a two-time consensus All-American, and a two-time NCAA All-Region team selection.
Despite all that, the undersized Sears went undrafted out of college and was signed to a two-way contract by the Bucks on July 3. Most of his time with the franchise was actually spent in Oshkosh with the Wisconsin Herd, where he played in 9 G League games, averaging 15 points and 5.3 assists per game. Milwaukee now has a single two-way contract slot open, with Pete Nance and Alex Antetokounmpo still under two-way deals in their other two slots. They have until March 4th to fill that opening if they so choose (teams aren’t obliged to keep their two-way slots filled at all times), after which two-way contracts cannot be signed until the offseason.
