The Bratwurst – Milwaukee Bucks Blog

Well, this is a bit of a surprise — Gery Woefel is reporting that Lynn Greer requested that the Bucks release him so he could take a 2 year, $7 million contract with Greek power Olympiakos. The Bucks granted the request, and now Greer is off to Greece to sign the contract that was originally offered to Charlie Bell.

And so ends Greer’s Milwaukee career, which certainly didn’t go the way he would have liked. He only got into 41 games this season, but his per-minute numbers indicated that he belonged in the NBA (he averaged 4 points and 1.3 assists in 10 mpg, and had an IPM of .6856, ranking him around the 75th best guard in the NBA). He didn’t play at all under Stotts, but had some big games late in the season, the highlight being 14 points in 15 minutes (after Mo Williams got ejected) to key a win over San Antonio.

But Greer also dealt with an awful tragedy during the season — the passing of his fiancee. Because of that, I’m sure that Greer is glad to put Milwaukee in his rear view mirror.

Greer’s presence was one reason that I felt the Bucks would be just fine not matching the Heat’s offer to Charlie Bell. However, with the retention of Bell and the addition of Royal Ivey and Ramon Sessions, it’s good that he was able to leave and upgrade to a much nicer contract.

That does leave one roster spot open, and I would not be surprised to see the Bucks fill it with an offer to Scoonie Penn. Penn was the third player in for a tryout with Royal Ivey and Dee Brown (who has since signed a contract with a Turkish team), and he fits the profile of a player that the Bucks have found before in Bell and Greer: big time college player, considered a “shooting guard in a point guard’s body” coming out of college, big time scorer in Europe.