Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey may be on the move to a new BBL franchise.

Carey's performances for the Adelaide Strikers, particularly in their title-winning season in 2017-18, played a major part in his ascension to the national side where he has been vice-captain at various times. But it is unclear whether he will play for the Strikers after Australia's limited-overs series against India and Australia A's tour match against the Indians, for which he has also been selected.

ESPNcricinfo understands that as late as last week Carey had not signed with the Strikers, and when pressed on whether he would return to play for Adelaide he gave a cryptic response.

"I won't give anything away at the moment," Carey said, speaking from quarantine in Sydney, having just returned from the IPL where he played three games for the Delhi Capitals. "Watch this space. There should be an announcement in the coming days and I'm really excited to play in the Big Bash this year.

"After the three-day game I'll join the franchise that I'm going to. Watch this space."

Meanwhile, Carey says he has been given no guarantee that he will get his Australia T20 spot back, after being dropped for the the last T20I on the tour of England in August. With Carey sitting out, Matthew Wade took the gloves for the game in Southampton, and opened the batting while David Warner was rested.

Carey returned to the side for the ODI series and made a series-winning century in the final ODI at Old Trafford.

"I'm not sure what the line-up would be," Carey said. "Unfortunately, it wasn't a successful T20 series for us in England which always allows some doors to open in terms of selection. I don't have any indication at this stage. But I'm fully focused and excited about what's going to be a huge ODI series."

It was the second time Carey had been dropped from the T20 side in the last two years. He was also left out of the two-match series in India in 2019 when Peter Handscomb took the gloves. He returned to play in all six T20Is last summer but did not bat in any match due to the dominance of Australia's top order.

He then managed scores of 27, 14, and 7 on the tour of South Africa before scores of just 1 and 2 in the first two games in England forced the selectors' hand.

"My numbers in the past few T20s probably allowed the opening of the door for Wadey to come in and Davey (Warner) obviously didn't play that last T20 and Wadey got an opportunity opening the batting," Carey said.

"Unfortunately, I never like getting left out of any team but it's allowed me to go away and develop, if it is a lower order role or if it's back up the top of the order, doing everything I can to get back into that team is something I want to do. But again, since then I felt like I finished off that UK tour really strongly and took a lot out of the IPL working with Punter (Ricky Ponting). We'll see how this summer starts with both my form and selection."

Carey's family is also in limbo at the moment with his wife and young son forced to flee Adelaide to Sydney at short notice yesterday after a spike in Covid-19 cases in Adelaide changed travel protocols for people attempting to leave South Australia. He has not seen his family since leaving for England in August and won't be reunited with them until he has completed the mandatory 14-day quarantine that applies to international travellers, which concludes on November 26.

It is further evidence of the enormous complexity of the situation for Cricket Australia, the BCCI, the players, and staff. But Carey said the players had been checking in on each other in the various travel bubbles in the UK, the UAE, and now in Sydney.

"I think the relationships we have in this group is something that we all fall back on and joining this little bubble here, we get to see our mates and some familiar faces," Carey said.

"All the guys' spirits are really strong from all the indicators I've seen. The training effort and the physical shape that everyone is in is fantastic. It's obviously a little bit different than what we're used to, being away from home for this long, but CA has been fantastic and all the players are really close and checking in on one another."

Glenn McGrath loves to make series predictions. This time, all he is willing to concede is that "Australia have a slight advantage." And that is because they have a lethal left-arm pace option in Mitchell Starc. That said, McGrath believes India will be buoyed by their series win in 2018-19 and can fight fire with fire because of their bowlers.

"Umesh Yadav's got raw pace, Mohammed Shami has great control and swings the ball both ways and Bumrah is just class. He has great mental strength. His second and third spells are just as quick as his first," McGrath told select media in an interaction organised by Sony, the broadcasters of the India-Australia series in India. "You have guys who, if on fire, are tough to beat. But on par you have Josh Hazlewood, he bowls in good areas and is tall, strong.

"Then Pat Cummins is the No.1 bowler in the world. He runs in all day, always gives 100 per cent. He gets slightly different angles because of the way he runs in. Then you have left-arm Mitchell Starc. When he gets it right, he can pick four-five wickets at a go. He has got that X-factor. If both teams are bowling at the top of their game, I would probably put Australia slightly ahead only because of the left-hander, which makes a big impact."

India's series win in 2018-19 was as much due to the batting efforts of Cheteshwar Pujara as it was about the bowling. Pujara made 571 runs, including three centuries, India's best for the series. With Virat Kohli set to miss three Tests, due to the birth of his first child, India will depend on Pujara again to set up Tests.

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McGrath believes lack of match time and the feel for batting long could "have a big impact" on Pujara and predicted that he might have to work harder for his runs than he did in 2018-19. Pujara is one of two players from the current Test squad to have not played any competitive cricket for over 10 months thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. Pujara last featured in the Ranji Trophy final in March and has since had to rely on training sessions with his state team Saurashtra back home in Rajkot. In November, he began training in Dubai with Hanuma Vihari, the other Test specialist, even as the rest of the squad were involved in the final stages of IPL 2020.

"The thing he did so well last time was that he occupied the crease. He spent time in the middle just batting," McGrath said. "He is a kind of batsman who doesn't feel pressure when not scoring runs. That's unique in the modern era where there are batsmen who would want to score runs after one maiden over. Pujara doesn't have that mindset. That helped him last time, allowed him to get a lot of time and just compile runs.

"The fact that he hasn't spent time in the middle, hasn't had lot of long batting time, is going to have a big impact. He will probably have to work harder this series than the last one as he hasn't played any cricket."

That said, McGrath believes adjusting to conditions shouldn't be a challenge for the current batting line-up, unlike in the past where they struggled to adjust to the pace and bounce, because the surfaces have changed character over the years.

"In early days, Indian batsmen weren't used to the extra pace and bounce Australian wickets had," he said. "You wouldn't say there was real fear, but it was not something they were used to. The fear factor was more about pace and bounce. I don't think Australian wickets have the same pace and bounce. But it's still quicker than in India. The last series win will give them a lot of confidence."

Unlike the general vibe in Australia around Kohli's absence - at least among the broadcasters and a few former players - McGrath believes this is an opportunity for the rest of India's batsmen to take ownership of their line-up.

"That first Test is going to be interesting," he said. "That is a day-night Test. India haven't played a day-night Test in Australia. At night, with the sun setting, it will probably start favouring the fast bowlers. It will be about timing, when you are bowling or batting. Virat, if he has to have an impact in the series, will have to make an impact in the only Test he is playing. That will set the tone. Two years back, the first Test win in Adelaide gave them a lot of confidence.

"As far as other batsmen are concerned, Rohit Sharma is a quality batsman who hasn't achieved at the Test level what he should be achieving. Maybe when Virat goes home, he might just step up and show what he can do. You can't just focus on one player. You have Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul. India has a strong batting line-up."

Almost two years on from his first call-up to an Australian squad, Will Pucovski has declared himself ready for a Test debut anywhere in the batting order and spoken of the mental process work he has done to be ever more capable of churning out big scores such as the consecutive Sheffield Shield double hundreds that vaulted him back into the reckoning.

Back in January 2019, a wide-eyed Pucovski was not yet 21 years old when he joined the Australian Test side against Sri Lanka, and in between mental health breaks and a frustrating sequence of concussion issues he has been on an exacting journey to return to the cusp of a baggy green.

Those challenges, which Pucovski has navigated in part through the help of the noted mind coach Emma Murray, were set aside when he was granted a promotion to open the batting by Victoria's new coach Chris Rogers and promptly responded by peeling off a pair of huge scores against South Australia and Western Australia in the Shield. Pucovski reckons that his mind will be much more focused on the job this time around, rather than being distracted by the bright lights that follow the Australian team around the country.

"It's been a long journey but I don't think I could be in a much better place to take this challenge on," Pucovski told SEN Radio. "It's something I'm really excited for, and people have their different journeys and mine's taken a different path, but two years down the track from Sri Lanka when I was just about to turn 21, I feel like I've put in a mountain of work and that's been to achieve my goal of hopefully succeeding and playing for Australia. So, if the opportunity comes, I definitely think I'm ready.

"I feel like I'm in a much better place to take the opportunity if it presents itself now than I may have been a couple of years ago. I think I've just put the work in, to be honest, and I guess natural maturity. I was 20 a couple of years ago, I'm 22 now, I've played 15 or 20 more first-class games, I've put a stack of work in off the field to make sure my life and my cricket's in a really good place and probably the difference in feeling is more like you're excited but you're ready to do a job this time.

"Last time, not that I wasn't ready to do a job, but you were probably so filled with that sort of excitement of getting picked for Australia that I didn't think too much about the job at hand. This time around it feels like 'I've earned the right to be here' and I'm pretty pumped to take the challenge on, even if I don't play, just doing my bit around the squad to hopefully win a series for Australia."

As for where he may bat, given the coach Justin Langer and captain Tim Paine's evident contentment with the combination of David Warner and Joe Burns, Pucovski said he had shown he can slot anywhere in the top six and apply his commitment to long innings with equal rigour.

"Most of the team have done very well over the last year or two, so it is a good thing for Australian cricket that there's so much depth in all areas of the team and maybe one advantage I do have is I am able to bat wherever is required," he said.

"The current top six are going pretty well, so it might just be one of those things where you just have to wait your turn, but as JL suggested if I keep performing well, I'm only putting myself in the best possible position. It's one of those things where it's out of my control, and wherever the opportunity presents itself, if it does, I'll be ready to take it."

"Cricket's quite a mentally taxing game and you can get in your own head quite a bit with a lot of different things, whether it be technical or tactical or whatever you want to call it - just having that clear mind and 'this is how I'm going to go about it'"." Will Pucovski

Asked about Murray, Pucovski said she had aided him in having the clarity he needed at vital times to perform as a batsman and a cricketer.

"It's been massive for me, she's helped me transform the way I look at things, which has been huge, both on and off the field. She came into my life a couple years ago and it's been a slow and steady process and there's been a lot of ups and downs, but if I look at myself two years ago as a complete person compared to where I'm at now, it tells quite a different story.

"So I'm very grateful for the work she's done with me and I hope that relationship continues over the journey, especially with cricket being quite a challenging sport, she's a great help in terms of getting me in the right head space to go out and perform and do my best and execute my processes. I'm a massive Collingwood fan, but it is great to see Richmond have their success knowing that they're implementing a lot of the ideas that she teaches and really preaches. It's easy for me to see why they're so successful because of the work I've done with her."

The recent Shield games were a strong indicator that a couple of years of greater maturity, plus work on mental skills, have left Pucovski well placed to take the next step in the game. "I do a lot of work on my processes and making sure I'm in a place to be really clear with what I want to do," he said. "Cricket's quite a mentally taxing game and you can get in your own head quite a bit with a lot of different things, whether it be technical or tactical or whatever you want to call it. Just having that clear mind and 'this is how I'm going to go about it'.

"It's just that drive to keep going I think. I've always hated getting out really and from a mental point of view, if I look at it as in 'I'm just repeating a five-second process over and over again', then the time seems to pass a lot quicker. To a degree it seems like you're out there for a long time, but at the end of the day it hasn't felt like you've been out there all day, because all you've been doing is repeating a process over and over in your head and seeing what's going on. That's been the key I think, and easy to have faith in that when you have the results to back it up.

"I love the challenge of it, I love the idea of - dominating is the wrong word, because I don't see myself as a dominating player, but just grinding the opposition down and being really tough to get through and batting at the same tempo the whole time. I've had a few people suggest to me that it looks like whether I'm on zero of a hundred I'm batting the same and I get a bit of enjoyment out of that repeatability and being able to repeat that process time and time again."

Nike's 15-year association with the BCCI officially ended on Tuesday with the board awarding the kit sponsorship rights for the next three years to MPL Sports, an e-sports platform.

MPL's deal will stretch up to December 2023, during which the Indian teams are slated to feature in a total of three T20 World Cups (men's and women's), two 50-over World Cups (men's and women's), one Under-19 World Cup (men) and - if the men's team qualifies for it - one ICC World Test Championship final, apart from regular bilateral cricket.

The announcement came after Nike decided against renewing their deal worth INR 370 crore (US$ 50 million) a year, which they signed in 2016.

Owing to the Covid-19-induced lockdown and absence of cricket, Nike is believed to have asked for an extension to its four-year contract or a renewal at a discounted price when their deal was up for renewal in September. Subsequently, the BCCI floated a fresh tender, reportedly in the interest of fairness to other prospective sponsors.

During the pandemic, the BCCI has had to cut short South Africa's tour of India and cancel the Asia Cup and tours to Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe for the men's team. The women's team hasn't played international cricket since their appearance at the T20 World Cup final in March.

As part of their deal, MPL Sports will design and manufacture jerseys worn by the men's, women's and Under-19 teams.

MPL's deal starts with India's tour of Australia that begins with the first of three ODIs on November 27 in Sydney. India will then play three T20Is and four Tests, before returning home to host England for a full series.

Lindy McDaniel, an All-Star reliever who appeared in nearly 1,000 major league games over 21 seasons, has died. He was 84.

Bill Chambers, a longtime friend and fellow elder at the Lavon Church of Christ in Lavon, Texas, said McDaniel died of COVID-19 on Saturday night at an acute care facility in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb.

Steady as a long man and closer, McDaniel pitched in 987 big league games, trailing only the tally of Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm when he retired in 1975.

McDaniel debuted with the St. Louis Cardinals as a 19-year-old in 1955 and won 15 games as a starter two years later before transitioning to the bullpen for the bulk of his career. He led the majors with 27 saves in 1960, earning an All-Star selection and tying with Cardinals teammate Ernie Broglio for third in Cy Young Award balloting, behind winner Vern Law and runner-up Warren Spahn.

The lanky right-hander pitched eight seasons with St. Louis and six with the New York Yankees and also appeared for the Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals. He finished his career with a 3.45 ERA, 174 saves and a record of 141-119, despite playing for mostly mediocre teams. For all his success, McDaniel never appeared in a postseason game.

McDaniel became a Christian minister in retirement and preached in his hometown of Hollis, Oklahoma, and later in Texas.

Kathi Watters, his daughter, said McDaniel had been ill for about four weeks. He had been an elder at the small Lavon Church of Christ for 12 years and preached there one or two times per month. Funeral details are pending.

A devastating unbeaten half-century from Madeline Penna has helped Adelaide Strikers thump Hobart Hurricanes at Hurstville Oval.

Penna made the highest score by a No. 7 in WBBL history smashing 56 not out off 33 balls to help the Strikers post an excellent total of 6 for 141 having recovered from 6 for 72 in the 14th over. Penna and Tegan McPharlin, who made 18 not out, combined to dig the Strikers out of a hole with Penna producing some outstanding hitting in the final over off Nicola Carey. She smashed 24 from the 20th over, including a towering six over square leg to bring up her maiden WBBL half-century. Carey finished with figures of 2 for 44 having taken 2 for 20 from her first three overs. Brooke Hepburn took 2 for 23 claiming the scalps of Katie Mack and Laura Wolvaardt.

The Hurricanes never got close in the chase collapsing to be all out for 77, just days after being bowled out for 82 against Brisbane Heat.

Teen sensation Darcie Brown continued her outstanding form with the ball claiming 2 for 19. She clean bowled Rachel Priest for just 4 to start the rot in the 3rd over. Sarah Coyte took 3 for 10 and produced a run out to remove Chloe Tryon who was the only Hurricane to reach double figures.

Shane Watson, the Australian Cricketers' Association president, has argued the broadcaster Seven has "no legs to stand on" in its dispute with Cricket Australia after the decision to add a third overseas player to Big Bash League lists added greatly to the talent set to be on show in the 10th edition of the tournament.

CA and Seven are in dispute over the broadcaster's contracted AUD 450 million portion of an AUD 1.2 billion deal signed alongside Foxtel in 2018, with the matter currently before the Australian Chamber for International and Commercial Arbitration. ACICA is understood to be compiling its own list of potential experts to assess rights value after CA and Seven both baulked at one another's choices of possible arbiters.

Among a raft of arguments raised as it tries to reduce the rights fee as part of spiralling debts, Seven's chief executive James Warburton and multibillionaire chairman Kerry Stokes have claimed that the network has not received value for the BBL in particular, as audiences continued to trend down over the past two years. Watson, who stated in a blog post on Tuesday that he had been initially concerned by Seven's arguments, went on to say that the introduction of a third overseas player to BBL teams had reasserted his view that the tournament was second only to the IPL.

Overseas players signed for the 10th edition of the BBL include Rashid Khan, Jason Roy, Nicholas Pooran, Sam Billings, Jonny Bairstow, Carlos Brathwaite, Tom Banton, Dan Lawrence, Morne Morkel, Imran Tahir, Rilee Rossouw, Dawid Malan, Alex Hales and Tom Curran.

"The reason why the BBL was such a global hit was because of the amazing quality of cricket that was played even without a number of our Aussie stars being available for a lot, if not all of the tournament," Watson wrote. "In my mind, this is the sole reason why the IPL is the best T20 tournament in the world because all of the best cricketers in the world being available to play interwoven with so many Indian stars and the young Indian superstars of the future.

"As we saw during the IPL that has just finished, the reason why this IPL was another runaway success even in this current global environment, was the quality of the cricket. The teams were so evenly matched which meant that you never knew who was going to win the match as well as the standard of cricket being so high. So with all of this in mind, the BBL making the great decision to allow three overseas players per team to play in every game interwoven with the quality domestic T20 players we have, wow, what a product it would be.

"So Channel 7, you have no legs to stand on because in my view, after being around just about all of the best domestic T20 competitions in the world, this was going to be one of the best BBLs in its history, even in the bio-security bubbles that will be mandatory for everyone's safety."

Watson's words about the broadcast dispute were part of a wider discussion of the BBL's new rules released on Monday, which include the allowance for substitutes, changes to the powerplay, and the allocation of a bonus point after 10 overs of the chase. These changes were the product of discussions between CA and the broadcasters, which have been looking for numerous ways to "spice up" the competition in order to improve ratings.

"I read today that the BBL is introducing these new gimmicks, such as the 'Power Surge', the 'X Factor Player' and the 'Bash Boost' in a misguided attempt to re-invigorate the tournament. I just can't seem to get my head around why there are people out there who are trying to re-invent the wheel when the wheel was not broken," Watson wrote. "It just had hit a little rocky ground, in which some really simple measures that were already put in place, would create a slipstream back to the very top again.

"The complexities that these new 'Science Experiments' are going to create for the viewers, let alone the players and coaches, when none of these have been tried and tested at lower levels, have really taken the wind out of my sails. I truly hope that my concerns with these new gimmicks prove me totally wrong and that all of the things that have come together over the last 6 months, will be a perfect storm to create the most engaging and exciting BBL in its history.

"The simple game plan in my mind is to get the world's best cricketers playing on world class pitches and guess what, you will get world class cricket to watch for the cricket lovers out there and we will all be on the edge of our seats admiring the feats of these amazing cricketers. There is a saying that I do say a lot and it couldn't be truer than right now, 'The simple things in life are often the best'."

The major concern Watson had about the BBL earlier this year - its drastically increased number of games since 2018 - remains unchanged, despite his suggestion that it go back to 10 games per side rather than the current level of 14.

"The last two years had seen things starting to wane quite a bit with the big contributing factor being the increased length of the tournament, due to the new broadcast deal that was put in place," Watson wrote. "So when Channel 7 publicised their grievances mid-year, as a 'Hail Mary' to try to reduce their financial exposure to cricket, which they seemed to pay overs for at that time especially knowing Channel Nine's previous financial experiences, I was a little nervous that what Seven where saying around the quality of the BBL product not being what they were expecting, that this argument might have some legs."

Chicago Bears quarterback Nick Foles was carted off the field after being slammed to the turf late in the fourth quarter of Monday night's 19-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

With 44 seconds left in the game, Foles dropped back to pass and attempted to avoid the Vikings' rush, but Minnesota defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo caught hold of the veteran quarterback and drove Foles backwards into the ground.

Bears coach Matt Nagy, in his postgame availability, said Foles suffered a hip or leg injury.

"You never want to see anybody go down, my team or the other team," Bears running back Cordarrelle Patterson said. "Being a part of that, it hurts, man. We know how much work Nick puts in each and every day, the grind he put in. To see a guy like that go down, it's heartbreaking. I just wish the best for him and his family. Just keep praying for him. I hope everything works out."

Foles stayed down on the field for over a minute until the cart came out and transported him to the locker room.

"He's a tough dude and he was in a lot of pain," Nagy said. "When you see that and you're down there with him you feel for him just because you don't know how bad it was. So that part is hard. Again, the protection and where we're at with getting the ball out, quick game, getting the ball out and getting the ball out with max protection is something we've got once again to look at and make sure that where are we at right now and how are we doing this and all of that."

Foles, 31, finished the night 15-of-26 for 106 yards and one interception.

Veteran Tyler Bray entered the game for Chicago's final drive. Former second-overall pick Mitchell Trubisky, who lost the starting job to Foles in Week 3, was inactive because of a shoulder injury.

"I don't know about Mitch," Nagy said after the loss. "I think there's a possibility, but I don't know that for sure. We just have to take it day-by-day."

The Bears (5-5) are on a bye week and next play at Green Bay on Nov. 29.

The Rockets are finalizing a trade to send Robert Covington to Portland for Trevor Ariza, a 2020 first-round pick and a 2021 protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Blazers are sending Houston the 16th pick in Wednesday's NBA draft and another future first-round pick, sources said. The deal can't be finalized until after Wednesday's draft.

Covington was part of the four-team, 12 player deal that brought Clint Capela to the Atlanta Hawks last February. He came from Minnesota in one of the NBA's most expansive trades in nearly 20 years that also saw the Timberwolves acquire two first-round picks, including Houston's 2020 pick, which they moved on to the Denver Nuggets for guard Malik Beasley and forward Juan Hernangomez.

The 6-foot-7 Covington has become one of the NBA's top defenders and has averaged 12.7 points and 5.7 rebounds in his seven NBA seasons with three teams.

The New Orleans Pelicans are finalizing a deal to send guard Jrue Holiday to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for a package that includes Eric Bledsoe, George Hill and three first-round picks, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The trade also includes a pair of pick swaps and will ultimately amount to something similar to what the Pelicans received from the Lakers last season in the deal that sent Anthony Davis to Los Angeles.

Holiday, 30, was an All-Defensive first team selection in 2017-18 and a second-team selection in 2018-19. He just missed being named to the team last season.

Holiday has a reputation around the league as being one of the best defenders in the league and best two-way guard. He averaged 19.1 points and 6.7 assists last season.

Holiday is set to be paid $25.4 million for the 2020-21 season and holds a player option for $26.3 million for the following year.

For Milwaukee, this deal tries to add another piece to the puzzle to help convince Giannis Antetokounmpo to sign the supermax extension he is eligible for. The Bucks are now able to pair the two-time reigning MVP with All-Star Khris Middleton and Holiday.

New Orleans, meanwhile, adds to its pick war chest, which includes the Lakers' 2021 reverse lottery-protected pick (8-30) that becomes unprotected in 2022, the right to a 2023 Lakers first-round pick swap and a swap in 2024 or 2025 for another first-rounder.

The draft selections give the team even more flexibility as New Orleans looks to build for the future around Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram, who is a restricted free agent but someone the Pelicans view as a key building block going forward.

Holiday spent the past seven seasons in New Orleans, which acquired him in a draft-night deal from the Philadelphia 76ers in 2013 following his lone All-Star season. His first three years in New Orleans were wrought with injuries, but in the past four seasons, he solidified his status as one of the top defenders in the league.

That status was backed up by several NBA stars this past offseason. Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard told Holiday's New Orleans Pelicans teammate JJ Redick that Holiday was "the best defender in the league" in August during an appearance on Redick's "The Old Man & The Three" podcast.

In September, again on Redick's podcast, Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant called Holiday "probably the best defender in the league at the guard position."

Bledsoe, who will turn 31 before the season starts, played nearly three seasons in Milwaukee and averaged 14.9 points, 5.4 assists and 4.6 rebounds last year as the Bucks' starting point guard. Bledsoe was a first-team All-Defensive selection in 2018-19 and was a second-team selection last season.

He had three years left on a four-year, $70 million extension he signed prior to the 2019-20 season. Bledsoe is owed $16.9 million in 2020-21, $18.1 million in 2021-22, and $19.4 for 2022-23, although the final year is only partially guaranteed at $3.9 million.

Hill, 34, has two years left on his contract. He's set to be paid $9.6 million next season and $10 million the following year, although like Bledsoe, the last year is only partially guaranteed at $1.3 million.

Hill led the NBA after shooting 46.0% from 3-point range last season -- just ahead of Redick's 45.3%. Hill averaged 9.4 points per game as a key reserve for Milwaukee last season.