Predicting Bucks' Most Likely All-Star on New-Look Roster

The Bucks spent the offseason turning their roster upside down.

On June 23, they sent Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis to Miami and got back Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakučionis and a stack of future draft picks.

That trade changed everything about how new coach Taylor Jenkins will build his rotation, and it also reset the conversation around who might represent Milwaukee at All-Star weekend.

Herro stands out above everyone else on this roster, and the case for him only gets stronger with a closer look.

Herro already knows what it feels like to be an All-Star.

He made his first trip to the game in 2024-25 with Miami, averaging 23.9 points a night over 77 games.

A left ankle surgery last September cost him the start of the following year, and he still put up 20.5 points a game on .480 shooting once healthy, finishing with 33 games played according to basketball-reference.com.

Now he walks into Milwaukee as the clear top scoring option, without Jimmy Butler or Bam Adebayo taking touches next to him, and that bump in shots and minutes should push his numbers higher than ever.

Herro sounds like a player who wants that pressure.

"I probably have the biggest chip on my shoulder I've had in my career coming to Milwaukee," he said at his basketball camp this month, a mindset he expanded on in a recent roundtable.io piece on his approach to the season.

Jenkins has leaned into that same competitive edge while building his first training camp, and it fits with how much Milwaukee is counting on Herro to run the offense.

Myles Turner is the other name people bring up, and it makes some sense given he averaged 11.9 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.6 blocks across 71 games last season according to basketball-reference.com.

But Turner has never made an All-Star team in 11 NBA seasons, and his game leans toward spacing the floor and protecting the rim rather than scoring in bunches.

Ware carries real long-term upside at center, and a recent roundtable.io breakdown of players ready for larger roles singled him out for a bigger opportunity, but he is early in his path and unlikely to draw All-Star support this season.

Jaquez Jr., Jakučionis and holdovers like Gary Trent Jr. round out a deeper roster than Milwaukee has had in years, laid out in a full roundtable.io accounting of the offseason moves, but none profile as All-Star level scorers just yet.

Training camp opens September 29, and the Bucks tip off the regular season on October 20, giving Jenkins two months to sort out a rotation built almost entirely from scratch.

Milwaukee is not likely to contend the way it did with Antetokounmpo on the roster, and most of the current outlook has this team fighting for a play-in spot rather than a top seed.

That makes Herro's role even bigger, since a team searching for its offensive identity needs a player who can create his own shot and carry stretches of games alone.

If he stays healthy, Herro gives Milwaukee its clearest, and really its only realistic, All-Star case this season.