Jordan Nwora returning to Bucks on two-year contract

The Bucks are bringing back restricted free agent small forward Jordan Nwora on a two-season, $6.2M contract, agents Mark Bartelstein and George Roussakis inform Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link).

The 6’8″ swingman will be Milwaukee’s 15th player inked to a deal on the team’s standard roster. The 24-year-old averaged 7.9 PPG, 3.6 RPG, and 1.0 APG across 62 contests for the Bucks in 2021-22, including 13 starts. He posted shooting splits of .403/.348/.837 last year.

Nwora was selected with the No. 45 pick in 2020 out of Louisville. Though he played a relatively limited role with the club as a rookie, Nwora was a part of the team’s 2020/21 championship-winning roster.

During Bucks Media Day remarks to the press earlier today, team president Jon Horst alluded to the fact that Nwora was slated to join the team for the start of training camp Monday, tweets Jim Owzcarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.