NBA Rumors: Jae Crowder to get Kings training for 2024-25 season after Bucks era | News, scores, highlights, stats & rumors

Jae Crowder could be on the road again.

According to Sean Cunningham of Fox 40 in Northern California, the veteran forward will work out with the Sacramento Kings this week.

Crowder, 34, has had a mixed impact for the Milwaukee Bucks over the past two seasons, playing in just 68 games and averaging 6.4 points and 3.4 rebounds per game.

He was called up to starting duty 25 times in the 2023-24 season, filling in for the likes of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton when they were injured. But staying healthy has been an issue for Crowder himself, as a left adductor injury kept him out for two months between mid-November and mid-January.

Crowder told Eric Nehm of The Athletic in January that the injury felt like an uncomfortable “pulling sensation” in his pelvis.

“To the point where every time I stretch to run, I feel like in Orlando… I felt like I couldn’t move,” he continued. “I couldn’t pull my (left) leg up without some kind of pain. Like I had put myself out of the race. It got to that point. I went back and I was cursing, but I knew I was toast. I knew this thing was pulled. I knew that was the worst I had ever felt up to that point.”

While Crowder was largely an afterthought in the 2022-23 season, he played a more significant role for the Bucks last year. But the Bucks decided to surround the trio of Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard and Khris Middleton with a new supporting cast.

Before Milwaukee, Crowder had stops with the Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz, Miami Heat, Memphis Grizzlies and Phoenix Suns. If he impresses enough to earn a contract offer, the Kings will be added to that list.