By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Dec 18, 2017 at 6:32 PM

The Milwaukee Bucks assigned forward Jabari Parker to the Wisconsin Herd, their G League affiliate, the team announced today. The Herd are scheduled to practice in Milwaukee on Monday and Tuesday at the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Sports Science Center.

Parker, who tore his left ACL last Feb. 8 and underwent surgery to repair the injury on Feb. 14, has spent the past 10 months recovering and rehabbing. Parker has not yet played this season and he and the team are targeting February for his return to the Bucks.

The fourth-year forward played in 51 games last season, averaging 20.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.0 steals in 33.9 minutes per game.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Parker will not play in Wisconsin’s G League game on Wednesday. He’s just practicing with the Herd while they’re in Milwaukee so he can get some extra time in on the court.

The Bucks made a couple of other roster moves on Monday, too.

Milwaukee requested waivers on guard Gary Payton II and signed guard Sean Kilpatrick to a two-way contract.

Payton, who was signed to a two-way contract on Oct. 17, became expendable because he had run out of NBA-level eligibility after appearing in 12 games with the Bucks. He averaged 2.5 points and 1.4 minutes in 8.8 minutes per game, starting six contests for Milwaukee. In three games with the Herd, Payton averaged 18.3 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.7 steals and 2.3 assists in 33.0 minutes.

Kilpatrick replaces Payton and brings experience and bench scoring to the Bucks. The 6-foot-4 guard played in 16 games with the Brooklyn Nets this season before being waived on Dec. 7, averaging 4.9 points and 2.2 rebounds in 11.4 minutes. Last season with Brooklyn, Kilpatrick set career highs in games played (70) and starts (24), as well as points (13.1), rebounds (4.0) and assists (2.2) per game.

The 27-year-old has appeared in 121 career games over four seasons with the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves and Nets, and holds career averages of 11.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. As a two-way player, Kilpatrick will be eligible to play for the Herd and the Bucks.

Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter

Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.