Also, just a casual reminder Bucks leadership waived/stretched Dame and took this Trent risk because of a belief in Doc Rivers to deliver a contender

It is so funny to me that an NBA player and all the pride that entails woke up to the league itself saying, “nah, this can’t be right. You suck.”

Sir, a second endorsement deal has hit the Kawhi/Clippers scandal

Burries looking like a second year player who is a full step ahead of everyone on the floor

Surprised he didn’t put Nori in general admission

So the Bucks guaranteed Gary Trent an extension last year to go for a title and chose not to fire Doc in December because… The more you look, the worse this gets. The org took this risk—almost $40m in dead cap for four years—for Doc freaking Rivers!

It’s so undermining to Taylor Jenkins’s whole accountability message to have Gary Trent on that team with that contract. A total charity case

Bucks should self-report tampering. Honestly better to give up 2 seconds than have Trent on that deal

Just a joke of a front office move from the Bucks. Not saying Gary is fully dead cap, but with Dame this is functionally $40m for the next four years that can’t do anything for them. Would have been cheaper to fire Horst and Doc and say “yeah they don’t work here.”

And here I thought the Bucks were the messiest franchise in the Giannis saga

“Heads up play by Burries” is something Bucks fans should hear a lot

Next Bucks era semi-starts today. Fun lineup

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This is a great litmus test for if someone should stay on the Bucks roster: Are they a realistic veteran buyout guy you’d get excited about for previous Bucks rosters? If so, doesn’t belong on the team

The Detroit Pistons are trading Caris LeVert and two second-round picks to the Milwaukee Bucks for Taurean Prince and Gary Harris, sources tell ESPN. Pistons will create a trade exception from the deal and savings while Bucks acquire LeVert and pick up assets.

I’d love an interesting young guy like Watson or Kuminga on a rebuilding Bucks team, but we’re going to get Gary Trent complaining for another year about his shots and have to deal with it

Post from the bad site that does a good job explaining a big part of why US player dev is broken. Clubs have some really wack incentives

We all need to make some space for Bobby appreciation too. Milwaukee legend forever

Today is the first of many days realizing how special the Giannis/Milwaukee relationship was. Unique. Exceptional. Truly a once in a lifetime experience for a sports fan. Nothing going forward will be like it.

The Heat will never have this guy, and we'll always have this journey. To the next moment, the next story, the next right now, the next Bucks in 6.

you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us

FIFA is so corrupt it’s amazing

HE BACK!!! www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

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Wow even the crowd doesn’t want to be around Alexi Lalas

The analytics NERDS won

There’s gotta be another shoe here for Boston to drop. In isolation this is crazy.

I tell you what Hugo Gonzalez better be an all-star this season

If GTJ actually gets a meaningful extension it would have been cheaper to just fire Horst and actually tell Klutch “yeah, neither guy you talked to about that works here.”

Paying 2/3 of what it’d take to get Giannis for Walker Kessler is certainly a choice

Shams is bad at explaining things, so here’s how I think the opt-in-not-out thing works: Either side has the ability to guarantee that year. Goal is both sides talk to each other in the offseason to revisit a new deal.

No intel here, but if you’re the Bucks would you give up Jacquez for Dort as part of the GA deal? Was just thinking the Bucks don’t really have a locker room chemistry leader yet to set the tone.

My Bucks free agency take is if it’s not Kuminga I imagine they leave the MLE alone and use it to take in salary at the deadline. Also zero worries about the “roster crunch.” $33m under the tax. Just cut guys and move along. (I am worried about a lengthy GTJ deal)

Horst in two years: “I am using this TEAM option to ask the PLAYER if we should pick it up”

But there is NO tampering! He has ZERO idea where will offer him a contract. Just that not all who wander are lost. He wants to be wild and free. Live laugh love.

Zlatan and Henry clowning Lalas is in its third week and it is just as fun as the first day

There is a lot that’s awful about this World Cup. The 48 team format rules.

Why did they show Ed Norton standing there alone? Who was he talking to?

Stop. Telling me. The fifteen-year old stadium. Needs to be rebuilt.

Burries said he can’t wait to learn from the vets like KPJ and Kuz Oh no you don’t!

Bucks playing party music before this rookie press conference

It is officially BLT season. Welcome.

Jenkins’s presser telegraphed this team would compete on both ends, and lo and behold they drafted two-way competitive types. What they can do without draft capital and a ton of talent is set a culture. My guess is Herro goes and Turner/Kuz stay. Two-way effort guys > raw talent

A larger takeaway from @jimowczarski.bsky.social ‘s piece: The magic it takes to win a title is so, so fleeting. Anything can happen because athletes and orgs are people. It don’t take much to shift a vibe, and events compound over years.

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

This is an absolute heater from @jimowczarski.bsky.social and Lori Nickel. Local reporting done over years. This is the best article written on Giannis’s situation out there. This is why you subscribe to local publications.

Also guys in the back half of the first get moved sometimes post-draft as teams gear up to, y’know, try next year.

To my mind, there are four first round quality players left: Labaron Philon Karim Lopez Chris Cenac Cam Carr

Okorie is a good pick. Going to look back in three years and wonder how we didn’t see it (even if it’s not all-star level)

I'm still really not sold on Ament but I like it a lot better at 13 than 10. You take your vitamins with a guy like Burries and then you can have a little fun with a guy like Ament.