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The NBA is in a weird spot. General managers are watching as their teams’ rosters are taking shape without them. Players are relocating thousands of miles away to earn money while they still can. All while progress to eliminate the self inflicted stalemate remains null. Enter today’s Buck Hits. Another week goes by and another [...]
As of late,there has been less and less talk about the actual NBA lockout. Rather, more and more you hear where players are going because of the lockout. This issue of Buck Hits is no exception to this trend. A poorly edited yet in-depth interview with Andrew Bogut is available at HoopsHype. Bogut discusses everything [...]
The NBA news drought continues. The Bucks made some headlines last week, receiving some unrequested spotlight with the departure of Assistant Coach Kelvin Sampson. The rest can be summed up in a few sentences. In an interview with Tom Enlund of JSOnline, Brandon Jennings attempts to encourage fans by stating “I haven’t worked this hard since [...]
Right now, we should be covering Summer League and whether or not Larry Sanders is ready to take that Rookie/Sophomore leap. Instead, the lockout has relegated us to here-say and speculation. Enter this week’s Buck Hits. Charles Gardner writes about Keyon Dooling’s busy offseason as Vice President of the National Basketball Player’s Association. More interesting though is Keyon’s “writing’s [...]
The dust has settled following draft week, and the Bucks’ roster is looking rather different these days.What does the world make of the latest Hammond Shake-up? Enter Buck Hits. There is no shortage of reviews and reactions when it comes to the Bucks’ draft day moves. We’re Bucked has a roundup of national reaction to the [...]
Draft day eve brings two major waves throughout the blogosphere. Mock drafts and trade rumors. For what has been called a weak draft, 2011 is not disappointing in the “size of the wave”. And while we’re not talking about Josh Smith/Dwight Howard tag teams, there has been significant scuttlebutt surrounding the Bucks, a team that [...]
No insightful intro today, just a few Buck Hits. In an interesting amount of local coverage, considering the offseason, JSOnline.com features two recent Op-Eds regarding the Milwaukee Bucks. One is Michael Hunt’s argument for drafting Alec Burks. Even more interesting is the fact that Burks sat out his scheduled workout with the Bobcats due to [...]
While 2 NBA teams duke it out for a shiny trophy, the other 28 are forced to look to the future. Enter today’s Buck Hits. Jeremy already covered the workouts the Bucks are holding today. For a few more tidbits on each player, head over to Bucks.com for their draft workout summary (includes headshots!). The [...]
Arena update: Scott Walker isn’t interested (surprise!) in extending the stadium tax for a new Bradley Center. Milwaukee, at least according to the latest JSOnline poll, isn’t either. This isn’t necessarily surprising given Milwaukee’s noted pessimism regarding the Bucks. Take a look at the last two polls ran by the Journal Sentinel. Jake McCormick takes [...]
2012 Player Capsules: Brandon Jennings
I’m not sure we’ll ever know what happened with Brandon Jennings in early February last season. Milwaukee’s premiere guard was cruising along through the first third of the lockout shortened 2011-12 season. Despite a road heavy early season schedule, Jennings was producing at a level far better than he had in his first two seasons. [...]
2012 Player Capsules: Monta Ellis
There was a trade in the NBA this weekend. You may have heard. The Oklahoma City Thunder made an expectation defying deal that will undoubtedly either end up a brilliant reminder of how smart you have to be to succeed in a small market or a sobering lesson on why small market teams can’t thrive in today’s [...]
2012 Player Capsules: Samuel Dalembert
“I want the team to be one of the top defensive teams. I’ve been to so many training camps and seen coaches focusing on offense, offense, offense. We came here and I’m like, ‘Wow.’ I wanted to hug coach (Scott Skiles). For the first time in seven years, the Milwaukee Bucks starting center isn’t Andrew [...]
2012 Player Capsules: John Henson
From every indication, John Henson is ready to play defense in the NBA. For his sake, I hope that’s true. Because his capability to play defense this year could have quite an impact on his career. Henson is probably going to land on his feet no matter what. He was a very highly regarded high [...]
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