According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo!, the Milwaukee Bucks have reached an agreement with Indiana Pacers 6-foot-9 swingman Mike Dunleavy Jr.

Free agent forward Mike Dunleavy will sign a two year, $7.5 million deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, league source tells Y! Sports.

Those of you who were Bucks fans during the early to mid-90s will remember how his father ran the organization straight into the ground. And those of you who were Bucks fans in the mid-to-late 80s will remember he also played for the team. Dunleavy Jr., 31, is said to be taking his father’s former number 10 jersey.

Dunleavy Jr. the basketball player is likely to fair better with Milwaukee than his father the general manager/coach.

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The Bucks 2011-12 schedule was released. Again. The month-to-month dynamics haven’t changed much for the Bucks. January is still conspiring against them, except this time they won’t have two months to build a decent cushion. And the Bucks may be too tired after January to mount any sort of a comeback.

I think we can all agree that these scheduling quirks, plus the fact that the Bucks don’t have a superstar yet, prove that the lockout was just a giant anti-Milwaukee conspiracy.

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It begins.

Monday was the first day NBA teams could openly court free agents, and the courting has begun with some gusto. And not surprisingly, the Milwaukee Bucks haven’t been widely rumored to be involved with much of the bidding.

But Gery Woelfel has a few tidbits about potential Bucks targets. Woelfel interviewed long shot Bucks target, Dallas Mavericks forward and Racine native Caron Butler. Butler did not outright rule out the Bucks as a landing spot:

Milwaukee definitely reached out and, obviously, that’s always a high consideration because it’s home. I’m a hometown guy. I’m a guy who always likes coming back and doing things in the community.

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Stephen Jackson was all smiles and hilarious quotes in late June.

It’s been a long time, so you’re forgiven if you don’t recall the colorful flourish Stephen Jackson arrived in Milwaukee with.

And if you remember, kudos to you. Though Jackson made it clear from his introductory news conference that his tenure in Milwaukee, if nothing else, is likely to be one people will remember. The Bucks have used the motto, “Work Hard, Play Hard” for each of the past two seasons, but Jackson did his best to give them something else to consider back in June.

“It’s no time for being babies or being scared. Scared, go to church.”

“Scared, go to church.”

If the Bucks miss the playoffs and Jackson flames out like Corey Maggette, we’ll always have that. Things are always going to be interesting when Jackson is involved. He pledged to be a leader, to be vocal and said he arrived in Milwaukee to win games.

So as you prepare for the return of the NBA and engulf yourself in the trade rumors, free agent activity and madness that’s going to consume the league until training camps open and the season finally is under way, don’t forget about the move Milwaukee already made. The Bucks are likely to be quiet on the free agent front during this shortened free agent frenzy. A backup center may arrive and something must be done on the Luc Mbah a Moute front, but Milwaukee isn’t in the mix for Nene, David West or even Nick Young. The Bucks made their move back in June.

The team hopes in that one June move, they added both the scoring punch and locker room fire sorely lacking throughout the disappointing 2010-11 season.

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Ken Berger reported today that there has been some speculation among agents regarding a three way trade that would send Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers, Andrew Bogut to the Orlando Magic and Andrew Bynum to the Milwaukee Bucks.

Go find the pieces of your head and put it back together like one of those fancy 3D jigsaw puzzles of the world.

This sounds like one of those crazy agent scenarios far too broad and wild to ever come true, but it also might be the very first time a semi-plausible deal has involved Bogut leaving Milwaukee. By semi-plausible, of course that means there is a player returning to the Bucks who has at least enough appeal to make one want to think about what it would be like if he stepped into Bogut’s role.

The last time we saw Andrew Bynum, he was a shirtless, lonely man walking off the court and into the locker room at the American Airlines Center. Fans were ravenously jeering him and Mavericks players had to be restrained from attempting to even the score with him after he inserted his burly forearm into the elfish chest of a mid-air J.J. Barea.

So I’m not so certain a trade that brought him to Milwaukee for long time center and almost All-Star Bogut would go over so well with the fans of a franchise always swimming in the shallow end of the public appeal pool. But that’s not a reason to avoid a trade for a guy.

There are better reasons for that.

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