The NBA calendar is a funny thing; often enough, the biggest events of the basketball year are only tangentially related to basketball. The NBA Draft. Free agency. The buyout market. Awards season. And our current phase, the NBA trade deadline, which is set for February 10, these are all opportunities for a team to take a chance, make a change, and shift their fortunes ever so slightly, whether it’s to bolster a playoff run or self-sabotage enough to improve lottery odds for draft picks.
The Milwaukee Bucks, still the reigning NBA champions, are struggling relative to expectations.