This is my first piece for Brew Hoop, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to start. When I wrote my very first post about the Milwaukee Bucks back in 2002 on a small Polish basketball forum, it was about Desmond Mason. That moment, and that name, sparked something that’s stayed with me ever since. Two decades later, I’m proud and genuinely moved to begin this new chapter with the same story that started it all.
A quiet trade that changed everything
It was February 2003—a month that was supposed to be like any other, but for me, it turned out like a small earthquake in my private landscape of sports obsessions.