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Milwaukee Bucks: How Mike Dunleavy Sr. was lured away from the Los Angeles Lakers

By the turn into the 1990’s, the Milwaukee Bucks’ glory days stood firmly in the rearview mirror.

The legends, cornerstones and key pieces that made the Bucks’ high point as a franchise throughout the 1980’s what it was had all moved on to greener pastures around the league or had called it quits entirely.

After having held on to the bitter end, it was in the 1991-92 season when the Bucks had come face to face with the unknowing future as Del Harris, the successor to the team’s winningest head coach in franchise history in Don Nelson, stepped down as head coach 17 games into the campaign.