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Now that we’re several days past the NBA’s trade deadline, we’re starting to get your reactions on the Bucks’ moves and perhaps the most notable non-move in recent memory. We’ll have more on Milwaukee’s path moving forward with a belated edition of the Tuesday Tracker tomorrow, but for starters, let’s talk about the highest profile Buck and the high profile edition alongside him.
First off is Giannis. It became clearer and clearer as the deadline neared that he wouldn’t be going anywhere, and 32 minutes exactly after it passed, he tweeted out one message: “legends don’t chase. They attract.” He also included the famous meme from Wolf Of Wall Street, where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character tells his company he wouldn’t be leaving. Bobby Portis also mentioned that Giannis texted him simply a deer emoji and a 100 emoji. Bodes pretty well for his future with the Bucks, no? So do you think he’ll put pen to paper when he becomes extension-eligible on October 1?
Then we have the Bucks’ signing of former Nets leading scorer Cam Thomas, which I wrote more about here. It’s a minimum contract, so there’s no financial reason not to fill that fifteenth spot, and why not with someone who is, for all his warts, an absolute bucket? Longtime NBA fans know is drawbacks, though: he’s a bit of a ball-stop, he doesn’t play defense, he gets those points by taking a lot of shot attempts (probably too many). He made a 13-minute debut in Orlando last night, and we’ll see more of him soon, but generally speaking, do you like that the Bucks brought him in?