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Greg Monroe started the 2016-17 NBA season as a second-unit staple for the Milwaukee Bucks. Now, however, he appears to be an afterthought, and following Milwaukee’s Saturday night loss to the Golden State Warriors, he didn’t sound happy about it. Per Charles F. Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: [tweet https://twitter.com/cf_gardner/status/800210457583874048] [tweet https://twitter.com/cf_gardner/status/800210591629463552] These answers [...]

Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies and Milwaukee Bucks for being absolutely awesome. According to Zach Lowe and Marc Stein of ESPN.com, none of these teams are expected to stay in Trump-brand hotels, the commercial child of president-elect Donald Trump, when they play in Chicago and New York: At least three NBA teams have [...]

Greg Monroe has been the subject of trade rumors for a long, long time, and yet there’s a chance he’ll stick with the Milwaukee Bucks for the next two years. Milwaukee has failed to move the big man thus far, which comes as no surprise, given that he’s a defensively challenged tower who doesn’t space [...]

John Stockton isn’t heard from much around NBA circles these days—at least not to universal public knowledge. The Hall of Fame point guard seems to prefer life outside the spotlight. That, however, didn’t prevent him from working with the Milwaukee Bucks at head coach Jason Kidd’s request during their training camp. As new team member [...]

Word came down over the weekend that the Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks had come to an agreement on a trade to send Michael Carter-Williams to the Bulls in exchange for Tony Snell. It became official Monday morning. [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/788029771670183940] Carter-Williams had been a huge disappointment for the Bucks since trading for him at the [...]

The Milwaukee Bucks stood together in a show of “unity” during the national anthem before Monday’s preseason opener against the Chicago Bulls. The Bucks stood in a line arm in arm. Some players and coaches kept their right hands on their hearts as the anthem played. “It’s not a protest,” Kidd said. “We’re not protesting. [...]

It looks like the Greg Monroe will be a member of the Milwaukee Bucks to start the 2016-17 NBA regular season. But not by choice, for either party. From Gery Woelfel of the Racine Journal Times: Multiple NBA sources told me the Bucks accelerated their attempts to trade Monroe this summer — even though from [...]

Raise your hand if you had the soon-to-be 39-year-old Jason Terry snagging a new contact before the 28-year-old Ty Lawson. It seemed, at times, that the 17-year veteran guard would be forced to retire this summer. We’re now in late August, a return to the Houston Rockets was clearly out of the question, and rumors [...]

The Milwaukee Bucks’ attempts to shop Greg Monroe make up the worst-kept secret in the NBA—because it’s not a secret. Monroe doesn’t fit what the Bucks are trying to do. He is a defensive liability, and his post game isn’t as valuable to a team that can’t surround him with a ton of shooters. The [...]

According to multiple reports coming out of Milwaukee, the Bucks have made 26-year-old center Greg Monroe “very available” on the open market. [tweet https://twitter.com/GM_Hoops/status/744966334371495936] Monroe averaged 15.3 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists in just under 30 minutes per game in his first season as a Buck after signing a three-year, $50 million contract in [...]