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Bucks did what they had to do for Giannis, but road ahead still bumpy


They HAD to do this. Let’s start there.

Yes, the Milwaukee Bucks gave up some assets, and yes they will have a hard time cobbling together a back-end rotation with the meager cap wiggle room left over. But Milwaukee did the only thing it could do, and did so effectively and decisively. It may just salvage this era of Bucks basketball.

In the wake of consecutive playoff failures that expose their lack of high-caliber perimeter play, and with two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo a year away from free agency, the Bucks pulled the trigger on two huge deals on Monday that will bring in guards Jrue Holiday and Bogdan Bogdanovic. One is an All-Star defensive specialist who can also create offense, while the latter is a long-range bomber who mixes in skill off the bounce.

At a stroke, this team’s best five-man unit in playoff game just became significantly better. That, in turn, should make it a lot more palatable for Antetokoumnpo to ink a supermax…





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