The Milwaukee Bucks navigate a tightrope, in a hyperpartisan state.
There’s a reason President Trump and former Vice President Biden have crisscrossed Wisconsin, over and over, in recent weeks. A U.S. presidential election that teeters on a knife’s edge, and which has hundreds of millions of people at each other’s figurative throats, could well tip on the electoral results from the Badger State next week.
In that space, Milwaukee Bucks vice president Alex Lasry and guard George Hill — a fierce advocate for the Black Lives Matter movement that dominated the thoughts of most players in the 22-team Orlando bubble — walked the streets of downtown Milwaukee last weekend, trying to get people to vote. They walked with members of the grassroots organization Common Ground, the local advocacy group that had clashed with the team’s new ownership trio — including Lasry’s father, Marc — soon after they bought the team in…
