Milwaukee Bucks History: Every Bucks NBA Trade Deadline Deal
By Ti Windisch
The Milwaukee Bucks have not been afraid to make trades at the NBA trade deadline. Here’s every deal the franchise has made on deadline day.
The Milwaukee Bucks have made a lot of moves on NBA trade deadline day over the past few decades. Some recent and past moves are very memorable, such as a franchise player being dealt for pennies on the dollar some 14 years ago.
Some of the deadline deals the Bucks have made, on the other hand, were entirely forgettable. According to RealGM, the Bucks have made trades at 11 different deadlines since 1988, in addition to releasing Eddie Gill back in 2009.
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Considering how most of those 11 deadline days went, Milwaukee might be better off just cutting off the organization’s phones on deadline day. To see the sad history of deadline deals Milwaukee has made, we’ll go through all 11 deadlines, starting with the most recent one and going backwards from there.
Sometimes Milwaukee made more than one deal at a given deadline. Those are like bonus rounds!
Although it may be painful to relive some of these trades, it’s useful to know about a franchise’s past actions. In addition to setting up what happens down the line, this stuff makes for great trivia!
Without further ado, let’s take a stroll through memory lane. It should be noted here that only deadline deals count–Kareem Abdul-Jabbar getting dealt is the most important trade in franchise history, but it’s not listed here because it was not a deadline deal.