All-Time Top 10 Milwaukee Bucks Trades

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Feb 12, 2016; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; U.S. head coach Larry Drew looks on from the sidelines in the first half during the Rising Stars Challenge basketball game against the World team at Air Canada Centre. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports /

4. Adding The Dobber

Milwaukee Sent: Kent Benson and 1980 17th Pick (Larry Drew)

Detroit Sent: Bob Lanier

The Bucks got away with an absolute steal in a deal that would help to keep pushing them closer and closer to a title that unfortunately never arrived during the 80s.

Kent Benson was the first overall pick in 1977 but had long since proven that he would never be able to live up to that lofty billing, whether it be in Milwaukee or elsewhere.

So for Milwaukee to pick up a player who was still one of the league’s best centers, a seven-time All-Star and a future hall-of-famer in exchange for Benson and the rights to their 1980 mid-first round pick was nothing short of daylight robbery.

Lanier, nicknamed The Dobber, went on to play four-and-a-half effective and influential years with the Bucks before his eventual retirement. The kicker in all of this? That first round pick went on to be none other than future Bucks coach Larry Drew.

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