Milwaukee Bucks: Revisiting Brook Lopez’s 2019-20 season so far
In his second season for the Milwaukee Bucks, Brook Lopez has solidified himself as the team’s venerable man in the middle on both ends of the floor.
After his grand introduction to the Milwaukee Bucks last season, Brook Lopez had quite the first act to follow.
Lopez was among the many players the Bucks sought to lock down at the outset of free agency last summer following their 60-win season and run to the Eastern Conference Finals before being taken down by the reigning NBA champs, the Toronto Raptors.
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The 32-year-old’s arrival to Milwaukee immediately helped to spark the Bucks’ most successful season in ages and Lopez gave the team a true long-term solution at the center position after a turnstile of options over the last decade.
And after signing one of the best bargain contracts in recent memory, questions of how the Bucks would be able to re-sign the seven-footer were answered by a variety of cap gymnastics and high-profile sacrifices in the lead up to the opening of free agency.
With his long-term future settled in Milwaukee, Lopez, like the Bucks as a whole, built upon the strong foundation he laid down playing next to superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo and under head coach Mike Budenholzer.
That comes with one notable exception, as we’ll soon get into, as we brush back up with what Lopez was accomplishing before the 2019-20 season was suspended, and look at the big question that he’ll have to tackle moving forward throughout the league’s restart.