The NBA season is only just beginning, but the Milwaukee Bucks are already on the hunt for a major trade. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, they’ve been calling teams around the league to gauge potential options for an early season trade.
“The Bucks are doing something we don’t see very often, which is scouring the trade market in the first week of November. As I was talking to teams this week they were like ‘The Bucks just called.’ But I think the Bucks right now are just kind of searching. Giannis is not on the table, Dame is not on the table,” Windhorst said on NBA Today. “They’re looking to help out some of their wing play. I don’t think help is on the way through the trade market but they called pretty much the whole league.”
There is no question that the Milwaukee Bucks have been the most disappointing team in the league this season. In fact, since the Bucks first traded for Damian Lillard last summer, they’ve been woefully underperforming.
In their first season together, it was chaos for the Bucks as they scrambled to come together. They fired Adrian Griffin halfway through only to finish with 49 wins. In the playoffs, as Giannis sat out with injury, they lost to the 7th-seeded Indiana Pacers in the first round.
With limited flexibility, the Milwaukee Bucks had no choice but to run it back this summer and hope that a full training camp under Doc Rivers would set the team back on the right path. Instead, so far, it’s been more failure for the Bucks.
Despite the best efforts of Giannis and Lillard, the Bucks are 2-6 this season and are showing some serious flaws on both ends of the floor. This season, they are 18th offensively and 19th in defensive rating across all 30 teams.
With no way out and so much of the season ahead, the Bucks have no choice but to consider the trade market. And while it’s typically rare to see teams begin shopping for deals this early on, the Bucks have already seen enough to know that this current roster isn’t going to get it done.
With a need for added depth on the wing, to cover the often injured Khris Middleton, expect the Bucks to be aggressive in their search all season and they will be involved in various trade rumors between now and February’s deadline.
The biggest question now is whether or not the Bucks can get a player who will move the needle for them. As it stands, the NBA trade market is extremely limited and any trade will demand a big sacrifice of key assets.
Of course, there is no price too steep for the Bucks to keep their stars happy and they’ll be glad to trade away their future in order to help guarantee their success right away. In the best-case scenario, they might even be able to add another star like Jimmy Butler or Zach LaVine to the fold.
For now, nothing is off the table for the Bucks and their next move is just a matter of which team is willing to negotiate first this season. Thanks to Giannis Antetokounmpo, the pressure has never been higher for them to succeed.
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