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Oh, how quickly empires fall.
For the longest time, I would try to carve out an opening in my writing schedule for at least one or two games against the Bucks. Even when the Spurs were at their worst, I wanted to see what would happen.
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The Bucks served as a measuring stick for me; a team with the right mixture of talent and discipline to tell me exactly what the Spurs were (and were not) capable of.
I envied their draft heist in the form of Giannis Antetokounmpo, feeling less than optimistic about San Antonio’s chances of lucking into another franchise-altering big man. I admired the aggression and shrewdness of the acquisition that had given them arguably the NBA best all-around guard in Jrue Holiday, a player I’d wanted on the Spurs since his days at UCLA.
I watched them play basketball in the vaguely Spurs-ish way that Popovich protege Mike Budenholzer employed at every stop along the way, and tried to summon visions of a Spurs team that would play that well (or better) in the near future.
I cannot blame my imagination for having failed me at the time. It was a grim time to be writing about the Spurs. I saw franchise favorites flipped for assets. I witnessed losing streaks never before seen in the history of the franchise. I cannot say that it was fun, though I did my best to make it so.
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And yet, I was always watching for that moment when things might fall into place. Those moments that the Spurs would exceed the sum of their very humble parts, and take advantage of the strangeness of a long NBA season.
The one thing about losing seasons is that you’re surprised by certain victories in a way that you can’t be about a contender. I clung to those minor miracles, and they got me through it.
Now the returns to Milwaukee remind me of the fickleness of fortune.
We like to believe that the NBA is a meritocracy, but sometimes it’s just not. Seemingly abandoned by the fates of a previous half-decade, Bucks management is paralyzed regarding what feels like an unresolvable exit trajectory for their aging superstar player, torn between the promising mystique of future assets and the hope that…
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Publish date : 2026-03-28 07:30:00
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