Pregame Originally uploaded by bbuchs. I've just gotten around to this whole "flickr" thing. It's pretty damn cool. http://www.flickr.com/ I'll post more about this later. In the meantime, enjoy this photo of the boys from last summer's "Mr. Risk: Chicago" weekend.
Milwaukee made 2 trades just before the deadline today. Gone are K.V.H. and Mike James (along with some cash money, american); in are Reece Gaines, Calvin Booth, and Alan Henderson - and 2 second round draft picks. Booth and Henderson are both as good as gone next year. I think Gaines will hang around for a while, and might turn out to be a good player. But the real reason for these trades was to clear up some cash money for Michael Redd this summer. Discuss amongst yourselves.
It had completely slipped my mind until Judy reminded me at 3:00 yesterday, but we were invited to go to the Milwaukee Bucks/New Jersey Nets game at the Bradley Center last night. Oh, and we'd be sitting in Herb Kohl's suite. I would estimate that of the last 10 basketball games (MU and Bucks) I've seen at the "BC", at least 6 of them have been from a suite. It's the only way to go. To quote Ferris Bueller, "It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up." Our good friends Sean and Lucia were able to obtain 4 seats in the box via a charity auction for the clinic Lucia works ...