How many ways is the the Bucks - Pistons trade bad for the Nets? Detroit sending Caron Butler and Shawne Williams to Milwaukee for Ersan Ilyasova forecloses any possibility that Brooklyn can dump Joe Johnson on the Pistons. It also means that the Pistons have given up on Greg Monroe, who will now be pursued by the Knicks. And Marc Stein writes Friday, the Bucks with their huge $28 million in cap space will go after Brook Lopez.
League sources say the Bucks want a proven center in free agency if they can score one, and have pinpointed two kinds of former All-Stars -- Dallas' Tyson Chandler and Brooklyn's Brook Lopez -- as targets for the top of their wish list.