James Khristian Middleton arrived in Milwaukee as an afterthought.
Today, he left Milwaukee as a legend.
Included alongside Brandon Knight and someone called Viacheslav Kravtsov in a trade that sent Brandon Jennings to Detroit, Khris began his second season in the Association as a Buck. That the trade would come to be known as the Khris Middleton trade epitomizes his transformation from afterthought to star.
His star began to shine bright on the better side of Lake Michigan. His second season with the Bucks was highlighted by banking in a game-winner, a harbinger of good things to come:
It was the first of several, including this classic on a save from Zaza Pachulia:
In parallel with the Bucks as a whole, Khris developed.