It’s the most wonderful time of the year: frost encrusts the Upper Midwest for the next four months, the Bucks are playing a Christmas day game for the first time since 1977, and of course it’s trade season.
Jon Horst might have beaten the starter’s gun with the trade that brought us cap relief and George Hill, but as a true contender with depth and out-of-place parts the Bucks are going to get wrung through the same rumor mill that awaits all great teams. The chemistry is real and this organization has tighter lips than the yakuza, but the sunken ships of the Eastern Conference and the 24-hour gossip grind will demand more flash riots on a data diet, as we saw last week with Khris Middleton.