Kidd is still feeling the sting of his ill-fate trade at the 2015 trading deadline when, with the Bucks seven games above .500 and well on their way to the playoffs, he jettisoned Brandon Knight, the Bucks’ best player and well-respected team leader, to Phoenix.  The Bucks were never the same.  They ended last season seven games under .500.  This season, with thankfully just two games to play, they are a whopping 15 games under .500. 

I’ve also been told by people close to the Bucks’ situation that Kidd, once the golden boy of the organization, is now on shaky ground.  His future with the franchise is clearly cloudy, especially from a coaching standpoint when some highly-regarded and vastly more experienced coaches than Kidd are available.  Can you say Tom Thibodeau? 

Toss in the fact the Bucks will again be shopping Greg Monroe, whom they signed to a max-contract as a free agent last summer, and Michael Carter-Williams, the centerpiece of the Knight deal who has struggled immensely with the Bucks, and this summer promises to be infinitely more fascinating than this debacle of a season. 

The right move

If you’re a faithful reader of this column, the news of Henry Ellenson’s departure from Marquette University to enter the NBA after just one scintillating season hardly comes as a stunning development.