former NBA player Vin Baker ran into money issues post career
I remember him going to Boston. That was about the time I completely stopped watching the NBA, maybe 2003? When Vin played for the Bucks, I used to watch on TV once in a while.
I think that I went to one Bucks game after Sidney Moncrief retired in 1989. I got free upper deck tickets for a blood donation in 2009. The Bucks played the 76ers and didn't defend the three point shot in the beginning of the second half. Instead of being a 6 or 7 point game, it was 100-66 at the end of the third quarter. I told my wife that I was getting the car and to meet me at the back door in 5 or 10 minutes, and it would be another 20 years before I came back. I went out the west side atrium after riding the escalator down and walked toward the exit doors. I turned around and there were about 7000 people lined up behind me. It looked like I was leading a parade!
I don't like the new Bucks owners and will never go to another game as long as the 3 of them own the team. One of their wives supports the Milwaukee Film Festival, which is something good for the town. I am sure that the Deer District also helps out a few other businesses that they don't own. I am through with the NBA forever. I am reminded at every Admirals game when I see the vacant lot across the street that was the Bradley Center, built with $91M from the Admirals former owners. That is what 3 billionaires brought to Milwaukee, an empty lot in downtown!
I follow college basketball, particularly Dayton, who would have been a #1 seed last year, Cincinnati, a two time NCAA champion and the Wisconsin Badgers who won the NCAA title in 1941.
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