Milwaukee Bucks: Best Players that were traded away

The Milwaukee Bucks have made some good trades over the years, but also some that have left us scratching our heads for years. Today, we look at the best players ever traded away.

I have already written before about the best players traded away from the other professional teams in Wisconsin and you can read the Packers one here and the Brewers one here, but I assure you that the Milwaukee Bucks’ is the most star-studded and therefore depressing.

The NBA trade deadline is here and with the Bucks firmly in first place in the Eastern Conference, they will probably not make much of a splash at the deadline, and possibly not make any moves at all.

Staying with the squad they have now is probably the best option, because even though Jon Horst hasn’t given up any future great players (unless Thon Maker develops into the MVP that Kevin Garnett thinks he can be), he wouldn’t want to make that mistake in the middle of a championship window.

Since the Milwaukee Bucks were founded in 1968, they have been trading away top talent, sometimes getting a solid return, and sometimes receiving almost nothing back. We’ll start all the way back in 1975 with the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar trade and work our way all the way up to Tobias Harris being shipped out to get J.J. Redick in a futile attempt to win a playoff game with a pseudo-big three of Redick, Brandon Jennings, and Monta Ellis.

There will be eight players discussed, arbitrarily divided into pre-Dirk and post-Dirk trades. So without further ado, let’s get started with the trades of old.