What Happens If Milwaukee Bucks Keep Winning?

The Milwaukee Bucks have not folded in the absence of Jabari Parker. If the team continues to win games, what does it mean for the team and for Parker moving forward?

The Milwaukee Bucks enter the All-Star break on a bittersweet note. While the NBA world loves a neat, feel-good narrative — or similarly, an equally obvious disaster (hello, New York Knicks!) much of the time the scale is balanced somewhere in between.

That applies for Milwaukee as well, which is holding the good and bad as it takes a week off.

Just one week ago the organization discovered one of its rising stars, Jabari Parker, suffered a torn ACL against the Miami Heat and would need a full 12 months to recover. In losing to the Heat and the Lakers two nights later, the Bucks hit rock bottom.

Not only were they eight games below .500, but they were 11th in the Eastern Conference with the playoffs vanishing in the distance.

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Three games later, and the Bucks enter the break on a three-game winning streak. That brief successful run includes victories over the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons, two teams ahead of them in the standings.

Instead of 11th in the East, the Bucks are now ninth and just one game back of Detroit for the eighth and final playoff berth. The Chicago Bulls are just another half game beyond them.

Which is a clearer indication of the Bucks moving forward? Are they the team struggling to stop opponents or the team locking teams down to sub-20 point quarters? Do they have a hole at power forward or a collection of versatile talent waiting to be utilized?

Those questions will be on hold for a week, but the implications are already swirling. If the Bucks can ride this recent momentum and strike amidst a faltering Eastern Conference, the playoffs are clearly in reach. What else will it mean if the Milwaukee Bucks keep winning basketball games?