Milwaukee Bucks: 2010s All-Decade team by position

The Milwaukee Bucks have seen highs and lows over the past ten years. Who deserves recognition on the “All-Decade” team for the 2010s?

The Milwaukee Bucks have been a franchise for 52 seasons, longer than most, with a median level of play resting just above average. Since their early run of dominance with Lew Alcindor (more well known by “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”) the Bucks have been generally good, but never truly elite.

This past decade has been more of the same for Wisconsin’s basketball squad. Aside from 2013-14, when the team went 15-67, this team won between 31 and 46 games each season of the decade — that is, until 2018-19 when the team leaped to a dominant 60-22 record. The Bucks made the postseason six of ten years, yet won just two playoff series — both last season.

In analyzing the best players of the decade for this franchise, it would be easy to target the current roster, as clearly this collection of players has elevated the Bucks to their highest heights since the 1970s. In doing so one would both skew towards small sample sizes and unduly punish players from earlier in the decade who were talented but without enough help.

The list does lean towards the present as the current roster recognizes the cream of the crop, but it doesn’t ignore contributors from earlier seasons. We begin with one of those players, a point guard who brought the Bucks excitement even if he didn’t bring wins.