Salmons or no Salmons, Bucks will make do

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    "With the kind of stunt they should be teaching against in those sports-management classes, the Chicago Bulls once sent their mascot to the airport to greet free agent Tracy McGrady.

    I can't imagine the Bucks dispatching Bango to Mitchell for recruiting purposes, but maybe they should've in the case of Bobby Simmons.

    Anyway, the Bulls' personnel and business practices have been as awkward as they've been bad ever since Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson left the building. That's why I can't see them signing LeBron James this summer. They'll find a way to call a timeout when they don't have one.

    But what if they do end up with James? What if the Bulls use the $5.8 million they were going to be forced to give John Salmons as a down payment on whatever third-world gross national product James will command?

    Would that be such a game-changer for the division? Maybe it would be a wash, considering how it would consign Cleveland to the lottery. Maybe it would work somewhat in the Bucks' favor if James brought along his caddy, the professional job-hopper and NBA failure John Calipari.

    But how much culpability would the Bucks assume if James decides to follow MJ's act a dozen years after it last vacated the United Center?

    We've been through most of this before. The Bucks knew the risks when they gave the Bulls cap room in exchange for Salmons, who may or may not be back next season now that his player option is worth considerably more than it was in Chicago.

    If you'll pardon the indulgence, the Bucks were like a salmon swimming upstream with that trading-deadline move. It was unconventional, a tad controversial, but without it, they wouldn't have made the playoffs and taken the No. 3 seed to seven games in the first round."

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