What's what's up with Chris Middleton. Anybody he's seen him, anybody heard from him.
He missed the first twenty games, he played seven and now he's missed the next twelve. That's bad. That's really really bad. What's going on in Milwaukee. I feel like things are coming apart there a little bit. I was absolutely shocked to see that he's only played seven games this year. He rehabbed his surgically repaired wrist before in
the offseason. He made his return December twelfth, lasted two games before he went out with knie soreness on December fifteenth against the grizz He's been in and out of the lineup since he got shut down at the end of the year. Year and we wonder why the Bucks are not playing very well right now, why they're so inconsistent, why they're up and down. I think they're two and
eight in their last ten, something absolutely obscene. And he's much more important to their success, I think than people realize. And Bucks fans now all of a sudden wanted to trade Chris Middleton, even though Chris Middleton hits clutch shot after clutch shot in playoff situations six and six since he left the lineup, they keep blowing huge leads. And even when Chris Middleton was in the lineup, he wasn't very good.
He was not very good at all. He was really bad.
Actually, I think he was averaging like ten points per game.
No more Bucks dominance.
So the good news is, if you're Bucks fans, is just yesterday Chris practiced five on five. I guess we're just grasping at straws here in terms of like finding good news. That's the first time since the original knee injury. How long until he's back on the court, unknown they say, but they said possibly couple weeks, which.
Probably means All Star break.
Let's be honest, it's probably after All Star break, I would guess is when Milwaukee will try to make their push. Hopefully Chris Middleton is one hundred percent healthy and in condition, but it cannot come too soon, folks. Like the last night the Bucks blew a twenty four point lead to the Hawks. They barely and I just talked about how bad the Hawks are. The Hawks were able to come back from twenty four down and almost win that game when and Yannis Yannis had like sub ten points.
It was awful.
Twenty rebounds in like ten points. One thing is for sure. They need Chris Middleton back. And if Jannie is getting seven to nine points when he's out of the lineup, this team's going absolutely nowhere, absolutely fast. Another Milwaukee Bucks story.
But this is good news. Is Drew Holliday the best human being in the NBA. I don't know, it's very clear he people don't know.
This, but Drew in the pandemic season the twenty twenty one season quietly donated the remainder of his twenty twenty salary after the George Floyd murder two combat systemic racism, so socioeconomic inequality, and then he used his Drew and Lauren Holiday Foundation fund to support everyone from black owned businesses to college scholarships in la Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and New Orleans, which are all the places that he's played.
Right his latest venture though, because that.
Was an amazing story in its own right, something that he did not promote, no one knew about, and went very much under the radar, and something that he didn't need to do. But he's done something now, something even better, I think, well, something interesting. His latest venture, He's created a board game Drew and Lauren, who I could talk about as a couple at nauseum, but I will not. In a board game company with a big idea, a Black Wall Street game that would simultaneously be fun and
challenging as well as teach a valuable historical lesson. The historical lesson that there was a community in Greenwood, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street, that for two decades at the beginning of the twentieth century,
was a huge hub for black investing black finance. It was bustling, doing extremely well, and tragically, the community was wiped out in one of the worst racially targeted attacks in history in nineteen twenty one when YT's were doing white tea things and fucking things up, burning, bombing, and killing three hundred black citizens.
Horrible shit that not enough people know about.
But more than just history, the game really seeks to give young people their first look at how finance works, something that Drew said he never got growing up, and this is what he said. Having this opportunity to educate yourself is really big, especially in the black community, and even young guys, all guys, I feel like, even though they have.
People who can explain stuff to them and all that.
It's just something about self education that I feel is very important and it's actually just not for kids. Drew gifted the game to all four hundred and fifty NBA players for Christmas in hopes that they would share it with their friends, their family, their kids, all that.
CJ.
McCollum, head of the n NBAPA, said this, I'm happy to see us recognizing the history of Black Wall Street. It's very important Black history is in there. It's important that we share and know that. I hope the players seek to learn more about that. It's important to NBA players, especially with the league being eighty to eighty five percent African American a minority, to understand our history.
I'm looking forward to playing that game.
I'm gonna make sure I thank Drew as well as his wife personally. Really cool gesture and it's something that is needed and.
Will be appreciated. So hats off to Drew Holiday.
This will not get enough publicity, but we will give it publicity here. He's one of the fears competitors, one of the best point of attack defenders, but I think probably one of the best human beings, and the LA