Richard Jefferson to San Antonio: A Good Idea, Here's Why

The Bucks were thrust into the national sports media spotlight today with reports of a trade with San Antonio involving Richard Jefferson. The rumors turned out to be true, and Jefferson was shipped to the Spurs for Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Amir Johnson.

As far as I'm concerned this trade neither helped nor hurt the Bucks.

Jefferson was set to make big money next season, and the Bucks were already at the salary cap threshold. So yeah, the move is largely financial, which is just slang for boring.

Bowen's contract is up at the end of next season, but I don't expect the Bucks to keep him around for long.

Forgive me, but I could have sworn that Kurt Thomas retired after last season. Oops on that one, welcome to Milwaukee, Kurt!

I know very little of Amir Johnson, but I do know that his upside is huge and that he's still a raw talent at best. 

Overall, the trade helps us for 2009-2010, but here's to hoping that next season produces a few more wins, not to mention some progress from younger players and upcoming draft picks.

R.J. was a good player, but keeping him around didn't actually increase the Bucks chances of going deep into the playoffs. He's certainly a durable player, and I believe his biggest reward to the Bucks was helping us shed dead weight like Bobby Simmons and Yi Jianlian to New Jersey

Hey, at least this frees up playing time for Joe Alexander.

Cool, I guess.