The Milwaukee Bucks are the worst team in the NBA, with an 18% winning percentage. They’re so bad that there’s a nine point winning percentage gap between them and the NBA ‘s penultimate team, the Orlando Magic. The joke we have in Chicago is: “Milwaukee Bucks: Milwaukee’s Big Ten Team.”
The Milwaukee Bucks don’t have a lot of Big Ten players on their roster, we’re just parodying the silly marketing slogan of NU – “Northwestern: Chicago’s Big Ten Team.”
Given that the Bucks are as hot as the weather, attendance at the Bradley Center is deservedly hurting. So the Milwaukee Bucks are making a desperate ploy for some fans and some attention. Because right now they rightfully have very little of both.
From the Milwaukee Bucks daily mailing sent out to media covering the Milwaukee Bucks (and you know you’ve arrived as a journalist when you’re on the Milwaukee Bucks media list!):
Amidst cancellations and closings, the Bucks game is still on and it IS played indoors – come out and give visitors from southern California a hearty Wisconsin winter welcome
FREE FREE FREE – The Bucks are providing FREE hot chocolate for all fans in attendance tonight! Enjoy FREE hot chocolate while giving our visitors from Los Angeles a hearty winter welcome!
That’s a pretty clever ploy by the Milwaukee Bucks marketing!
They’re also giving away 10,000 vouchers for free tickets to local kids as the schools are closed today. Tonight’s contest with the Clippers will also see nose bleed seat prices cut in half, and $3 Coors before the game. So you can come and watch this team and have an endless debate about what’s worse: the weather outside or the Milwaukee Bucks? An offense run by Luke Ridnour or the polar vortex?
Paul M. Banks is the owner of The Sports Bank.net, an affiliate of Fox Sports. An MBA and Fulbright scholar in media studies, he’s also an analyst for multiple news talk radio stations across the country; with regular weekly segments on NBC and Fox Sports Radio. President Barack Obama follows him on Twitter (@paulmbanks)