NEW YORK -- Two superb NBA stories of late implicate the Milwaukee Bucks, which is why you've read or heard precious little about them.
Despite boasting an unadulterated All-Star in Michael Redd -- unrecognizable at his own dinner table until his coming out party in L.A. in which Rick Carlisle set up a possible game-tying trifecta in his honor -- the Bucks essentially are a company of hand-me-downs.
In fact, if not for rookie stylist Terry Porter earning a modicum of national consideration for coaching honors, nobody outside of Wisconsin would have known his geeked-up band of overachievers were fourth in the East and several games north of the equator.
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