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If you can only buy tickets for one team this year, buy tickets to the Milwaukee Bucks. This team is on a course for a breakout season in 2004-05. This is not the same team as those Buck squads of the past that would stumble around for 82 games, playing as mediocre as possible. This team has all the pieces. They have an unguardable point guard in T.J. Ford. They have the most underrated shooting guard in the NBA in Michael Redd, and they have the number one pick in last years draft, power forward Andrew Bogut.

The Bucks are primed for a big year. A ticket to the Bradley Center means watching a team that has proven stars and young studs merge into a legitimate contender. Things haven’t been this good in Milwaukee since Jack Sikma was in town.

The Bucks have one NBA championship in their history. It was given to them by Lew Alcindor (who became Kareem Abdul Jabbar) and Oscar Roberson. Their team fell apart in 1975, as the Goggled One left for Los Angeles, and Mr. Triple-Double retired.

The Bucks were not able to recover until the mid-eighties when they assembled a team composed of Sidney Moncrief, Terry Cummings, Paul Pressey, and a never-ending array of tall guys with long last names. This team was a perennial playoff threat, but could never get by the great Boston Celtics teams of that era. One by one, the Mokeskis, the Sikmas, the Breurs, and the Krystkowiaks left town, and Milwaukee tanked.

The team resurfaced in the 1999 season, under the tutelage of George Karl. Karl inherited a team of offensive all-stars, and made them play defense. Standouts Sam Cassell, Glen Robinson, and Ray Allen took to Karl’s system, and the team was a regular in the NBA Playoffs until injuries and personnel moves derailed the team in 2002.

With none of the key players from the Karl years remaining, the Bucks are in the middle of building for something big. They have found a legitimate star in Redd, who led his team to the NBA Playoffs again last year. The smooth shooting guard flies under the radar of the national press, but is feared by opposing teams throughout the league. He is joined by a now-healthy T.J. Ford, who has looked like the fastest man in the NBA in preseason games. Bogut adds an inside presence that the Bucks have sorely needed. Get your Milwaukee Bucks tickets now. This year is not to be missed.