Even Trade

The exchange is best treated as broadly even once role, timing and asset quality are considered. Milwaukee received Gary Gregor from Philadelphia and gave up cash plus a 1973 second-round pick that became No. 33 Gary Melchionni. The important structural correction is that Phoenix was not a direct Bucks counterparty: Philadelphia separately sent the same pick to Phoenix in a distinct transaction. Removing the false three-team framing closes two artificial routing conflicts and prevents downstream pick lineage from being double-counted as a Bucks the other team leg. The B grade remains appropriate because the direct Milwaukee-Philadelphia value exchange itself was modest.