Milwaukee Is Imploding And The Co-Owner Just Made It Worse

And then, because the universe apparently isn't done with Milwaukee, the co-owner side of the franchise got dragged into a story that reads like a Netflix limited series pitch. Wesley Edens, who is worth a reported 2.5 billion dollars, allegedly ended up in a blackmail situation that started, of all places, in his LinkedIn DMs. The woman reportedly tried to walk away with half his fortune after they hooked up. Half. Of 2.5 billion.

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Crazy Story Details Bucks Co-Owner Wesley Edens Getting Blackmailed By An Insane Woman He Originally DM’d On LinkedIn, Who Tried To Get Half Of His $2.5B Fortune After They Had Sex

You cannot script a worse 72 hours for one organization. The best player wants out, the owner is in a tabloid, and the only thing holding the franchise together right now is the fact that the season is already over so nobody has to take the floor and answer for any of it. Barstool's main account summed up the vibe about as cleanly as anyone could.

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It's been a bad, bad week for the Bucks. t.co/EBfDZrmBOO

The scary part for Milwaukee is that the Giannis story and the Edens story aren't really connected, and that's somehow worse. Two completely separate disasters landing in the same news cycle means there isn't one single fire to put out, there are two, and neither one has an obvious off-ramp. Buckle up, because if the front office actually starts taking Giannis calls, this week is going to look like the calm part.