Khris Middleton Appreciation Thread - Khris Thanks The City and Fans - Page 5

[MickeyDavis]

Can we please keep this as the KHRIS MIDDLETON APPRECIATION THREAD? You guys want to go off on other tangents put it in the team thread.

Thanks.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Can we please keep this as the KHRIS MIDDLETON APPRECIATION THREAD? You guys want to go off on other tangents put it in the team thread.

Thanks.

my bad if im contributing to that.

but for the record....to me....and the numbers back this up in alot of ways..... he was the most clutch badass playoff performer in the history of the franchise. his career numbers youd think we was a superstar or something. the time of year other guys numbers dropped...his efficiency numbers held on much higher volume. his career efficiency mirrors his playoff efficiency.....only his minutes and usage increased. for a non hof type shooter/scorer its kinda nuts really.

so yeah....him being stupid in the playoffs. its his legacy to me. guys want to say i have an agenda with khris. hell right i do

[ShootingtheJ]

Wow i dont get emotional reading these goodbye letter from players but damn that was a amazing letter from kris god speed kris .Ill say welcome back to milwaukee in about 2 or 3 years

Next season, full MLE. It'll be the best MLE signing in the league.

His absence will be obvious come playoff time.

[jakecronus8]

I appreciate Khris’s 2021 playoff run and having a little run where he owned the Celtics

[Jez2983]

Even last year, he really played pretty damn well in the playoffs.

His 51 point game against Washington was great fun too. He outplayed Beal in that one, at a time a few of us (me included) were entertaining trading them.

I love this man. He's still an NBA player.

[Ron Swanson]

Was at the 51-point game against the Wizards with a friend. We both thought we needed to be there because we knew they were gonna do some sort of Kobe tribute at the time (this was a day or two after the crash). Little did we know that Kobe's soul would inhabit Khris' body for an entire 48-minutes that night.

It was this perfect, once in a lifetime event as a Bucks fan. Here we were, bummed that Giannis was a late scratch for the game, but in true Khris fashion that we would later come to expect during the championship run, he stepped up when our star was out and while we as basketball fans were hurting. Since that day, Khris always stepped up in the biggest moments when the team needed him. That's how I'll remember his Bucks career and what a wild thing to say about a guy that was constantly denigrated for so many years as never being an ideal "#2 on a championship contender".

[crkone]

One of my favorite stories about Khris. He was a warrior, constantly battling against his own body.

Games are different, and Middleton wasn't himself when he returned in February 2017. He averaged 14 points on 40 percent shooting as Toronto eliminated Milwaukee in the first round.

He played that series through severe strep throat. Abscesses -- collections of pus -- developed along the inside of his throat. He couldn't eat solid foods; he subsisted on smoothies. He couldn't turn his head side-to-side. Middleton's father stayed with him; Middleton texted him even when they were in the same house.

"I was shocked he played the last game," Flanagan says.

After that game, Middleton went to the hospital for an IV. Middleton's father and a nurse then held him down -- one arm each -- while a doctor stuck a needle down his throat to drain pus and blood.

[GoldenAntlers]

One of my favorite stories about Khris. He was a warrior, constantly battling against his own body.

Games are different, and Middleton wasn't himself when he returned in February 2017. He averaged 14 points on 40 percent shooting as Toronto eliminated Milwaukee in the first round.

He played that series through severe strep throat. Abscesses -- collections of pus -- developed along the inside of his throat. He couldn't eat solid foods; he subsisted on smoothies. He couldn't turn his head side-to-side. Middleton's father stayed with him; Middleton texted him even when they were in the same house.

"I was shocked he played the last game," Flanagan says.

After that game, Middleton went to the hospital for an IV. Middleton's father and a nurse then held him down -- one arm each -- while a doctor stuck a needle down his throat to drain pus and blood.

I feel like this entire board would have been less critical of him if we had known this at the time.

[CannondaleF400]

Biggest thing that bothers me about Khris being gone is I wish we had run it back again with Jrue and Coach Bud. Number 1 overall record in 2022-23 then Giannis gets injured and basically misses 3 games in the first playoff series, in which he misses 13 free throws in the close-out game losing by 2, all while the coach deals with a devastating family tragedy. Firing Coach Bud undeservedly was the first domino to fall that led to Khris getting shipped out unceremoniously. Khris deserved a better ending to his career as a Buck.