Eventually, Milwaukee coach George Karl hopes, the Bucks will play host to a Martin Luther King Day matinee game.

Until then, Karl will continue to be a human pinball, careening between wherever it is the Bucks are playing that day and Milwaukee, the site of his annual King Holiday Hoopfest Celebration.

Such is the case again today, when the streaking Bucks, winners of a season-high seven consecutive games, are in the outer Detroit suburbs to play the Pistons.

Except that Karl left the team Sunday after a comeback victory at Atlanta to attend early festivities connected to the six-team high school tournament his foundation, Friends of Hoop, will sponsor tonight at the U.S. Cellular Arena.

Karl attended the free King Community Breakfast for 600 children Sunday morning at the Hyatt Regency, as well as the Sankofa Treasure Hunt that afternoon at the hotel. He then rejoined the Bucks before their game this afternoon against the Pistons.