Michael Hunt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the Bucks are still trying to make a move. If the draft were held today, they would use the 13th pick. But since they have until Wednesday, they are still working the phones trying to acquire a veteran defensive presence that?s been lacking for so long. Bucks general manager Ernie Grunfeld admitted chances of the Bucks moving the pick between now and then are remote at best. "In all likelihood we're going to keep it," Grunfeld said, "but I want to leave that door ajar just a little bit."

Like nearly everyone else in the league, the Bucks are entertaining talks of trading their first round pick, possibly packaged with a veteran player. Using the pick as bait, they will try to add frontcourt help to their perimeter-heavy lineup. Nevertheless, the Bucks could find themselves with the pick because arranging a satisfying trade may not be possible, given the difficulties of matching salaries to make a deal work, finding takers for the players they'd like to move or getting value in return.

If they keep the pick, conventional wisdom says that you draft big. "We're going to take the best available player, but this is a draft that is very strong at the power-forward and big-man positions," Grunfeld said. "We don't know exactly who we're going to pick, but we're going to have our choice of about four or five solid players. We don't know which player is going to fall to us. It's going to be determined by the people in front of us, but we'll get one of them."

With the Bucks? three second-round picks, they may look for a backup point guard. They also may trade the picks for future considerations. A lot of teams are showing interest in some of our seconds, so we might trade one of them,? Grunfeld said. "We're not going to be able to keep all those players on our roster, so we'll explore all those options."