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Article: Bucks' value increases with success
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2001
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Bucks' value increases with success
Playoff run helps make the cash registers ring
By DON WALKER
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Thursday, May 10, 2001
Its playoff games are sold out, fans want to buy Milwaukee Bucks
jerseys and the nation's basketball fans are getting a taste of the
Big Three.
And one other thing. The Milwaukee Bucks just got more valuable as
a franchise.
That doesn't mean owner Herb Kohl has any interest in selling his
team, which Forbes magazine estimated last year was worth $131
million.
Kohl has indicated many times that he has no plans to sell any
time soon. And when the day comes, he will sell only to someone who
is committed to keeping the team in Milwaukee.
But in the ...