Jae Crowder had to wait until late February to play his first game of the season. The 32-year-old power forward requested a trade from the Suns last summer and had been sitting out until the team finally sent him to the Bucks in the Kevin Durant trade that involved four teams.
At the end of the day the player is happy that he ended up in Milwaukee and not in Brooklyn where he could not see himself play with the roster that the Nets have.
Via Jake Fischer of Yahoo! Sports:
“I landed where I wanted to land at the end of the day,” Crowder said. “I think I gained just knowing myself as a player and my mental. I never wavered. Never wavered on the process. From a month, to two months … I stayed with the plan of what it was and what I wanted to accomplish. So I give kudos to my mental and me staying sane throughout the entire process, because I did want the process to end fairly sooner than when it did.”
So far Crowder has appeared in four games for the Bucks, averaging 6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 18.7 minutes per game.
