Milwaukee Bucks interested in signing Carlos Boozer

The Milwaukee Bucks reportedly have interest in Carlos Boozer.

The Milwaukee Bucks have interest in signing veteran free agent power forward Carlos Boozer in a what would likely be a mentor role to the this young team, per Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports.

The Bucks’ decision to look at signing the veteran free agent Boozer may stem from the embarrassing night club incident involving some of the team’s players. Milwaukee is a tremendously young team and it wasn’t the under 21 crowd of superstars on their roster that had a very public trip to Ace of Diamonds gentlemen’s club in Los Angeles on Monday.

The next night, Bucks were promptly crushed by the lowly Los Angeles Lakers, 113-95. Milwaukee ended up going 0-2 on their two-game road trip in Los Angeles, falling to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night, 103-90.

Last season under new head coach Jason Kidd, the Bucks were a top five defensive team, earned the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs, and took their division rival in the Chicago Bulls to six games in the first round. Keep in mind that Milwaukee won only 15 games in 2013-14 and had the second overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.

Entering Thursday night, the Bucks are 10-17 and in 13th place in the super-competitive Eastern Conference. The only two teams worse than the Bucks so far this season in the East are the Brooklyn Nets (7-18) and the Philadelphia 76ers (1-26).

Kidd is a former superstar player and probably has a great deal of respect for the competitive Boozer. Boozer played collegiately at Duke and starred for both the Bulls and the Utah Jazz before assuming a reserve role with the Lakers in recent seasons.

Milwaukee could use a hard-working veteran like Boozer and the Bucks may choose to bring him aboard to try to save their season. Even at 10-17, the Bucks are only five games back of a playoff spot and only eight back of the first-place Cleveland Cavaliers in the East.