It's gone completely under the radar but the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks are 11-12 in 2022.

Source: https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIL/2022.html

No surprise that the Bucks are getting a bit more leeway after they were able to break through and win the championship last season but their 2022 performance has been terribly underwhelming. 11 wins and 12 losses is rough for a quarter of the length of a season for a contending team.

As it stands there are 8 teams with a better win-loss record on the entire season than the Bucks and just 0.5 games back are the Celtics, Nuggets and Mavericks.

The funny thing is that I still have confidence that they'll get it together when it matters, similar to the Nets losing 11 straight, we know these teams are talented and can put it together for a big run but right now they aren't producing.

Finally I am a massive fan of Giannis but I feel like people are ignoring this slump and claiming that the only reason he isn't the MVP front runner is voter fatigue. In reality he was 1st in the standings in both his MVP seasons and this years current 9th rank is below par. He's also been put on many DPOY ballots as the front runner for the award despite more impactful defenders like Gobert only playing 4 fewer games and more durable defenders like Jaren Jackson Jr and Mikal Bridges barely missing a game between them.