MILWAUKEE -- Larry Drew could have sulked during his last season in Atlanta, complained to anyone who would listen about being a lame duck despite a winning record and three straight playoff appearances. He never did. "When you stay in this game as long as I have, the most important thing is you dont take a negative situation and keep it negative," Drew said. "I thought I would get something positive of it." That came Monday, as Drew was introduced as the new coach of the Milwaukee Bucks six days after his awkward tenure with the Atlanta Hawks ended with the hiring of his replacement. Drew has a three-year deal with the Bucks, and the team has an option for a fourth season. "I am very, very excited about being here, I really am," Drew said. "Im going to do everything in my power to put this group together as fast as possible, to making us competitive, to making sure these guys are in tune with each other. If I do that, chances are were going to be a pretty good basketball team." If not, hell have to answer to his uncle. Drews uncle, Norman Johnson, has lived in Milwaukee for 49 years, and he joined the coach, his wife and the couples two younger sons for Mondays news conference. "Ive been a Bucks fan ever since the Bucks have been here," Johnson said. "Im very proud of him," Johnson added. "I hope he continues his good work. I think he will." Drew was 128-102 in Atlanta, and the Hawks reached the post-season in each of his three seasons. His first year, they upset Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic in the first round and then took the Chicago Bulls to six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals. They reached the playoffs again last year despite having Al Horford for only 11 games. And he did perhaps his finest job this season. Despite knowing he would be out of a job at the end of the year as new general manager Danny Ferry remakes the team, losing All-Star Joe Johnson to an off-season trade and seeing Lou Williams and Zaza Pachulia go down with season-ending injuries, Drew led Atlanta to a 44-38 record. The Hawks took Indiana to six games before losing in the first round of the playoffs. "I feel very good about who I am as a coach," Drew said. "You give me some guys who are willing to play hard every night, who are committed to playing for one another, who are committed to playing for the city, I guarantee you Ill give you a group you can be proud of." Drew repeatedly stressed the importance of building relationships with his players, a quality general manager John Hammond had made a priority after Milwaukees late-season collapse. The Bucks lost 12 of their last 16 games to finish with a losing record for a third straight season, then were swept by the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs, losing all four games by double digits. Teaching Xs and Os is no longer enough, Drew said, and one of the things he was most proud of during his time in Atlanta was that his players always knew he had their backs. In fact, as Drew was flying to Milwaukee on Sunday, he got a congratulatory text message from Atlanta guard Kyle Korver. "Thats not going to change. Im going to do the exact same thing coming here to Milwaukee," Drew said. "Were going to become buddies. Were going to become good friends." He plans to start reaching out to his new players immediately, starting with John Henson. The rookie had planned to be in Milwaukee later this week, but re-arranged his schedule so he could be here in time for Drews news conference. "You get on the coachs side right away," Drew joked, drawing laughs. "I think hes going to be a real good fit," Henson said. "Hes just what we need. Hes a player relationship guy and the players are going to know their roles." Drew said hes not committed to a specific offensive style -- "Im not a big fan of predictability. Offensively, I think thats very easy to defend." -- but Milwaukees two young big men, Henson and Larry Sanders, will have big roles. Sanders made huge strides in his third season, more than doubling his scoring average (9.8 points) and grabbing more rebounds (672) than he had in his first two years combined. Henson, a rookie, showed his potential with a monster game April 10 in Orlando, flirting with a triple-double with 25 rebounds, 17 points and seven blocks. "This team has really good young talent. Young talent that Im excited about developing," Drew said. "The big guys are going to be a big part of the future. Their development is going to be very important, but you cant teach height, you cant teach length." As strong as Milwaukees frontcourt is, its backcourt is just as unsettled. Monta Ellis and Brandon Jennings, who led the Bucks in scoring, are both question marks to return next season. Jennings is a restricted free agent while Ellis has until June 20 to exercise an $11 million player option. That kind of uncertainty doesnt faze Drew, however. "I wouldnt call it a challenge," he said. "I would just say theres some uncertainty and thats part of the NBA." Though Drew came to Milwaukee as a child to visit his uncle, its been a long time since hes spent any time in the city. On most of his recent trips, all hes seen is the airport, the hotel and the arena. But Hammond made it a point to show him around during the interview process, and Drew came away impressed. That just makes his new job even better. "Its absolutely beautiful here. Absolutely beautiful," Drew said. "Im really excited about being here and being the new coach of this team." 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The Supreme Courts surprising decision Monday to leave in place court rulings that found the NCAAs amateurism rules for college basketball and football players violated federal antitrust law raises questions about paying college athletes and the future of college sports.Q: In essence, the Supreme Court was not interested in answering the question of whether college athletes can be paid, so what happens now?A: The rule that now governs college sports is the one issued in a prior ruling in the OBannon vs. NCAA case. In that 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the court ruled that NCAA schools would be permitted to pay a student-athletes entire cost of attendance but would be prohibited from paying anything beyond that.In the lawsuit they filed six years ago against the NCAA, OBannon and his legal team sought a new rule that would permit schools to pay athletes for use of their names, images and likenesses. They succeeded in a 2014 trial in Oakland, California, persuading a federal judge to authorize payments of $5,000 per player per season. But the NCAA appealed and won a reversal of the $5,000 provision. In their appeal to the Supreme Court, OBannons lawyers hoped to reinstate the $5,000 payments or allow even greater payments. It did not happen, and the OBannon quest is over.Q: So -- who is the clear winner here?A:?There is no doubt that the OBannon outcome is a triumph for the NCAA and its top lawyer, Donald Remy. Facing the possibility of unlimited payments to athletes, the NCAA was on the precipice of a radical change when this saga began. It is certain that the NCAA and Remy would have agreed to paying the cost of attendance as a settlement of this case. Even as the case traveled through the court system, the leaders of the five power conferences were deciding voluntarily to pay the cost of attendance for players.That stated, the result of this case is not a total triumph for the NCAA. The legal precedent set in the OBannon appellate decision includes a ruling that the NCAA is a cartel that is subject to the nations antitrust laws, a ruling that opens the organization to attacks from other athletes.In his statement in response to the Supreme Courts ruling on Monday, Remy said the NCAA membership agreements are not violations of the antitrust law and that the organization would continue to advance that legal position in other litigation. The NCAA hoped in its appeal to the Supreme Court to obtain a decision that it was immune to antitrust scrutiny.Q: Is there any chance that athletes will be paid for playing in the multibillion-dollar business that is college sports?A:?Yes, there remains a chance. The next big case facing the NCAA is known as the Kessler Case. It is an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA filed by estimable sports lawyer Jeffrey Kessler.Now pending in federal court in Oakland, Kesssler and his clients seek an open market for college athletes in which schools would compete for them.dddddddddddd To succeed in this case, Kessler and his team must differentiate their case from OBannons and overcome the appellate court ruling in that OBannon case. OBannon sought compensation for use of players names, images and likenesses. Kessler seeks a much broader payment that covers practices, games and broadcasts.Kesslers task will be difficult. The majority judges in OBannon ruled that the difference between offering student athletes education-related compensation and offering them cash sums untethered to educational expenses is not minor; it is a quantum leap. Kessler must somehow succeed in making the quantum leap from cost of attendance to pay for play.Q: Is the Supreme Courts refusal to consider the OBannon case a surprise?A: Yes. The 2-1 decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals presented highly significant issues in American antitrust laws. The Supreme Court had previously transformed the televising of college sports in a decision in 1984. It was time to take another look, especially because college sports have become a major element of the nations economy and culture.The Supreme Court briefs filed by attorney Jonathan Massey on behalf of OBannon were masterly presentations of issues that could easily have captured the attention of the high court. And there was precedent for the court intervening in the sports industry: When the NFL and a paraphernalia manufacturer asked the high court to consider a dispute, the court accepted the case and wrote a historic decision in 2010.To succeed in persuading the Supreme Court to consider their case, OBannon and the NCAA needed four votes from the eight justices now on the court. Were there any votes to accept the case? We will never know. The court denied the appeal without a word of comment.Q: This kind of complex and lengthy litigation must be expensive. Who is paying for it?A: The total bill, including the appeals to the Supreme Court, will approach $100 million, all of it paid by the NCAA -- at least as it stands now.?The OBannon trial in Oakland encompassed the testimony of 23 witnesses, had 287 exhibits, produced 3,395 pages of transcript and led to a written decision of 99 pages. Many of the witnesses were expensive experts. One of them, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, charged the NCAA a fee of $2,100 per hour.Because of the ruling that the NCAA is a cartel that is violating antitrust laws, the NCAA must cover all legal fees. The NCAA is appealing the fee ruling, though, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and Remy believes it will agree with us and potentially direct a substantial reduction or elimination of the fee request. ' ' '