Look, I'm not completely up to speed on the efforts to build an arena in Milwaukee (although I've got a sinking feeling I'll be setting up a "Milwaukee Arena" news alert and probably a "Pacers attendance" one as well on May 15), but if this is an indication of what's being considered at this stage... yikes.

The report from WTMJ looks at the possibility of using London's Olympic Basketball Arena, a temporary structure currently being dismantled in East London, as a new home for the Bucks.

The story reads:

"The arena would be modified, and moved to Milwaukee.

That arena's for sale, right now, for a lot less than the half-billion dollar figure that's been discussed for a new gym for the Bucks.

"Half a billion sounds like a lot of money...we probably built (the recently-renovated 90,000-seat) Wembley Stadium for less than that," said Sam Wright, the assistant director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London.

"At the moment, you can buy the main structure, the envelope and seating for roughly about $7.5 million."

His firm designed the Olympic basketball arena (reported cost: $40 million) to be what he calls sustainable, able to be taken down and put up somewhere else.

"It's currently being dismantled in London at the moment," Wright told 620WTMJ's Jay Sorgi.

"A reusable building, you're putting it up, you're taking it down, you're either putting it up in the same configuration, or perhaps you're looking at a different number of parameters."

The specific parameters for the Bucks might include adding:
- 8,000 more seats (it sat 12,000 for the Olympics)
- permanent locker rooms and storage space
- revenue generators like luxury boxes, restaurants and shopping
- the ability to withstand cold Wisconsin winters

Take it from a guy who's been in that arena - it's not suitable for the NBA. In fact, it wasn't even suitable for the Olympic semi-finals and finals, as those games took place in the O2 Arena (renamed as North Greenwich Arena for the duration of the Games).

To be fair, no one from the Bucks or any level of government is Wisconsin is quoted in the story, so it's probably not being seriously considered, but it's something to chew on.