Category: Milwaukee Bucks

Milwaukee Bucks introduce their 2024-25 coaching staff

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Courtesy of the Milwaukee Bucks  The Milwaukee Bucks have completed their assistant coaching staff for the 2024-25 season by hiring Darvin Ham and Greg Buckner and retaining Dave Joerger, Rex Kalamian, Joe Prunty, Vin Baker and Pete Dominguez as assistant coaches on head coach Doc Rivers’ staff. Jack Herum has been promoted to assistant coach/head of player development while Jason Love and Spencer Rivers have been appointed for assistant coach/player development roles. Ham returns to the Bucks after serving as an assistant coach with the organization from 2018-22 where he was…

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Addressing Adrian Griffin’s Bucks tenure amongst other short coaching stints

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Courtesy of fanrecap The Milwaukee Bucks made a surprising decision on Tuesday, firing their coach Adrian Griffin, despite the team’s strong performance with a 30-13 record and sitting in second place in the Eastern Conference. Reports suggest that the team is considering experienced coach Doc Rivers as a replacement for Griffin. Griffin’s departure comes only 43 games into his first season as the Bucks’ coach. He was hired in June 2023, making his head coaching tenure one of the shortest in NBA history. In fact, Griffin’s coaching stint with the…

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Ice-cold shooting sinks Bulls in 118-109 loss to Bucks

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courtesy of Sam Smith, Bulls.com There was no bucking the trend Monday for the Bulls, and not only with their 17th loss in their last 20 games against the Milwaukee Bucks, this time 118-109. Because just as concerning was the continued confused shooting of both Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan, the Bulls two primarily premier offensive player who are both near career lows in shooting. And it continued again in Milwaukee with LaVine’s 20 points coming on five of 19 attempts and DeRozan equally uncharacteristic with three of 14 for…

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Bucks break off Mike Budenholzer

Brandon King

The Milwaukee Bucks are now in the market for a new head basketball coach after showing Mike Budenholzer the door. Despite winning at least 51 games in four of his five seasons and compiling a 271-120 record, according to reporting from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the team fired him Thursday afternoon. Budenholzer coached the team to the NBA Championship in 2020, which bough him some time, as his seat was starting to heat up. The Bucks had the best record in the Eastern Conference at 58-24, however Milwaukee was soundly beaten…

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Milwaukee Bucks announce 2022 Preseason Schedule

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From the Milwaukee Bucks: The Milwaukee Bucks will play a five-game 2022 preseason schedule that tips off on Saturday, Oct. 1 when the Bucks host the Memphis Grizzlies at Fiserv Forum. Milwaukee’s preseason schedule also includes two games as part of the NBA Abu Dhabi Games 2022, one road matchup and an additional game at Fiserv Forum on Oct. 12. The previously announced NBA Abu Dhabi Games 2022 will feature two games between the Bucks and Atlanta Hawks on Thursday, Oct. 6 and Saturday, Oct. 8 at Etihad Arena in…

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May 15, 2022 NBA Playoff StatCap: No Finals rematch this year

Brandon King

Who Got It Done Player Spotlight- Grant Williams With all the attention on Celtics players such as Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Al Horford, it was Grant Williams who stole the show in Game 7. In the ultimate win-or- Cancun scenario, Williams had the best, and most meaningful game, of his young career. In addition to continuing to take on the challenge of defending, reigning Finals MVP, and all-world forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, Williams scored a career-high 27 points, which included knocking down 7 three-pointers, and was a +25, in the…

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May 11, 2022 NBA Playoff StatCap

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Who Got It Done Player Spotlight – Giannis Antetokounmpo Giannis Antetokounmpo showed up big for the Milwaukee Bucks putting up 40 points and 11 rebounds in a pivotal 110-107 Game 5 win over the Boston Celtics to go up 3-2 in their Eastern Conference Semifinals Playoff Series. This was his sixth postseason game of at least 40-points, 10 rebounds. Rk Player Tm   Opp   MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS +/- GmSc 1 Tyus Jones MEM…

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May 9, 2022 NBA Playoff StatCap: Horford helps C’s swipe Game 4

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Who Got It Done Player Spotlight – Al Horford It seemed that the Bucks were seizing control of Game 4 until Giannis Antetokounmpo dunked on Al Horford and stared him down. That woke the veteran big man up , and he scored 16 of his 30 points in the game’s final stanza, including going 6-6 from the floor in the period and a get-back slam on Giannis, as the Celtics to snatched Game 4 from the Milwaukee Bucks, 116-108. Horford also added 8 rebounds and 3 assists and was a…

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May 7, 2022 NBA Playoff StatCap

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Who Got It Done Player Spotlight After showing some signs in the second half of their Game 2 defeat, Giannis got loose in Game 3, scoring 42 points , snapping up 12 rebounds and giving out 8 helpers in the Bucks 103-101 win to take 2-1 lead in their Eastern Conference Semifinals series. Rk Player Tm   Opp   MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS +/- GmSc 1 Giannis Antetokounmpo MIL BOS W 38:54 16 30 .533…

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