Skip to main content
🏀

Milwaukee Bucks

team
NBA
20 stories

Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo sends defiant message after injury-riddled season

ClutchPoints, Established source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
injury
game recap

Perhaps fittingly, the Milwaukee Bucks, in their final game of a dreadful season, were blown out by the Philadelphia 76ers, 126-106, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Sunday. The Bucks will miss the playoffs for the first time after nine years with a 32-50 record, their worst since going 15-67 in the 2013-2014 season. Obviously, a […] The post Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo sends defiant message after injury-riddled season appeared first on ClutchPoints.

discuss

76ers tune-up for NBA play-in tournament with 126-106 win over Bucks in Rivers' possible final game

Yahoo Sports NBA, High-authority source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
game recap
coaching
Updated 5 months ago

Tyrese Maxey scored 21 points and the Philadelphia 76ers tuned up for the play-in tournament with a 126-106 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night in what could be Hall of Fame coach Doc Rivers' final game. The 76ers did not immediately know at the final horn their Eastern Conference opponent. The Bucks played without All-Star and former MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, while the 76ers were without Joel Embiid after he was stricken last week with appendicitis.

discuss

Tre Scott, Nets Sign Contract

RealGM, Established source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
signing

The Brooklyn Nets have signed forward Trevon Scott to a contract. Scott, 6-foot-8 and 225 pounds, originally joined Brooklyn on a 10-day hardship contract April 2. Scott averaged 8.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.4 steals in 31.2 minutes across five appearances. The 26-year-old posted back-to-back career-high scoring efforts of 11 points against Indiana on April 9 and Milwaukee on April 10. He also set a personal best with four steals against the Bucks on April 7. Scott spent the b...

discuss

Giannis Antetokounmpo calls it 'disrespectful' that Bucks benched him in final weeks of season

Yahoo Sports NBA, High-authority source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
front office
analysis

Giannis Antetokounmpo said it was “disrespectful” for Milwaukee to bench him over the final weeks of the season while he said he was healthy enough to play, a stinging rebuke of the franchise as he enters a stay-or-leave offseason. Antetokounmpo, a two-time MVP who led Milwaukee to its first title in a half century in 2021, said after Sunday's season-ending loss to Philadelphia that he learned that he had no control over his playing status as the Bucks limped to the finish. Antetokounmpo was ...

discuss

Bucks coach Doc Rivers isn't quite ready to announce his retirement, says decision will come soon

Yahoo Sports NBA, High-authority source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
coaching

With the Bucks long out of the playoff race, Doc Rivers was prepared on the last day of the NBA season for one final game to coach. “I'm not going to announce anything,” Rivers said Sunday ahead of the Bucks game against the 76ers. Rivers, the NBA’s winningest active coach and someone ranking sixth on the league’s all-time victory list, again cited age and time with his grandchildren as the key reasons he would call it a career.

discuss

Bucks could move Doc Rivers to consulting role after season

HoopsWire, Established source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
coaching
front office

There may be changes coming with the Bucks. According to Marc Stein of The Stein Line, there is a growing belief around the league that Doc Rivers may not return to Milwaukee’s bench next season. Instead, Rivers could remain with the organization in a different capacity. “The rising expectation in league coaching circles that Doc […] The post Bucks could move Doc Rivers to consulting role after season appeared first on Hoops Wire.

discuss

Bucks' Doc Rivers sees writing on wall with Giannis Antetokounmpo

ClutchPoints, Established source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
rumor
injury
Updated 5 months ago

The Milwaukee Bucks have just one game to go in the 2025-26 season, which has seen Giannis Antetokounmpo miss a plethora of games as trade rumors swirl around the franchise. Recently, a further rift has been reported regarding Antetokounmpo’s apparent desire to get back on the floor to finish the season, which the Bucks have […] The post Bucks’ Doc Rivers sees writing on wall with Giannis Antetokounmpo appeared first on ClutchPoints.

discuss

Are 76ers' Tyrese Maxey, Paul George playing vs. Bucks with Joel Embiid out, playoff seeding on the line?

ClutchPoints, Established source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
injury
standings

It has come down to the final game of the regular season, and the Philadelphia 76ers still don’t know where they will finish in the Eastern Conference. There are still several scenarios where they can finish as the No. 6, No. 7, or No. 8 seed. For them, their best bet is to finish either […] The post Are 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey, Paul George playing vs. Bucks with Joel Embiid out, playoff seeding on the line? appeared first on ClutchPoints.

discuss

Wembanyama, Giannis Among Surge Of NBA Players Citing Chess As Favorite Mental Training Tool

RealGM, Established source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
analysis

Chess has quietly taken hold across NBA locker rooms, with some of the game's biggest stars crediting the centuries-old board game for sharpening their basketball instincts. The pattern recognition, anticipation, and strategic thinking developed playing chess translates directly to their on-court play. For Giannis Antetokounmpo, he learned chess at age ten at a church in Greece. When he stripped LeBron James from behind with ten seconds remaining to seal a Milwaukee Bucks win in January, he c...

discuss

Green makes 11 3-pointers to set Bucks' single-game record in 125-108 win over Nets

Yahoo Sports NBA, High-authority source5 months agoNBA logoNBA
game recap
highlights
Updated 5 months ago

AJ Green made 11 3-pointers to set the Milwaukee Bucks' single-game record and scored a career-high 35 points in a 125-108 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night. Green shot 11 of 16 from 3-point range to break the record of 10 3-pointers that Ray Allen and Damian Lillard had shared. Green's now has 227 3-pointers as he chases the franchise single-season record of 229, set by Allen in 2001-02.

discuss