The Milwaukee Bucks are finalizing a deal with Taylor Jenkins to fill their head-coaching position that became vacant after Doc Rivers’ departure, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. ESPN first reported that the Bucks were finalizing a deal with Jenkins. Jenkins coached the Memphis Grizzlies from 2019-25 and posted a 250-214 record that included three straight playoff appearances from 2021-23.
Taylor Jenkins is nearing agreement to become the next head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. Jenkins was an assistant coach with the Bucks during the 2018-19 season under Mike Budenholzer before becoming head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies. Jenkins, who will replace Doc Rivers, spent the 2025-26 season outside of basketball following his dismissal as head coach of the Grizzlies at the end of the 2024-25 season. The Bucks met with Jenkins in Memphis last week and appeared to be their top target. ...
The Bucks didn’t just land Taylor Jenkins as their next head coach. They went out and got him. According to Eric Nehm and Sam Amick of The Athletic, Milwaukee made a “full-court press” to secure Jenkins before the rest of the league’s coaching carousel really got going. That meant action, not patience. League sources told […] The post Bucks put on ‘full court press’ to hire Taylor Jenkins before market heated up appeared first on Hoops Wire.
The Bucks are finalizing a contract agreement with Taylor Jenkins and will hire him as their new head coach, sources tell ESPN’s Shams Charania and Ramona Shelburne (Twitter link). Milwaukee had been in the market for a new coach after the franchise parted ways with Doc Rivers at the end of the regular season in […]
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