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The Milwaukee Bucks include a player in AJ Green who refuses any chance to dunk. Now they’ve got a player in Jericho Sims who refuses almost any shot but a dunk. The yin of Green’s ground-based 3-point game and yang of Sims’ paint-based attack nicely sums up the Bucks’ new ability to win with different […]

Earlier this season, Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers said that assists, not points, were the key stat to watch from his team, especially with superstars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard. Rivers returned to that theme in addressing the team’s disappointing weekend, featuring back-to-back home losses to the Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers. The Magic snapped […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo notched another legacy moment on Wednesday night with a lefty layup that put him at 20,000 points in his NBA career. Milwaukee Bucks fans serenaded him with chants of “M-V-P” as a tribute video showed footage tracing his incredible journey from the streets of Athens, Greece, to the NBA mountaintop. The moment filled his coach, Doc […]

Kevin Porter Jr. took only 26 minutes to reach a triple-double — 10 points, 11 rebounds, and 14 assists — in the Milwaukee Bucks’ 134-107 rout of the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. In doing so, the trade deadline addition from the Los Angeles Clippers managed to make a little history of his own on a […]

Andre Jackson Jr. has started a majority of games this year for the Milwaukee Bucks but has recently seen his minutes disappear, prompting questions and speculation about a possible injury. But that’s not the reason. “We brought in other guys that I think fill his role,” coach Doc Rivers said recently to reporters. “His numbers […]

Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers had very high praise for new big man Jericho Sims, acquired at the trade deadline from the New York Knicks. “Jericho is a super athlete, you know, reminds me of a DeAndre Jordan type of athlete,” Rivers said pre-All Star Break. “And so, you know, I’ve had a lot of […]

Damian Lillard wears the letter O on his Milwaukee Bucks jersey in part to pay homage to Oregon, where he played for the Portland Trail Blazers, and in part for Ogden, the Utah college town where he played for Weber State. But the original O, his hometown of Oakland, occupies a giant slice of the […]

With 12 seconds to go in the first quarter of the Milwaukee Bucks’ 135-127 win against the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday, Kyle Kuzma buried a deep fadeaway 3-pointer from the left wing. Then, with three ticks left, he caught everyone by surprise, firing a floor-length pass from under the Bucks’ basket to Gary Trent, Jr. […]

For two seasons, the injury status of Milwaukee Bucks’ franchise cornerstone Khris Middleton has been a daily question. Will he play? Will his minutes be restricted? Can he handle playing back-to-backs? It added up to a lot of uncertainty and limited production from a player who’s nearing the end of his career and earns a […]

Sunday’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies fit now-familiar patterns for the Milwaukee Bucks. They got bludgeoned in the paint and limped to the finish line in the fourth quarter. They’re big reasons for the current 1-4 slide, with one major cause being the absence of big man Bobby Portis. “That’s a big, big hole in […]

The Milwaukee Bucks began their game Thursday against the Miami Heat colder than the winter air outside Fiserv Forum. They missed 11 of their first 12 shots on the way to falling behind 20-5 to the shorthanded Heat. But there was a good reason for the icy start. The Bucks players had rushed off a […]

It’s not often that you hear “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in an NBA arena. But the Milwaukee Bucks brought the ballpark staple to Fiserv Forum Friday as part of an extended tribute to Bob Uecker, the Milwaukee Brewers’ iconic broadcaster who died Thursday. ”Root root root for the Brewers,” the crowd sang as […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard almost never struggle to score. But Milwaukee Bucks’ coach Doc Rivers looks at a different stat from the two superstars that often separates the team’s wins and losses. “When (Giannis) and Dame are high in assists, I mean 20 between them, we’re so much better when that happens,” Rivers said […]

After the Milwaukee Bucks’ 121-105 victory over the San Antonio Spurs, head coach Doc Rivers saved his gushiest praise for A.J. Green (aka “Dairy Bird”), the undrafted reserve out of Northern Iowa who, in his second NBA season, continues to endear himself to teammates and fans with his 3-point marksmanship and scrappy, disciplined work on […]

A new year and a newly reunited Big 3 added up not to an expected victory but to another lackluster performance for the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday at Fiserv Forum. Their home 113-110 loss to the Brooklyn Nets continued a gnarly hangover the team’s been nursing since they left Las Vegas riding high as NBA […]

Ann Bosman-Foltz faced a deadline that spawned a dream. The deadline: just before Christmas, when her grandmother would turn 104. The dream: find a way to involve her grandma’s favorite Milwaukee Buck in a birthday gift. “She told me that number 11, Brook Lopez, is her favorite player,” Bosman-Foltz said. “She likes that he just […]

The Milwaukee Bucks’ trip to Las Vegas couldn’t have gone much better, with an NBA Cup championship banner to hang, some extra holiday cash in players’ pockets, and plenty of team-building opportunities in Sin City. But the scheduling around the Cup had coach Doc Rivers feeling more Festivus than festive. “I can be honest, I […]

MILWAUKEE — Khris Middleton has built his legacy as a scorer who’s equally adept at bombing from long range or banking in turnaround daggers from midrange. In the Milwaukee Bucks’ thrilling 114-109 victory over the Orlando Magic on Tuesday to secure a 5-0 record in NBA Cup games and a weekend trip to Las Vegas, […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s November reign of terror has Milwaukee Bucks fans serenading him with “M-V-P” chants when he steps to the free-throw line and his coach praising his all-around dominance. “This is the best stretch by far with me, because it’s not just scoring, it’s everything,” Bucks coach Doc Rivers said after Saturday’s 124-114 win over […]

Last December, the Indiana Pacers took Giannis Antetokounmpo’s game ball and went home. Or so that’s what the Milwaukee Bucks star claimed. The Pacers’ alleged theft after the December game in Milwaukee made the Greek Freak so furious after his team’s record-setting 64-point performance that he chased them back to their locker room, setting off […]

Assessing his team’s defensive effort in the Milwaukee Bucks’ 122-106 win against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night, Doc Rivers singled one player out. No, not two-time Defensive Player of the Year Giannis Antetokounmpo. Or Brook Lopez, who’s second in the NBA in blocks per game. “I thought he did the best job of any […]