Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers did not have a timetable on Wednesday for when guard Kevin Porter Jr., who is battling a strained oblique, will rejoin the lineup.
After escaping on Monday with a two-point win over the Hawks, the Milwaukee Bucks couldn’t build momentum and lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder. It’s the fourth straight loss for the Bucks against defending NBA champions.
The tension boiled over between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Oklahoma City Thunder at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday after Bobby Portis and Cason Wallace got into it in the third quarter.
The Milwaukee Bucks have been the subject of league-wide speculation all year, and as time goes on, things have gotten more tense. According to various reports, the relationship between the team and its superstar forward, Giannis Antetokounmpo, has grown fractured, despite repeated assurances that everything is fine.
It feels like the Milwaukee Bucks are walking a tightrope these days as they continue to struggle in their campaign, while also trying to navigate the situation involving Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Most NBA players, no matter how successful, are out of the league before the end of their 30s, or even their 20s. That leaves a lot of life left to live, and a good handful of players have made the most of their professional lives after leaving the court.
Maybe it's merely wishful thinking. Maybe it's the need for storylines to feed hours of speculative programming, in an NBA media world in which drama and transactions still supersede strategy, in spite of the efforts of Amazon and other fresh outlets.
The Milwaukee Bucks keep on finding themselves in the headlines for mostly one reason: Giannis Antetokounmpo’s situation with the team. Sure, the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player has already said he doesn’t want to get traded, but NBA executives are still seemingly monitoring the situation, as the 2026 trade deadline looms.
The Milwaukee Bucks are hoping to prove they can play with anyone as they host defending champion Oklahoma City, but their task in this nationally televised clash got significantly tougher.
In a rematch of last season’s NBA Cup final, the Milwaukee Bucks will host the Thunder shorthanded on Wednesday night, missing both their starting center and second point guard.
The Milwaukee Bucks are coming off of a 112-110 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday, but face a difficult challenge to remain in the win column on Wednesday night.
The Bucks escaped Atlanta with a 112-110 win on Monday afternoon despite squandering a 23-point lead. Once CJ McCollum missed a potential game-tying look, Milwaukee snapped a three-game losing streak just in time to get home to prepare for a date with the defending champs.
The Milwaukee Bucks will host the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, January 21, with tip-off scheduled for 9:30 p.m. ET at Fiserv Forum. The Bucks enter the game 18-24 and 11th in the Eastern Conference, while the Thunder hold a 36-8 record and sit atop the NBA and the Western Conference standings.
We are inching closer and closer to the NBA trade deadline, now just over two weeks away from February 5. The Bucks haven’t pulled the trigger on anything yet, but with all the rumors swirling, it’s definitely possible we see some action before then.
Giannis Antetokounmpo has shown how publicly committing to a franchise does not always quiet trade speculation, and Ja Morant now finds himself in a similar spotlight.
Khris Middleton may soon reenter the trade block soon, and the Milwaukee Bucks continue to loom as an obvious fit. The Athletic’s Josh Robbins reports that executives around the NBA expect Middleton to remain with the Washington Wizards through the trade deadline before likely reaching the buyout market.
All signs are pointing toward Cam Thomas and the Nets heading for an eventual split. According to Brian Lewis of the New York Post, most league observers expect Thomas to be moved either by the February 5 deadline or in the offseason, with the latter increasingly viewed as the more realistic outcome.
The NBA on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is more than just a marathon of televised games; it is a cultural institution. For Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers, the holiday has evolved from a nascent league experiment into a profound personal milestone that bridges his playing days, his coaching career, and now, his son’s budding media empire.