Coming off their worst loss of the season, the Milwaukee Bucks look to rebound without Giannis Antetokounmpo as they host the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night.
The Milwaukee Bucks are hoping to get back in the win column as they take on the Toronto Raptors at home. After losing the last game by 45 points to the Brooklyn Nets, the Bucks have to come back with vengeance.
Doc Rivers is not panicking. Not even after a loss like that. The Bucks coach made it clear Wednesday that Milwaukee is not about to overhaul everything following a 45-point blowout loss to Brooklyn, a defeat that matched the largest margin in Nets franchise history.
It seemed unlikely that Taurean Prince would return for the Milwaukee Bucks this season, and recent developments confirm those concerns. According to The Athletic’s Eric Nehm, the Bucks have filed for a Disabled Player Exception for Prince, signaling that he is unlikely to play again before June 15.
The Milwaukee Bucks’ season will largely be shaped by their play when Giannis Antetokounmpo is out. They have secured victories over strong teams like the Detroit Pistons but also endured lopsided defeats to lesser opponents, including the Brooklyn Nets.
Christmas and the NBA go hand-in-hand. The day serves for the top hoops league in the world, like Thanksgiving for the NFL. However, while the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys are perpetual Thanksgiving participants, the NBA has mixed up the matchups and the teams throughout the years.
With the trade window now open, multiple teams are expected to make moves to strengthen their rosters, including potential maneuvers involving trying to acquire Giannis Antetokounmpo.
As December moves along, NBA trade buzz continues to ramp up, with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Ja Morant dominating the conversation. Both stars have surfaced in trade rumors for years yet have stayed with their teams, but the approach of the February deadline has reignited the noise.
The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo continue to dominate NBA headlines as the season unfolds. Milwaukee’s struggles have fueled trade speculation around Antetokounmpo with the deadline approaching, especially after offseason reports suggested he had considered asking out.
The Bucks have applied for a disabled player exception following Taurean Prince’s neck surgery, according to Eric Nehm of The Athletic. Prince underwent surgery last month to address a herniated disk and is officially out indefinitely.
The Milwaukee Bucks season will be defined by how they perform with Giannis Antetokounmpo out with the calf strain. While they have pulled out wins against quality opponents like the Detroit Pistons, they have also been blown out by non-quality opponents like the Brooklyn Nets.
Has this season not felt like the entry into basketball Inferno for the Milwaukee Bucks? Doc Rivers as the ferryman into the abyss makes it even more poetic.
The Bucks have applied for a disabled player exception in the wake of a major injury to Taurean Prince, who underwent neck surgery last month to address a herniated disk, league sources tell Eric Nehm of The Athletic (via Twitter).
Echoing recent reporting from Marc Stein and Eric Nehm, Jake Fischer writes in his latest story for the Stein Line Substack that the Bucks are conveying to rival teams that they’d prefer to upgrade their roster around Giannis Antetokounmpo rather than move their superstar forward.
Antetokounmpo is facing an uncertain future with the Milwaukee Bucks, and there is one team that seems to have gained momentum as a potential suitor for the two-time NBA MVP.
Good vibes surrounded the Milwaukee Bucks following last Thursday’s impressive win over the Boston Celtics. Kevin Porter Jr. set the table with a triple-double, Kyle Kuzma and Bobby Portis played their best games of the season, and the hope that they could survive multiple weeks without Giannis Antetokounmpo felt realistic instead of foolish.
Bucks coach Doc Rivers did not shy away from the state of his team following Milwaukee’s 45-point loss to Brooklyn on Sunday. “That was disappointing, probably one of the more disappointing games I’ve ever been involved in with the way we performed and competed,” Rivers said, via Eric Nehm of The Athletic.
Dec.15 marks the start of the unofficial trade season in the NBA. That's the date when most of the players who signed a contract in the offseason became eligible to be traded.