There was once a disagreement between current Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers and Kevin Garnett over returning to the Minnesota Timberwolves, but that has since been resolved.
Trade speculation surrounding the Milwaukee Bucks intensified this week after Bill Simmons revealed head coach Doc Rivers’ long-standing admiration for Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr.
Doc Rivers has coached in the NBA for a very long time, 27 seasons to be exact. Rivers is an NBA Champion, ranked as one the greatest 15 coaches of all time, and holds the 7th most wins of all time with 1173.
In NBA history, a player has scored 40 or more points on Christmas Day on 30 occasions. How many of those can you name in five minutes?
Any remaining speculation linking James Harden to the Milwaukee Bucks appears to be over, according to Bill Simmons and reported by Zach Lowe. On the latest episode of “The Zach Lowe Show” Lowe noted that a Harden-to-Milwaukee trade is essentially off the table, citing Harden’s tense history with Bucks head coach Doc Rivers.
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.
The Milwaukee Bucks are sitting at a disappointing 11-18 this season, struggling through the 2025-26 NBA campaign. With Giannis Antetokounmpo’s future increasingly in question, the organization faces mounting criticism, and Doc Rivers’ inability to get the Bucks on track cannot be overlooked.
Any lingering speculation linking James Harden to the Milwaukee Bucks appears to have been shut down, according to a message relayed by Bill Simmons and shared publicly by Zach Lowe.
The Milwaukee Bucks fell to 11-18 on the season with their 103-100 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night. Of course, the Bucks were playing without Giannis Antetokounmpo, who has been and will continue to be sidelined with a calf injury.
The Milwaukee Bucks are in a precarious situation with Giannis Antetokounmpo sidelined with injury and the team struggling to get over the line. Milwaukee has lost four of its last five games with plenty of problems to address.
Turnovers, fouls, and poor rebounding have plagued the Milwaukee Bucks all season. On top of missing Giannis Antetokounmpo, they often don’t do the little things right to just give themselves a chance.
The Milwaukee Bucks are struggling. No way around that. 11-17, 11th place in the East, they are 2-4 since Giannis Antetokounmpo went out with a calf strain and they are lucky not to be 0-6.
Kevin Porter Jr. was not at his best Thursday night against the Raptors. While he did give the Bucks 22 points, he went an inefficient 7-18 from the field.
The Milwaukee Bucks faced another game without Giannis Antetokounmpo, and the absence of their two-time MVP made every possession critical. Missing Giannis for the fifth straight outing as he recovers from a right calf strain, the Bucks knew that late-game execution would be key.
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.
Doc Rivers was not happy after the Milwaukee Bucks fell to the Brooklyn Nets 127-82 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday. It was just the 7th win of the year for the Nets.
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.
Just when it looked like the Milwaukee Bucks got their mojo back with a 116-101 win at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee over the Boston Celtics last Thursday, the Giannis Antetokounmpo-Bucks suffered an embarrassing blowout defeat at the hands of one of the worst teams in the NBA in the 2025-26 season.
It was a hard night for the Boston Celtics going up against the Milwaukee Bucks. Altogether, the Bucks were decent from the field, shooting 58.2%, which led to a 116-101 victory.
The Milwaukee Bucks’ current situation feels less like a contending team and more like a reality show, The Real Housewives. Giannis Antetokounmpo appeared disengaged.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was diagnosed with a right calf strain.
Giannis Antetokounmpo just shook the NBA world to its core. Or did he?
The Bucks exhaled a little after Tuesday’s win over the East-leading Pistons, with head coach Doc Rivers saying the team does not believe Giannis Antetokounmpo suffered an Achilles injury.
Antetokounmpo left the game after just three minutes with what appeared to be a non-contact injury.
Coach Doc Rivers isn’t buying the noise. A little more than an hour before the Bucks hosted the East-leading Pistons on Wednesday, Milwaukee’s head coach told reporters that Giannis Antetokounmpo has never asked out and that there have been no conversations with the front office about a possible trade.
Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers is clearly exhausted of the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors.
Kevin Porter Jr. is ramping up his right knee meniscus rehabilitation and is on pace to hit the Milwaukee Bucks‘ previously reported timeline of early December.
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers has, unfairly or not, caught a lot of flak in recent years.
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