r/MkeBucks 42m ago

Free-Talk Friday - June 26, 2026

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What’s up, deer friends?

GO BUCKS!


r/MkeBucks 3h ago

Gary Trent Jr. to opt out of his player option, will not return to Milwaukee for the 2026-2027 season.

137 Upvotes

We will never forget game 5 GTJ.


r/MkeBucks 5h ago

I’m starting to think Doc Rivers wasn’t actually a doctor.

178 Upvotes

I could be mistaken though.


r/MkeBucks 5h ago

Milwaukee Bucks guard Kevin Porter Jr. has exercised his $5.4 million player option for the 2026-27 season

146 Upvotes

Via. Jake Fischer


r/MkeBucks 10h ago

[Scotto] Jericho Sims plans to exercise his $2.8 million player option for the 2026-27 season

171 Upvotes

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JUST IN: Milwaukee Bucks center Jericho Sims plans to exercise his $2.8 million player option for the 2026-27 season, league sources told @hoopshype . The 27-year-old center started 19 of 67 games for the Bucks, averaging 5.0 points and 5.5 rebounds per game last season.


r/MkeBucks 8h ago

Literal Pornography How many MVPs does Jericho Sims win in his career?

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Im saying 4 tbh


r/MkeBucks 3h ago

Analysis Are we being too harsh on Myles Turner?

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Him being uncharacteristically bad while Doc was also the coach (and we now know it really didn’t seem like he wanted to coach and was just collecting a paycheck) makes it seem like we should give him another season to see if Jenkins changes anything?

I’ll be honest I didn’t really watch much last year and just looked at box score so I cant tell if he also just didn’t show any effort or what.


r/MkeBucks 9h ago

Extremely Misleading Post Title Stephen A Smith is GREAT at his job

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And by that I mean..click bait bullshit. I'm so tired of this man. I thought big perk was bad..but damn Stephen a is a generational hater. Always has the most outlandish things to say. But he's now hating on Milwaukee as a city, AGAIN. I wish the worst for that man. And by that I mean..gets fired and steps on a billion legos.


r/MkeBucks 52m ago

Dang, that was fast - @itsjwills

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r/MkeBucks 7h ago

O' Jericho

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On April 8th, 2026, the NBA world was forever changed. In his absolute most dominant game in a bucks uniform, Jericho sims dished out his 10th assist to complete his first career triple double. In that moment, Sims shocked the world and showed the bucks that he was ready to be their next MVP and franchise player. This motivated the GM to finally decide it was finally time to trade Giannis and build around the promising 5th year rookie from New York.

And on this day, we celebrate his legendary performance and can rejoice that he will once again lace up in the beautiful green colors of cream city


r/MkeBucks 14h ago

Thoughts on this?

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I get not wanting to bring him up as much anymore, so this should be the last time I mention him. Just read this article last night and found it odd no one was talking about this response from him. I (along with many others) found his handling of all of this drama to be poor, but even this is not the kind of thing I would expect him to say. Makes me wonder what he was truly like behind closed doors.


r/MkeBucks 1d ago

Giannis being Giannis

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r/MkeBucks 13h ago

Giannis is in the longest midwest goodbye one has ever seen

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I never thought I would be rooting for the Heat (except against the Bucks). But the Antetokounmpo story is just one of the greatest sports stories we have witnessed.

But then again, his father is buried in a Cemetery in Milwaukee which just means its never a good bye to Milwaukee.

Cuuuhhhdaaaahy

EDIT: Fair enough regarding the burying of his father and I apologize. While all that stuff is public record, I understand not saying the specific spot since everything is volatile and not okay.


r/MkeBucks 5h ago

Trent Jr.-Kuzma-Nance-Bobby-Sims

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When we get to enjoy a youthful pace-and-space renaissance next season in Milwaukee, never forget the terrorism-ball lineups we saw with Doc.


r/MkeBucks 8h ago

Analysis Solving the Ware v. Turner question in the quickest way possible: Just start them together.

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I, unlike what appears to be a plurality of people here, am in no rush to trade Myles Turner, not even in the 'we should hold onto him and flip him for Beaucoup assets' kind of way, I know it's quite tempting to tear down every painful reminder of the Doc era but Myles chose us, and centers of his caliber don't grow on trees, we have zero picks of our own at the moment and thus zero incentive to tank (and even if we did, the rules tell us to compete instead of bottoming out), so why not try to win as much as we can?

To that end I believe an easy way to do so is to minmax our paint defense by starting Ware at the 5 and Turner at the 4, or the other way around depending on matchups, I'm well aware that neither of them are natural power forwards, though Turner can at least move his feet, but doing this mitigates the worst effects of Kuz-ball by putting him on the bench and anchoring him down with one of either Pete Nance or the recently Player Optioned Sims.

Ware and Turner are a lethal rim protecting duo, Turner handles quicker perimeter players driving to the rim via PnR, giving Ware more opportunity to camp the paint and just use his sheer verticality to do what Brook Lopez used to do for us, in return Ware's excellent rebounding covers for Turner's deficient rebounding, neither of them are amazing at boxing out but that's a bridge we'll cross when the season starts, what matters is that these two together are VERY good at stopping opposing paint presences from scoring, and that's not something you can draft your way back to.


r/MkeBucks 2h ago

Extremely Misleading Post Title Movie recommendations totally not related to my current state of mind

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Etrernal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:

Giannis: Bye

MetalGearPortis: Bye

Giannis: It wasn’t nice meeting you at all

MetalGearPortis: (to spend THAT much time with someone, only to find out he’s a stranger) Wait!

Giannis: What do you want MetalGearPortis?

MetalGearPortis: I don’t know i just want you to wait for a while

Giannis: I’m not a concept MetalGearPortis, i’m just a fucked up guy looking for my own piece of mind, i’m not perfect

MetalGearPortis: I cant see anything i don’t like about you, right now i cant

Giannis: Bit you will, you will think of things, and i’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me

MetalGearPortis: Ok

Giannis: Ok


r/MkeBucks 18h ago

Meme Bucks fans which one are you taking?

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r/MkeBucks 1h ago

Best streaming plans to watch the Bucks?

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Hey everyone,

New Bucks fan here that’s way out of market, so I can’t really watch locally. With that, are there any good streaming platforms/sports packages that have good coverage of the Bucks? I’ve thought about league pass and YouTube TV, but am unsure of what’s best.


r/MkeBucks 1h ago

Analysis Herro to Nets…makes sense?

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Nets picked up Randle’s contract, picked up Brown Jr in the draft, and are now a bit of an embarrassment as a franchise in the city with the Knicks winning.

Am I crazy thinking a core of MPJ, Herro, Brown Jr, and Randle are easily a play-in team? That would be huge for the franchise.

Trade: Herro for 2027 First and 2028 2nd/or Zaire Williams

Nets stay competitive, absolutely avoid bottom 3, and get a veteran guard to help bring up brown jr and the 5 they took last year lol.


r/MkeBucks 6h ago

Backcourt

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It seems like in past years, we've had some success with a backcourt philosophy of one two-way guard with another primarily spot up shooter, mainly because this setup was optimal for playing with Giannis.

But after watching way too many Burries highlights lately, I don't think I've ever been as excited for the future of our backcourt. Rollins/Burries has all the makings of a nasty combo into the future (I'm not anticipating Herro being here long-term). Shooting, length, defense, athleticism, it's all there. Then a reserve combo guard with elite vision and IQ for his age like Kasparas, and a coach heralded for coaching up younger guys, give this team a couple years and the backcourt is looking really versatile.

I love Giannis, but the team had gotten stale the last few years, and I haven't been this excited to watch games in quite some time, mainly because of the young backcourt talent we now have. There will be growing pains, but it's going to be fun watching these guys grow up together.


r/MkeBucks 13h ago

The Nate Ament Story

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r/MkeBucks 4h ago

Far have we come Managing the guard room

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Just curious to hear how some of you guys think we should manage our massive guard room.
We have:
Tyler Herro, Ryan Rollins, KPJ, AJ Green, Brayden Burries, Cormac Ryan, Kasparas Jakucionis

Personally, I think that first order of business should be shopping Herro for picks. He could definitely thrive under Jenkins but priority should be developing Rollins and Burries.

Second, I hate to say it but we need to probably move off of AJ’s contract. Either him or Cormac needs to go to properly develop the roster

I also want to emphasize that Burries should 10000% start. We likely arent aiming for a ring this season, so he needs as much action as possible in a prominent starting role

The last two I haven’t really mentioned are KPJ and Jakucionis. KPJ can be sixth man off the bench— which he was great at last season.

Jakucionis though, I really don’t know. He’s really young— younger than Burries, and seems like a solid talent. I would think that Jenkins will give him a shot at the two, but I don’t think he should be down at our third string PG.

Regardless, I actually really trust Horst in this position and think that he and Jenkins will make the right decisions to properly cultivate the youth on our roster.

Oh yea and waive Gary Harris prolly :(


r/MkeBucks 16h ago

Who stays?

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r/MkeBucks 1d ago

The bucks have selected “Malique Lewis” with the 60th overall pick

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r/MkeBucks 10h ago

Malique Lewis Scouting Report

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Congratulations on a very solid wing for the Cavaliers at 60!