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Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via You’ve got questions. We don’t have answers, but we know someone who does! As you’ve likely heard, the Bucks are poised to hire the franchise’s seventeenth head coach with Saturday’s report that they are negotiating with former Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin. Opting for a first-time head coach comes as somewhat of a shocker to many fans and analysts, figuring that Milwaukee would replace Mike Budenholzer with someone who had previous coaching experience. In that situation, we’d have a lot more concrete info to go from. The...

Pool Photo-USA TODAY Sports Milwaukee’s newest head coach was, until very recently, a complete unknown to Bucks faithful. The Milwaukee Bucks have got their guy in the lead chair, and it is not who most of us expected. Adrian Griffin, an NBA journeyman turned longtime assistant coach, was reported yesterday to have been tapped for the opening recently vacated by Mike Budenholzer, aka “the best head coach the Bucks had in decades.” What do we know about Adrian Griffin? Here’s a few items that came up over the weekend, and feel free to add anything else in the...

Here are three players the Milwaukee Bucks should look to target once draft night arrives. We just found out who the next coach for the Milwaukee Bucks will be, but the off-season still approaches. I thought I’d look toward how this team can get better for next season through the NBA Draft. While the Bucks currently do not hold a first-round pick, they still have the last pick in the draft at No. 58, since the Bulls’ and Heat’s second-round picks were taken away due to tampering. While general manager Jon Horst has floated the idea of potentially trading up into the...

Pool Photo-USA TODAY Sports Once a Milwaukee assistant, Coach Griffin is now running the show, per Woj. In the wake of the Milwaukee Bucks flubbing their way out of the NBA Playoffs, the franchise parted ways with head coach Mike Budenholzer and took on the task of finding his successor. After narrowing it down to three final candidates, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that Toronto assistant Adrian Griffin has been chosen to be the team’s new sideline leader. ESPN Sources: The Milwaukee Bucks are planning to hire Toronto Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin as the...

Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports The Bucks’ 2022–23 season ended much earlier than many basketball fans anticipated, and with that premature exodus came some uncomfortable questions. Obviously, the top priority is finding the replacement for recently-dismissed head coach Mike Budenholzer—and that search is narrowing as we speak. However, just below that, we get into the debate on Khris Middleton’s future with the squad. By most accounts, Middleton has been the most valuable non-Giannis player in the current era of Bucks basketball. In his 10 seasons with the squad,...

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports The gang hires a basketball coach Welcome back to yet another year of the Brew Hoop Round Table, where we ask that everybody use coasters and please don’t feed the aging pugs from the table, thanks. The search for the Bucks’ seventeenth head coach appears headed towards a conclusion, perhaps as soon as this week according to some sources. Before we find out a name, let’s see how the staff feels about the finalists, if they don’t expand beyond the three reported candidates. Firstly, rank your preferences among Kenny Atkinson, Adrian...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Kenny Atkinson, Adrian Griffin, and Nick Nurse are the names After we heard this weekend that the Bucks were moving forward with some of their many candidates for the job, a Woj-bomb dropped mere minutes ago with more concrete information about what that means: ESPN Sources: The Bucks are narrowing group of top candidates in franchise’s head coaching search: Nick Nurse, Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson and Toronto assistant Adrian Griffin. These coaches will be part of final conversations with Milwaukee leadership this week.—...

Scott Taetsch-USA TODAY Sports (as a criterion for success) The Milwaukee Bucks’ 2021 NBA Championship was the greatest sporting moment in my life. It was incredible and joyous to watch, especially after decades of futility and helmed by the most likable superstar in the sport. But sports are about more than just moments. For many of us, sports is an everyday experience. Moments of success, like championships, provide vital fuel to that experience, but they are also, and perhaps primarily, propelled by the hope of success. As fans, we follow out favorite teams because...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports The “Hiring a coach based on Giannis’s vacation schedule” Edition Another week gone, another week without a firm decision on a new head coach just yet. While GM Jon Horst has phoned up what feels like a couple hundred candidates to replace Mike Budenholzer, no clear frontrunner has emerged. And that’s just fine since it appears neither Phoenix nor Philly are in a massive rush to lock down any prime candidate that could reside on all three teams’ wanted list. Plus, the longer the process takes, the longer the vacation Giannis...

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports The first round of interviews may be over Earlier today, Yahoo’s Jake Fischer dropped a quick update for us on the status of Milwaukee’s quest for a new head coach: Coming to you on this Sunday to share two things, while I head to a wedding. First, it sounds like Milwaukee is narrowing its coaching search to a second group over this weekend. Second, for anyone who hasn’t watched Jury Duty on Amazon Prime… what a total gem.— Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) May 21, 2023 This is the first I’ve heard of a show called Jury...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports The Bucks are in the midst of a coaching search; what would make the biggest difference? The Conference Finals are moving along and, along with 25 other teams, the Milwaukee Bucks are stuck watching at home. They already made one of the toughest decisions facing them this offseason by ending the tenure of head coach Mike Budenholzer, and hiring his replacement is the next decision on the docket. There has already been a veritable legion of candidates who have come through Milwaukee in the past couple of weeks, and inevitably among them is...

Photo by Chris Schwegler/NBAE via Let him spot up and let it fly Contending teams in the NBA are anchored by stars, but are always searching for improvements on the margins. With the implications of the new CBA, that especially applies to highly-constrained teams like the Milwaukee Bucks moving forward. One veteran worth considering to shore up those margins: Rodney McGruder. While McGruder might be best known for being on the wrong end of Klay Thompson’s commentary, he has quietly played some of the best basketball of his career throughout the previous three seasons...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Who is ready for the starters to play 45 minutes per game!? After many, many, many reported interviews, we finally have a report the Milwaukee Bucks are sniffing around Nick Nurse. Nick Nurse is expected to begin his formal process with meetings with the Bucks, Suns and Sixers.@ShamsCharania has the latest on the NBA coaching carousel.https://t.co/ep5qcRy2fk pic.twitter.com/Yn0r9hFeKc— The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) May 19, 2023 Who knows what a “formal meeting” entails, but at least there is finally a reputable connection...

Could trading Jrue Holiday for DeMar DeRozan push the Milwaukee Bucks closer to another NBA title? | Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Two sides of the 2009 NBA Draft coin Ahead of the 2020–2021 NBA season, there were two specific moves I wanted to see Jon Horst make for the Milwaukee Bucks: Acquire Jrue Holiday from the New Orleans Pelicans Trade for the Houston Rockets’ P.J. Tucker Both moves happened eventually, and both paid dividends as the Bucks brought home their second championship in franchise history. (I would have also accepted the ill-fated Bogdan...

Photo by Logan Riely/NBAE via Another day, another candidate You didn’t think we’d make it another day without hearing about a new Bucks head coaching candidate, did you? Buried within Yahoo’s Jake Fischer’s piece today, he mentions that Milwaukee is slated to interview current Paris Basketball (yes, that’s the name of the team) head coach Will Weaver for their opening. The 39-year-old may scratch an itch for some of our foreign fans who like the idea of a Euro League coach being considered, but Weaver has plenty of NBA experience. After several years...