Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee.
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50 Facts About Milwaukee Bucks
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The Milwaukee Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division.
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Milwaukee Bucks have won two league championships, three conference titles, and 17 division titles .
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The Milwaukee Bucks are the only team to have won a championship in both the Eastern and Western conference.
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That year, the Milwaukee Bucks' record earned them a coin flip against their expansion cousins, the Phoenix Suns, to see who would get the first pick in the upcoming draft.
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The Milwaukee Bucks won the coin flip, but had to win a bidding war with the New York Nets of the upstart American Basketball Association to secure him.
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The Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in five games in the Eastern Conference semifinals, only to be dispatched in five by the Knicks in the Eastern finals.
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In 1972, Alcindor, who had already privately converted to Islam and changed his name, publicly announced his name change to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the Milwaukee Bucks reached the conference finals but lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in six games.
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The Milwaukee Bucks were back in the 1974 NBA Finals against the Celtics.
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However, the Milwaukee Bucks then lost in game seven, and did not return to the NBA Finals until 2021.
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Meanwhile, Benson never played as aggressively again and the Milwaukee Bucks traded him to the Detroit Pistons in 1980 for veteran center Bob Lanier to fill in the hole left by the departure of Abdul-Jabbar.
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However, the Milwaukee Bucks were unable to make it to the NBA Finals again, being eliminated by either the Celtics or the Sixers each time.
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Noteworthy for the 1980s Milwaukee Bucks is that in 1983 they became the first, and until 2003, only team in NBA history to sweep the Boston Celtics in a best-of-seven playoff series, being the first team to meet and defeat Michael Jordan in a playoff series, and hosting Julius Erving's final NBA game in the 1987 NBA playoffs, which would see the Milwaukee Bucks advancing with a game five first-round playoff victory.
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From 1991 through 1998, the Milwaukee Bucks suffered a franchise-record seven straight losing seasons.
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At the 1998 NBA Draft, the Milwaukee Bucks made a trade that would come back to haunt them for years.
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At the draft, the Milwaukee Bucks selected Dirk Nowitzki with the ninth overall pick, but traded him to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Robert Traylor.
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In 1997, the Milwaukee Bucks sent all-star forward Vin Baker in a three-team trade to the Seattle SuperSonics, and they would acquire Cleveland Cavaliers guard Terrell Brandon and forward Tyrone Hill.
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Under the leadership of Karl and general manager Ernie Grunfeld, and with the steady addition of talent such as Tim Thomas and Sam Cassell, the Milwaukee Bucks developed into an elite team in the Eastern Conference.
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The Milwaukee Bucks reached the 2001 Eastern Conference Finals by defeating the Charlotte Hornets.
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The Milwaukee Bucks made the playoffs, but lost in the first round to the New Jersey Nets in six games.
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Under the direction of new general manager Larry Harris, the Milwaukee Bucks struggled with inconsistency and injury for the next six years.
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The Milwaukee Bucks received the first pick in the 2005 NBA draft, and used it to select center Andrew Bogut.
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On June 26,2008, the Milwaukee Bucks acquired Richard Jefferson from the New Jersey Nets in a trade for 2007 first-round draft pick Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons.
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Later that day, the Milwaukee Bucks selected West Virginia's Joe Alexander with the eighth pick of the NBA draft.
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At the beginning of the season, the Milwaukee Bucks had low playoffs expectations; they had not been in four years.
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In October, the Bucks quickly fell behind the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Central Division, but Milwaukee ultimately clinched a playoff berth on April 6,2010, with a road win over the Chicago Bulls.
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The Milwaukee Bucks clinched the sixth seed and were eliminated in a seven-game series against the Atlanta Hawks.
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On March 13,2012,48 hours before the trade deadline, the Milwaukee Bucks traded Bogut and Jackson to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Monta Ellis, Ekpe Udoh, and Kwame Brown.
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On June 27,2013, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Greek forward Giannis Antetokounmpo with the 15th overall pick of the 2013 NBA draft.
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The Milwaukee Bucks agreed to sign-and-trade Brandon Jennings to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Brandon Knight, Khris Middleton, and Viacheslav Kravtsov.
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The Milwaukee Bucks later extended their contract with Larry Sanders with a four-year, $44 million contract and traded Ish Smith and Kravtsov to the Phoenix Suns for Caron Butler.
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On June 26,2014, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Duke forward Jabari Parker with the second overall pick of the 2014 NBA draft.
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On July 1,2014, the Milwaukee Bucks secured the coaching rights for Jason Kidd from the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for two second-round draft picks in the 2015 NBA draft, and the 2019 NBA draft.
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The Milwaukee Bucks made the 2015 NBA playoffs as the 6th seed in the Eastern Conference, where they faced the Chicago Bulls in the first round, losing in six games.
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On July 9,2015, the Milwaukee Bucks confirmed their signing of center Greg Monroe to a three-year, $50 million contract.
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The Milwaukee Bucks announced the club's re-signing of Khris Middleton to a five-year, $70 million contract.
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On May 17,2018, the Milwaukee Bucks announced former San Antonio Spurs' assistant coach and former Atlanta Hawks head coach Mike Budenholzer as their new head coach.
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Antetokounmpo received his second consecutive Most Valuable Player award after returning home from the NBA Bubble upon the Milwaukee Bucks losing in the semi-finals of the 2020 NBA playoffs to the Miami Heat.
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The Milwaukee Bucks held the ball for seven seconds in reference to Blake's seven gunshots.
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The Milwaukee Bucks strengthened their bench with free agent signings of Bobby Portis and Bryn Forbes.
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When it came time for the Milwaukee Bucks to choose a name for their new mascot, the name "Bango" won the contest.
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Milwaukee Bucks entered the NBA wearing hunter green and white uniforms with red trim.
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The script "Milwaukee Bucks" lettering was in white fading to silver and purple and numbers were in white with green and purple trim.
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The 'Milwaukee Bucks' lettering was tweaked to make all the letters the same height.
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The pattern consists of the team's new colors of green, cream, royal blue and black, which the Milwaukee Bucks described as an homage to the "Irish Rainbow" design of the 1980s.
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In 2017, as part of the NBA's new protocol for uniforms, with each team allotted 5 different uniform sets, the Milwaukee Bucks added to their regular home and road uniforms, as well as their alternate black uniforms.
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The uniform was a nod to Milwaukee Bucks's meaning as "the gathering place by the water" due to the city's location at the confluence of the Milwaukee Bucks, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers flowing into Lake Michigan.
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Milwaukee Bucks hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA.
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Milwaukee Bucks games produced by Bally Sports are carried on the Bally Sports app within the team's broadcast territory.
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