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Milwaukee Record’s short and sweet guide to the Bucks regular season restart

July 30, 2020

NBA is back, baby! Even though there are far more important matters at hand, professional basketball—the first sport to postpone its season when the COVID-19 crisis hit the U.S. in mid-March—is coming back to f...

Marques Johnson’s TV and film credits, ranked

Tyler Maas

May 21, 2020

Marques Johnson can do it all. The UCLA standout and Bucks legend was part of a National Championship-winning team before going to the NBA, where he made five All-Star teams, inspired Michael Jordan, and ear...

Robin Lopez replaced every NBA mascot with Disney characters

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2020

We here at Milwaukee Record are really missing basketball right about now. More specifically, we're really missing the Milwaukee Bucks. Before the pandemic hit stateside, the Bucks had the NBA's best record, th...

Michael Jordan’s strange, strained, and significant connection to the Milwaukee Bucks

Vince Morales

April 27, 2020

The shadow of Chicago always looms over Milwaukee. Chicago is one of the largest cities in the United States and it boasts a strong cultural and culinary reputation that carries the city's name throughout the g...

Khris Middleton autographed a can of Hamm’s

Tyler Maas

February 26, 2020

It's a fun time to be following the Milwaukee Bucks. Last night, the team won its 50th game of the season—the most in the NBA by a pretty wide margin—and became the fastest team in league history to clinch a pl...

Dear Bucks: Please remake this 1993 “Dear Blue Edwards” commercial, but with Giannis

Matt Wild

February 26, 2020

It's been an incredible season so far for the Milwaukee Bucks, what with the earliest playoff clinch in NBA history and signed tallboys of Hamm's and all. Clearly, other than winning the championship in June, t...

Watch 64-year-old Bucks great Marques Johnson dunk over two tacos

Tyler Maas

February 17, 2020

Saturday night, Pat Connaughton managed an amazing athletic display during the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest. Even though the judges (especially Dwyane Wade) didn't show as much with their scoring, the Bucks guard pu...

Deerly Beloved: Selecting our all-time Milwaukee Bucks All-Star team

Nick Olig

February 13, 2020

The 69th NBA All-Star game will take place on Sunday, February 16, which raises a few questions. How many tears will be shed in the heart-wrenching tribute to Kobe Bryant? Will life imitate art in the form of M...

The short, unspectacular history of Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest

Tyler Maas

February 7, 2020

Earlier this week, Milwaukee Bucks shooting guard and local developer Pat Connaughton was invited to compete in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest during next weekend's All-Star Game festivities. The honor to participat...

Midseason Report: The Milwaukee Bucks are on pace for a historically good year

Dan Shafer

January 14, 2020

The NBA’s most unlikely powerhouse franchise is proving last year’s 60-win season was no fluke. With half of the regular season now complete, our Milwaukee Bucks are on pace to once again have the league’s best...

It’s been exactly a year since Giannis smoked James Harden in the head with a pass

Tyler Maas

January 9, 2020

The date was January 9, 2019. By all accounts, it was just like any other winter day. However, by the end of that early January night, fans of the NBA and/or people who enjoy generally funny occurrences would g...

Milwaukee Bucks come into 2019-20 season with Championship expectations

Dan Shafer

October 23, 2019

The Milwaukee Bucks begin the 2019-20 NBA season with something they haven’t had since the days of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Championship expectations. Following a magical 60-win season, two playoff series victor...

Happy Giannis Antetokounmpo Day, Milwaukee!

Matt Wild

July 14, 2019

Today, from 2-5 p.m. on the plaza outside Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee is invited to celebrate Giannis Antetokounmpo's first MVP award at the aptly named "Giannis MVP Celebration." Fans will be able to see kids from...

MVP!

Tyler Maas

June 24, 2019

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“Passionate bandwagon Bucks fan” Hannibal Buress pissed off Toronto fans by booing the Raptors at last night’s game

Tyler Maas

May 20, 2019

Though we have no solid data to back up this claim, it's safe to assume the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon has more people on it than ever before. As the long-struggling and oft-overlooked franchise continues its ma...

Show your non-trademarked love for Milwaukee (and the Bucks) with Milwaukee Knockoff

Matt Wild

May 16, 2019

Milwaukee. We all love Milwaukee. The Bucks! The Brewers! The 8,000 flags! The city is far from perfect, of course, but the fact remains that Milwaukee Pride™ has never been stronger. But what if you wan...

5 things to watch in the Bucks-Raptors Eastern Conference Finals

Dan Shafer

May 15, 2019

The Milwaukee Bucks are favorites to win the Eastern Conference Finals. In this storybook dream season few saw coming, we’ve now arrived at the penultimate round where the Bucks not only have a chance to advanc...

Remembering the 2001 Milwaukee Bucks and the controversial Eastern Conference Finals

Nik Kovac

May 15, 2019

Eighteen years. A child born in May 2001 is now eligible to vote. Or to serve in the military. Back in the spring and through the summer of 2001, such a commitment had meant, for about a generation, less ...

10 not-that-interesting facts about Giannis Antetokounmpo

Josh Hoppert

May 8, 2019

The following article originally appeared in the April edition of Colectivo Coffee‘s “Off The Record” print-only periodical/crossword puzzle. You can pick up “Off The Record” free of charge at all 13 Milwaukee-...

The Bucks lost and Brother Ron got his car towed

Justin Kern

April 28, 2019

"… Babylon is nothing else than an infinite game of chance." –Jorge Luis Borges The entire sports world stared at Milwaukee, for a while, through a camera's funnel cartography on Sunday afternoon. It felt ri...

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