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Byline: Varun Shankar MILWAUKEE - For one quarter Saturday evening, Jordan Poole was on pace for a classic homecoming. The Milwaukee native, now a guard for the Washington Wizards, estimated [...]

LAS VEGAS - The hottest ticket in town this past weekend belonged to the rodeo, not the NBA. Across Sin City, cowboy hats easily outnumbered basketball jerseys, and leather boots [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver LAS VEGAS -- Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo read Trae Young's eyes, sensing that a lob was developing before the pass was even thrown. By the time [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver LAS VEGAS - Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo read Trae Young's eyes, sensing that a lob was developing before the pass was even thrown. By the time [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver VILLENEUVE-D'ASCQ, France -- For the biggest American basketball stars, the first week of the Paris Olympics was an extravagant feting. They made light work of their opening-round [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The NBA's playoff bracket and play-in tournament field finally took shape Sunday when all 20 postseason-bound teams completed the regular season. With the top-seeded Boston Celtics waiting [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver As the NBA proceeds through the final month of its regular season, the best teams in the Western Conference are separated by a sliver while a full-fledged [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James and Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo will serve as captains for next month's NBA All-Star Game, which will revert to the traditional [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James and Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo will serve as captains for next month's NBA All-Star Game, which will revert to the traditional [...]

Byline: Washington Post staff LAS VEGAS -- Tyrese Haliburton's circuitous journey to basketball stardom took him from Oshkosh, Wis., to Ames, Iowa, and then, once in the NBA, from Sacramento [...]

Byline: Washington Post staff LAS VEGAS - Tyrese Haliburton's circuitous journey to basketball stardom took him from Oshkosh, Wis., to Ames, Iowa, and then, once in the NBA, from Sacramento [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The NBA's inaugural in-season tournament will take center stage this week, when the league has cleared its schedule for four days to showcase the event's knockout round. [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The NBA's inaugural in-season tournament will take center stage this week, when the league has cleared its schedule for four days to showcase the event's knockout round. [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver LOS ANGELES -- LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jayson Tatum are among the stars whose teams remain alive in the NBA's inaugural in-season tournament. The [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver Mike Budenholzer coached the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA championship in 50 years, but he won't get the opportunity to keep chasing a second. The Bucks [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver Like many teams, the Milwaukee Bucks opened the playoffs by posting a sign that would count down from 16, the number of wins needed to claim a [...]

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Byline: Des Bieler The NBA playoffs quickly took a rough and, for the league, concerning turn Sunday when several high-profile players suffered injuries in their teams' opening games. Two of [...]

Byline: Des Bieler The NBA playoffs quickly took a rough and, for the league, concerning turn Sunday when several high-profile players suffered injuries in their teams' opening games. Two of [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace WASHINGTON - The Wizards did nearly everything right against the NBA-leading Bucks on Sunday night. But the difference between championship-caliber teams such as Milwaukee and the league's [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace MILWAUKEE - The resurgent Washington Wizards hit a 7-foot-tall, 243-pound bump in the road Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum in the shape, of course, of Giannis Antetokounmpo. [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace MILWAUKEE -- With his surging team moving closer to a spot in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament, Washington Wizards Coach Wes Unseld Jr. spoke over the past [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace MILWAUKEE - With his surging team moving closer to a spot in the Eastern Conference's play-in tournament, Washington Wizards Coach Wes Unseld Jr. spoke over the past [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The sea parted for Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum as he cut into the paint, only for his opening to disappear in a split second as Giannis [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver BOSTON - Giannis Antetokounmpo got a taste of his own medicine: The NBA's best player got sent home by a better, deeper and more balanced team. With [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver MILWAUKEE -- Jayson Tatum promised that his season was 'not over,' and then he made sure of it. The Boston Celtics entered Friday facing elimination and carrying [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver MILWAUKEE - Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo lay exhausted in the backcourt, their bodies entangled and their hands clasped together. The [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver MILWAUKEE -- The stage was set for Giannis Antetokounmpo to uncork one of his signature transition dunks, where his long strides eat up hardwood by the yard [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Bucks were running a promotion at Fiserv Forum on Thursday. For every three-pointer the home team made, a local law firm sponsored a [...]

Byline: Kareem Copeland MILWAUKEE - Kyle Kuzma warmed up on the Fiserv Forum floor about an hour before Tuesday night's game, wearing a black durag and knocking down jumper after [...]

Byline: Kareem Copeland MILWAUKEE - A tough road trip for the Washington Wizards just got tougher. All-star guard Bradley Beal will miss the final two games of the current three-game [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver LeBron James will visit Stephen Curry on opening night, the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks will renew their budding rivalry on Christmas, and all 30 NBA teams [...]

Byline: Ava Wallace WASHINGTON - The Milwaukee Bucks' desperate attempt to chuck up a three-pointer with 15 seconds remaining was all but lost in the din of a celebratory Capital [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver BOSTON -- Giannis Antetokounmpo got a taste of his own medicine: The NBA's best player got sent home by a better, deeper and more balanced team. With [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver MILWAUKEE -- Jayson Tatum promised that his season was 'not over,' and then he made sure of it. The Boston Celtics entered Friday facing elimination and carrying [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The 2021 NBA Finals ended with a historic bang thanks to Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo's 50-point, title-clinching performance against the Phoenix Suns. Looking back to that [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The natural rhythm of the NBA postseason has resumed. After the pandemic delayed the 2020 Finals until October and the 2021 Finals until July, the league is [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner MILWAUKEE - Before the season, Giannis Antetokounmpo declared his intentions. He wanted to stay and win it all in the only NBA city he's ever known. And [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner and Gene Wang PHOENIX - Just about everyone in Jrue Holiday's world wants him to be aggressive. His wife, his two brothers, his father, coaches - they [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver The Phoenix Suns' seven-point lead had evaporated in the fourth quarter, but control of the NBA Finals was still there for the taking. Game 4, with a [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer It felt like a night 47 years in the making. Milwaukee was finally hosting the NBA Finals again, and even though the Bucks had lost the first [...]

Byline: Candace Buckner MILWAUKEE - While Giannis Antetokounmpo had played up to his 'Greek Freak' nickname during the NBA Finals, healing from a hyperextended left knee at a freakish rate [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer His left knee attempted to limbo without his permission, yet here was Giannis Antetokounmpo performing at his Greek Freak-ian max only nine days removed from that violent [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver PHOENIX - Vince Budenholzer, a longtime high school coach in Arizona, had a simple solution for virtually anything that ailed a basketball team: 'You should press as [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver ATLANTA - Giannis Antetokounmpo spent most of the night pacing the sideline, his hands plunged deep into his cutoff sweatpants as he nervously watched a team that [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver ATLANTA - The Milwaukee Bucks spoke in hushed tones, their voices so soft that a small group of reporters, just 10 feet away, leaned forward in their [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver ATLANTA - The fourth quarter turned into a shootout, and for once Trae Young could only watch helplessly. Late-game moments have brought the best out of Young [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver MILWAUKEE - Clint Capela was in position and ready to elevate, but his midair pang of disbelief suggested that he hadn't considered the need to levitate too. [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver MILWAUKEE - Trae Young first created the space, and then he used it to maximum comedic effect. The Atlanta Hawks guard feinted left and then crossed over [...]

Byline: Ben Golliver NEW YORK - The premier series of these NBA playoffs ended exactly how it should: down to the final second, and then down to the final second [...]