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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 [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY The Milwaukee Bucks are the hottest team in the NBA. With their NBA Cup championship - earned with a 97-81 victory Tuesday over the Oklahoma [...]

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: CATHAL KELLY; Staff Not so long ago, the Toronto Raptors' post-title Plan A was 'Giannis will save us.' Nigerian-born superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo was buddies with Raptors president Masai Ujiri. [...]

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: Keith Pompey Oct. 24The 76ers have a knack for playing poorly without Joel Embiid. Tyrese Maxey was asked about that following Wednesday's 124-109 season-opening loss to the Milwaukee Bucks [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Oct. 24The 76ers have a knack for playing poorly without Joel Embiid. Tyrese Maxey was asked about that following Wednesday's 124-109 season-opening loss to the Milwaukee Bucks [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS The Toronto Raptors will visit the Milwaukee Bucks on Nov. 12 in their opening game of the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup inseason tournament. The Raptors and [...]

Byline: Gabriela Carroll Aug. 12The Sixers will open the NBA season against their former coach Doc Rivers and the Milwaukee Bucks on Oct. 23 at the Wells Fargo Center, a [...]

Byline: Gina Mizell PHILADELPHIA Paul Reed launched the deep pass to Buddy Hield, who easily laid in the ball to put the 76ers up by 25 points. The Sixers did [...]

Byline: Gina Mizell Apr. 4Kelly Oubre Jr. said about two weeks ago that keeping track of the NBA standings makes him 'nauseous.' But following Tuesday's 76ers win over the Oklahoma [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Patrick Beverley is far from shocked that the 76ers traded him. The Milwaukee Bucks' new backup point guard believes the Sixers' front office doesn't want to win [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY Less than two months of the NBA's regular season remains. The season is two-thirds over. Each team has fewer than 30 games left. Every game [...]

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: 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 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 [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY The NBA playoffs opened Saturday and Sunday with competitive games, upsets, great - and surprising - individual and team performances, and worrisome injuries to key [...]

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: JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Everything the Toronto Raptors did Sunday was geared toward playoff preparation. Gary Trent Jr. scored 23 points as Toronto downed the Milwaukee [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Apr. 4Tobias Harris had a message for the 76ers heading into their final four games. 'Figure it out,' the Sixers forward said. 'We gotta figure it out.' [...]

Byline: Gina Mizell Apr. 4As the court at Fiserv Forum cleared out Sunday morning, Paul Reed shot free throws on the far end while James Harden went one-on-one against skill [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Mar. 31Happy Friday, peeps. The 76ers are six games away from completing another successful season. Wednesday's victory over the Dallas Mavericks enabled them to reach 50 wins [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Mar. 5INDIANAPOLIS It was two weeks ago when Joel Embiid revealed the 76ers' mindset inside the quiet of the home locker room after all of his teammates [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Mar. 5INDIANAPOLIS It was two weeks ago when Joel Embiid revealed the 76ers' mindset inside the quiet of the home locker room after all of his teammates [...]

Byline: Gina Mizell Mar. 5MILWAUKEE James Harden gathered the ball and pulled up from 30 feet away, sinking the shot that got the 76ers back within one. Then, it was [...]

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 [...]

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 33 points and 15 rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks extended their NBA winning streak to 15 games by beating the Brooklyn Nets 118-104. Jrue Holiday had 14 [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Jan. 22SACRAMENTO, Calif. The 76ers are putting folks on notice. They're looking more like legitimate contenders not just a squad anchored by perennial All-NBAers in Joel Embiid [...]

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's play-in tournament, Washington Wizards Coach Wes Unseld Jr. spoke over the past [...]

Byline: JIMMY GOLEN; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON -- Jayson Tatum scored 20 of his 41 points in the third quarter, and Jaylen Brown knocked down his shots - and knocked [...]

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 [...]

Giannis Antetok­ounmpo scored 30 points while Bobby Portis finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Milwaukee Bucks over the Golden State Warriors 128-111 in a match-up of [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey Dec. 3MEMPHIS, Tenn. What's good, peeps? Happy Friday. The 76ers have a tough matchup Friday at 8 p.m. against Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies at the [...]

Kevin Durant was in awesome form to score 36 points and help the Brooklyn Nets fend off the Indiana Pacers 116-109 – claiming a badly needed second win of the [...]

Byline: Gina Mizell PHILADELPHIA James Harden willed the Sixers back in the final quarter. P.J. Tucker broke the tie with less than a minute to play. But Harden could not [...]

Byline: Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY For the fourth consecutive season, the NBA will have a different champion. In a grueling seven-game series between Milwaukee and Boston, the Celtics emerged victorious. [...]

Byline: KYLE HIGHTOWER; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON -- Grant Williams scored a career-high 27 points and hit seven three-pointers, Jayson Tatum added 23 and the Boston Celtics set a Game [...]

Boston, with a surprise 27 points from Grant Williams, led by as many as 28. The Celtics will face the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals. BOSTON -- It [...]

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 [...]

Was it the 46 points? The crushing 3-pointers? The clutch free throws? Tatum, the Boston forward, was feeling it against the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday. There was a time when [...]

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: STEVE MEGARGEE; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Bucks want to build off the momentum from a thrilling comeback and the Golden State Warriors seek to put an [...]

Byline: KYLE HIGHTOWER; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Memphis's chances of staving off elimination are even tougher now. The Warriors put the Grizzlies on the brink of elimination after they rallied late [...]

Horford, Boston's 35-year-old center, delivered 30 points and one big dunk as the Celtics tied their series, 2-2. Early in the second half of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference [...]

Byline: Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka ripped officials after the Game 3 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the NBA Eastern Conference [...]

Byline: Keith Pompey May 9--Nikola Joki has won the NBA MVP award for the second straight season, according to an ESPN report. The Denver Nuggets star center becomes the second [...]

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 [...]