It’s so secret that Giannis Antetokounmpo has lots of pull on the Bucks and it appears to be like as if he’s used his affect as soon as extra over a training resolution.
Fired Lakers coach Darvin Ham coached the Bucks from 2018-22 underneath Mike Budenholzer (who has since been fired) earlier than taking the job to teach LA.
Giannis apparently had a hand in bringing Ham again to Milwaukee, the place Ham has greater aspirations than prime assistant, in accordance with reporter Gery Woelfel.
“I not too long ago chatted with a number of NBA sources since ex-Lakers HC Darvin Ham joined the Bucks employees,” Woelfel stated. “They had been adamant in saying Giannis Antetokounmpo had main enter in Ham’s hiring (stunning, eh?)A few of those self same sources additionally contend Ham, who had gives from seversl (sic) different groups, took the Bucks job with the idea he’ll finally succeed Doc Rivers because the Bucks HC.”
Ham labored intently with Giannis and established a very good relationship with the two-time league MVP in the course of the franchise’s championship run in 2021.
As soon as Ham left the Bucks, the staff has skilled little playoff success.
Within the 2023 postseason, the Bucks had been eradicated by the Warmth within the opening spherical of the playoffs, regardless that Milwaukee completed the common season with the league’s finest file by far.
Then within the postseason that simply completed, Giannis and Damian Lillard suffered accidents and the staff weren’t in a position to make it previous the primary spherical in opposition to the Pacers.
Because the Bucks employed Doc Rivers to switch Adrian Griffin after solely simply 43 video games, Rivers went 17-19.
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