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The Milwaukee Bucks.
The team was recognized by the NBA last week as a ‘leader in inclusion,’ for having an elite game experience. Last week, at the league’s sales and marketing meetings, the Bucks received the 2025 NBA Inclusion Leadership Award and the 2025 Game Experience Satisfaction Award, the team announced in a press release. The Inclusion Leadership Award recognizes an organization’s commitment to inclusion as a key business strategy. The Bucks were selected for the honor based on their continued dedication to creating development opportunities and ongoing support for individuals of all backgrounds. The Bucks’ annual System Impacted Rotational Program, a first-of-its-kind program in the NBA, provides valuable work experience to 10-12 incarcerated individuals from the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center through the Huber Work Release program.
Individuals in the program receive hands-on training and practice working in guest experience, retail, housekeeping and conversion roles to support various events at Fiserv Forum. Since the program began in 2021, eight participants have received full-time positions with the Bucks upon completing the course. The Bucks created the Marquette Fellowship Program in 2022 to provide students from diverse backgrounds with learning experiences, including networking and leadership skills, and an introduction to careers in sports and entertainment. Since the program’s inception, all fellows have been extended summer internships with the Bucks’ The Bucks worked with Beyond Vision to create an innovative program for blind or visually impaired people to assist the team’s guest experience department. The people serve in a call center, located in Milwaukee, and provide game-day support for fans over the phone. The Bucks are leaders in the NBA on and off the field. They love their fans and show their support by giving back to the local communities. The
Brewers.
The Brewers are predicted to make noise in 2025 despite a quiet offseason. The Milwaukee Brewers haven’t had a massive, productive offseason, to say the least. Milwaukee mainly has lost people this offseason rather than adding externally. A handful of former Brewers will be playing elsewhere in 2025, including Devin Williams and Willy Adams. While this is the case, the Brewers still are loaded with a solid mixture of young players and established veterans. The Brewers traded Williams for Nestor Cortes and Caleb Durbin. Cortes at least should play a big role for the team in 2025. On top of that, the Brewers will have both Brandon Woodruff and Christian Yelich back this upcoming season. Although they are not external pickups, Woodruff missed the 2024 season and Yelich missed the majority of it. Adding both is like adding two All-Star-level talents without giving out a new deal.
The Brewers will have a new shortstop and a new closer but the same goal in 2025: make the postseason and see if they can get hot at the right time. That’s the philosophy that has carried Milwaukee through an unprecedented stretch of regular-season success, with six postseason appearances in the past seven years, including four division titles. The Brewers didn’t get a lot of love before the 2024 season and went out and won 93 games and the National League Central division title. Don’t be shocked if they do it again.
