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The Milwaukee Bucks.
Team co-owner, Jimmy Haslam, says he would like to have Giannis Antetokounmpo’s future sorted out before next month’s NBA draft. Antetokounmpo has spent his entire 13-year career with the Bucks, but it’s possible he could leave Milwaukee after a frustrating, injury-marred season. Antetokounmpo has said repeatedly that he likes playing in Milwaukee. The Bucks can offer Antetokounmpo a four-year, $275 million contract extension in October. If Antetokounmpo doesn’t sign, he could become a free agent after next season.
Horst noted the Bucks have sought input from Antetokounmpo and other players during previous coaching searches, but they didn’t this time. The newly hired head coach, Jenkins, said he has communicated with Antetokounmpo since he took the job. The 41-year-old Jenkins coached the Grizzlies from 2019 to 2025 and went 250-214, leading them to three straight playoff appearances from 2021 to 2023. Jenkins’ success with Memphis made him an attractive head coaching candidate, and he quickly focused on a possible return to Milwaukee rather than waiting to find out if any playoff teams made coaching changes. Jenkins will become the Bucks’ fourth coach in five seasons, not counting
Joe Prunty’s three-game interim stint in February 2024. The Bucks were one of the league’s most disappointing teams this season as injuries limited Antetokounmpo to a career-low 36 games. The Bucks appear to be putting the ball in Giannis’ court, at least publicly. If he wants to stay, the Bucks aren’t going to rush trading him away. As Haslam mentioned, he is one of the greatest players in franchise history, and the Bucks would be silly to trade him for several reasons. Very few legends stay with one team their entire career, and it says something if the Bucks were capable of doing that with Giannis. It would help create a culture that could last way beyond the time Giannis plays his final game with the Bucks.
The Milwaukee Brewers.
The team got two significant pieces back in the lineup this past week in Jackson Chourio and Andrew Vaughn and it sounds like another could be back very soon. On Friday, Brewers manager Pat Murphy shared that he expects Christian Yelich to be “ready soon”. Yelich hasn’t played in a game since April 12 after being placed on the Injured List due to an adductor strain. Beforehand, he was slashing .314/.375/.451 with one homer, 10 RBIs, two doubles, one triple, and 10 runs scored in 15 games played. He was carrying the Brewers’ offense before going down.
Brice Turang has carried the load since, and now Chourio and Vaughn have lightened the load. The New York Yankees did not stand a chance against the hardest-throwing starting pitcher of all time. Jacob Misiorowski took the bump for the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night, and he was clearly pretty amped up for his first start against the Bronx Bombers. In his first inning of work, “Mis” threw seven pitches at least 103 mph, and he’d throw three more of such speed throughout the night. He topped out at 103.6 mph, and he now owns the seven-fastest pitches of any starting pitcher in the Statcast era (since 2008), all of which were thrown against the Yanks. Three of his pitches from Friday are also the ninth, 11th, and 12th-hardest pitches by a starter over the last 19 seasons. The first inning was just a preview of what was to come, as Misiorowski struck out 11 over six scoreless innings of work.
