SPORTS LINE
The Milwaukee Bucks.
After spending the 2025-26 season overseas, Bogoljub Markovic looks ready to join the Milwaukee Bucks without further delay. He clearly wasn’t ready for the NBA when the Bucks drafted him. After averaging eight points, 2.2 rebounds, and 1.4 assists in five Summer League appearances, Markovic elected to remain overseas during the 2025–26 season. Not only had the Bucks filled out their roster, but Markovic looked physically and tactically outmatched during his brief minutes in Vegas. 2025 Milwaukee Bucks second-rounder Bogoljub Markovic won Serbia’s ABA League MVP, the ABA announced Friday. Markovic, who averaged 18.2 points, a league-leading 9.1 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game, won 50.4% of the votes.
Markovic also won the Top Prospect Award for the second year in a row and was named to the “Ideal Starting Five,” Serbia’s form of an All-NBA award. He has bulked up, grown his game, and just took home the ABA MVP for Megabasket. Over the past year, however, Markovic has matured in a big way. While still quite stringy, his frame is noticeably more solid. Listed at 6-foot-11, 210 pounds, Markovic is best suited to play Giannis’ position. That doesn’t mean they can’t share the court. Markovic is enough of a floor spacer and playmaker to fit the mold of a lanky small forward. His length should allow him to contest shots on the perimeter. It should also help him recover when ball handlers get by him, as Markovic can use his length to disrupt the shot from behind. Spending the 47th pick on the undeveloped Serbian forward in the 2025 draft finally looks like a smart investment.
The Green Bay Packers.
The Green Bay Packers’ 2026 schedule has officially been released, with the help of a claymation-style video put out by the Packers social team. The Packers should be used to opening the season on the road, and they will do so for the seventh time in coach Matt LaFleur’s eight seasons. They open on the road against the division rival Vikings, but none of their first four opponents (Vikings, Jets, Falcons, Buccaneers) have an over/under for wins of higher than 8.5, and the average is 7.5. But this will be only the second time in 10 seasons and the fourth time in franchise history that they will have opened with two in a row away from home. The payoff on the back end, however, is significant.
The Packers close with four of the last five at Lambeau Field, including a pair of games against warm-weather teams like the Dolphins in Week 15 and Texans in Week 17. The Packers have nine home games and eight road games in 2026, and with three of the four away trips coming in the first month, that means they will play eight of their final 13 contests at Lambeau Field. In the last five games of the season, four are at home, with the only road game a short trip to Chicago to play the Bears. It is a big deal to have the home-field advantage, especially at the end of the season when everyone is trying to make it to the playoffs.
The Milwaukee Brewers.
Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Brice Turang is the best in the league. The Brewers selected Turang in the first round, with the 21st overall selection, of the 2018 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2023 and won a Gold Glove Award and a Platinum Glove Award in 2024. He plays baseball without flipping his bat after homers or pounding his chest after making brilliant plays or making a scene. He plays because he loves the game. Not a show. He’s simply a grinder who may be the best all-around second baseman in the game.
Without question, the Brewers would not be where they are currently without Brice Turang’s offense. While the big bats in the lineup were gone, he stepped up in a major way. So far, he’s hitting for a high batting average (.297), getting on base (.418), and slugging the ball (.503). He’s almost walked more times (31) than he has struck out (36), all while swiping a team-best eight bases as well. He had the first walk-off homer of his career with two outs in the ninth inning on Mother’s Day against the New York Yankees for a 4-3 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 40,175 at American Family Field. The place went bonkers when his 411-foot shot cleared the center-field fence, with his teammates screaming and jumping over the dugout railing to greet him. He’s having the best offensive season by any second baseman this year.
