It’s so secret that Giannis Antetokounmpo has a number 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 determination.
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 educate LA.
Giannis apparently had a hand in bringing Ham again to Milwaukee, the place Ham has greater aspirations than high assistant, in response to reporter Gery Woelfel.
“I not too long ago chatted with just a few NBA sources since ex-Lakers HC Darvin Ham joined the Bucks workers,” 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 provides from seversl (sic) different groups, took the Bucks job with the idea he’ll ultimately succeed Doc Rivers because the Bucks HC.”
Ham labored carefully with Giannis and established an excellent relationship with the two-time league MVP throughout the franchise’s championship run in 2021.
As soon as Ham left the Bucks, the group has skilled little playoff success.
Within the 2023 postseason, the Bucks had been eradicated by the Warmth within the opening spherical of the playoffs, despite the fact that Milwaukee completed the common season with the league’s finest document by far.
Then within the postseason that simply completed, Giannis and Damian Lillard suffered accidents and the group weren’t capable of make it previous the primary spherical towards the Pacers.
For the reason that Bucks employed Doc Rivers to switch Adrian Griffin after solely simply 43 video games, Rivers went 17-19.
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