There are about 40 million the reason why Doc Rivers will not take the autumn for the Bucks’ 3-8 begin to the NBA season.
Not that he is harmless of the truth that Milwaukee stumbled with the league’s twenty first protection and seventeenth offense, but it surely will not price him his job. The Bucks are going through the fallout from a sequence of entrance workplace selections — firing Mike Budenholzer, lacking out on hiring Adrian Griffin and having to usher in Rivers, altering the group’s identification by buying and selling Jrue Vacation for Damian Lillard — and it is extra probably that basic supervisor Jon Horst’s seat is hotter than Rivers’. Here is what Eric Nehm and Sam Amick of The Athletic wrote:
For these questioning if Rivers could possibly be on the new seat, let’s not overlook that the Bucks paid him roughly $40 million for a three-and-a-half-year deal lower than a yr in the past. Moreover, Horst is going through stress due to how latest seasons have gone, and league sources are skeptical that he would have the leeway to make one other teaching change so quickly.
The truth is that the Bucks are restricted by the truth that they’re previous the second luxurious tax apron, they will make some trades across the margins – they do not commerce Giannis Antetokounmpo or Damian Lillard – and they’ll play this season. Perhaps after this season issues will change.
Within the quick time period, Milwaukee ought to – and should – string collectively a number of victories. 9 of their subsequent 10 video games are in opposition to groups .500 or worse (Houston is the one exception) and so they have 5 of 6 at residence arising. That is the chance for the Bucks to succeed and switch the season round.
If they do not do it now, issues may escalate and worsen shortly.
