Mike Budenholzer Is Out After Five Seasons Leading The Milwaukee Bucks

The Milwaukee Bucks are out there for a brand new head coach.

Lower than two weeks after their championship hopes have been derailed by a surprising first-round upset by the hands of the eighth-seeded Miami Warmth, the Bucks fired Budenholzer who’d led the group for the final 5 seasons.

“The choice to make this modification was very tough,” Bucks common supervisor Jon Horst mentioned in an announcement launched by the group. “Bud helped lead our group for 5 unimaginable seasons, to the Bucks’ first title in 50 years, and into an period of sustained success. We’re grateful for the tradition of profitable and management that Bud helped create in Milwaukee.

“This is a chance for us to refocus and reenergize our efforts as we proceed constructing towards our subsequent championship season.”

It’s the final sentence of that assertion which will finest clarify the choice.

No group within the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation gained extra video games during the last 5 seasons than Milwaukee did below Budenholzer’s watch. The Bucks compiled a 271-120 file throughout that stretch, gained 5 straight Central Division titles and completed with the league’s high total file 3 times.

However regardless of additionally profitable extra playoff video games (39) than every other group throughout that stretch, the Bucks have only one title to indicate for all their efforts.

Apart from that 2021 title, Milwaukee blew a 2-0 result in Toronto within the Japanese Convention Finals following Budenholzer’s first season and didn’t advance previous the second spherical in three of these 5 seasons (2020, ‘22, ‘23) together with this 12 months’s 4-1 upset by the Warmth.

Budenholzer’s Bucks tenure ends with him third on the franchise’s all-time record for victories trailing Don Nelson (540) and Larry Costello (410) however holds the franchise file with a profitable share of 69.3.

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