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Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis finished third in NBA Sixth Man of the Year voting
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Bobby Portis has met all the criteria to be the NBA sixth man of the year for 2023-24 – an award he covets – but he’s skeptical about his chances.
Lori Nickel
Only one member of the 2023-24 Milwaukee Bucks was a finalist for one of the NBA’s individual awards, and that was forward Bobby Portis.
The 29-year-old once again was in the running for Sixth Man of the Year, but for the second straight year he finished third in the voting. Minnesota big man Naz Reid won the honor with 352 points, including 45 first-place votes. Sacramento’s Malik Monk was the runner-up with 43 first-place votes and 342 points.
Portis received 5 first-place votes and had 81 total points. Nine other players received votes.
“It would mean the world to me to win it,” Portis said Tuesday morning. “I’ve been talking about this award since I was like 22, 23 years old. Sometimes in the league you gotta manifest things. You gotta obviously put the work in to receive it, but I feel like over the years – especially me being a Milwaukee Buck – I feel like I’ve stood on playing my role to the T, bringing energy and effort on a nightly basis and just letting the dominoes fall how they fall. But it would mean the world to win it.’
Last season Portis finished third behind former Boston guard Malcolm Brogdon and former New York guard Immanuel Quickly.
Portis finished ninth in the voting in 2020-21.
Portis has had his eye on the award for several seasons and was once again Mr. Reliable off the bench for head coaches Adrian Griffin and Doc Rivers. Portis played in all 82 games for the first time in his career and made just four starts. He shot 50.8% from the floor and 40.7% from behind the three-point line – his best marks since the 2020-21 championship season.
He made 79% of his free throws, his best since 2018-19.
Portis also averaged 13.8 points and 7.4 rebounds per game and tied a career-high with 0.8 steals per game.
Once Rivers took over on Jan. 29, however, Portis’ season hit another level. The forward averaged 15.5 points, 8.3 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.0 steals while making 43.9% of his three-pointers over the final 36 games of the season. He also recorded 10 of his 17 double-doubles in that stretch.
In terms of strictly off-the-bench raw stats, Portis finished second in scoring behind Monk with 1,052 points and first in rebounds with 573. He finished second in rebounds per game (7.3), third in overall shooting (50.1%) and fourth in points per game (13.5).
“Individually wise, that award would mean a lot just because of the hard work I put in and just to be recognized for an individual award in the league is big,” Portis said.
Ricky Pierce remains the only Bucks player to win the award, capturing it for the 1986-87 and 1989-90 seasons.
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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What you can do:
Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department released information.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man, previously named one of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, has been sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his cousin in 2020.
In court
What we know:
A Milwaukee County jury found 39-year-old Brandon Gladney guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firm by a felon earlier this year.
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Judge Michelle Havas sentenced Gladney to 29 years in prison on Friday, April 17. He was granted credit for more than a year’s time served and further sentenced to 14 years of extended supervision.
Arrested in Arizona after years on the run, court records show Gladney has also been ordered to pay the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office more than $1,800 for extradition costs.
Homicide investigation
The backstory:
The shooting happened in May 2020. Investigators said Gladney was captured on video apparently arguing with the victim, his cousin, outside a Milwaukee convenience store near 21st and Meinecke.
“It’s all on video, and it’s devastating for that family,” the marshal on the case told FOX6 when Gladney was profiled on Wisconsin’s Most Wanted. “You have a family member that shot and killed another family member.”
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Prosecutors said Gladney walked away but then returned with a gun pointed directly at the victim and shot him. The victim died from his gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital. Multiple bullet casings were found at the scene.
Gladney went on the run for years. He was arrested in Arizona in January 2023, years after he was charged.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Circuit Court and prior coverage.
Brice Turang slides to home plate to score during a game between the Miami Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers on April 17. (Photo by Chris Arjoon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MIAMI – Garrett Mitchell went 2 for 4 with three RBIs including a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Friday night.
By the numbers:
Miami’s Calvin Faucher (1-2) entered a 4-all game in the 10th and walked Gary Sánchez with Brice Turang on second. Jake Bauers hit a single to load the bases.
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Luis Rengifo reached first on a throwing error by second baseman Xavier Edwards, allowing Turang to score. Mitchell followed with his double.
The Marlins scored one run in the bottom of the 10th when Jakob Marsee came home on Trevor Megill’s wild pitch. Megill settled in for his fourth save.
Coleman Crow, who made his debut on the mound for the Brewers, threw 77 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He threw four strikeouts, gave up two earned runs and a walk.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 4.07 ERA in two starts with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He missed part of the 2023 season and all of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning. With the bases loaded, Mitchell hit an RBI single, Bauers scored on a forceout at first and Rengifo scored on a throwing error by catcher Agustín Ramírez.
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Miami’s Otto Lopez hit a triple to center field in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Caissie. Lopez hit a two-run homer in the sixth to pull Miami within 4-3 and Ramírez doubled in the eighth to tie the game at four.
Abner Uribe (1-0) earned his first win of the season, coming on in the ninth inning.
Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley left the game in the seventh inning with right oblique discomfort after spinning out of the way of a pitch.
What’s next:
The Brewers and Marlins continue their 3-game series on Saturday, with Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 4.36 ERA) taking the mound for Milwaukee and Sandy Alcantara (2-1, 2.67) for Miami.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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