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Milwaukee Bucks injury report: What is Giannis’ status? Middleton, Lopez ruled out
Doc Rivers, Lillard and Giannis speak on Bucks win over the Mavericks
Doc Rivers, Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo speak about the Bucks’ win over the Mavericks on Feb. 3, 2024.
SALT LAKE CITY – The Milwaukee Bucks (33-16) look to get a bit of revenge on the Utah Jazz (24-26) tonight at 7 p.m. at the Delta Center after the Jazz won in Fiserv Forum on Jan. 8.
Damian Lillard missed that game due to personal reasons for the Bucks.
The Bucks won their first game under Doc Rivers on Saturday in Dallas and clinched his spot as the Eastern Conference all-star coach. After going 14-5 from Dec. 21-Jan. 27, the Jazz have lost three in a row.
More: Doc Rivers holds his first Milwaukee Bucks practice in Dallas: ‘We changed a lot’
Is Giannis playing?
He is probable, with right knee patella tendinitis. It is a new injury designation for the MVP candidate.
Khris Middleton ruled out for Bucks
After playing a season-high 38 minutes, 29 seconds on Saturday against Dallas, the Bucks held out Khris Middleton for Sunday’s game in Salt Lake City for right knee injury management.
It is the eighth game the 32-year-old all-star will miss, seven of which were part of back-to-back sets. He played in consecutive games just once, logging 15 minutes in first half action against San Antonio on Jan. 4.
Middleton had not played 38 minutes in a regular season game since March 4, 2022 in Chicago (38:45).
Brook Lopez remains out for personal reasons
The Bucks center missed Saturday’s game in Dallas and was also out for the game against the Jazz for personal reasons.
Bucks injury report
- Khris Middleton, out (right knee injury management)
- Brook Lopez, out (personal reasons)
- Damian Lillard, questionable (left ankle sprain)
- Giannis Antetokounmpo, probable (right patella tendinitis)
- Andre Jackson Jr., probable (right wrist sprain)
Bucks probable starting lineup
- Guards: Malik Beasley, Andre Jackson Jr.
- Forwards: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jae Crowder
- Center: Robin Lopez
Bucks hire assistant coach Pete Dominguez
Doc Rivers has added to his coaching staff since taking over the job on Jan. 26. Dave Joerger and Rex Kalamian were at Rivers’ introductory press conference on Jan. 27, and Pete Dominguez brought aboard shortly thereafter.
Dominguez worked with Rivers in Philadelphia and with the Los Angeles Clippers and Rivers said he was instrumental building in the video room in both places. He also assisted Kalamian in coaching the Armenian national team and coached Obras Sanitarias in Argentina.
Along with video duties, Rivers said Dominguez will assist in player development, on defense and “coaching the coaches.”
“He’s a very important guy for me,” Rivers said.
Drone video shows dug‑up yard at former Michael Lock home
Drone video shows a dug‑up yard at a Milwaukee home once owned by Michael Lock, following a police search for possible homicide victims.
Milwaukee police on Monday, April 20, began digging up a home once owned by notorious Milwaukee drug dealer Michael Lock.
The dig marks another chapter in Lock’s long criminal history in Milwaukee, which has included convictions for homicide, drug dealing, kidnapping, torture and running a prostitution ring.
As of 6 p.m., April 20, police had partially dug up the concrete driveway and yard in Lock’s former home. Lock has been convicted of murders of other drug dealers whose bodies were found under concrete slabs at a different home he owned.
As the dig continues, here’s what to know about Lock:
Who is Michael Lock?
Lock was the head of a murderous criminal organization known as the “Body Snatchers” and one of the leading criminal operators in Milwaukee until his 2007 arrest.
Over the course of a decade, Lock’s organization sold large volumes of cocaine, tortured and killed other dealers, prostituted women across the Midwest and ran a mortgage fraud scheme.
A jury convicted Lock in July 2008 in the homicides of two drug dealers in 1999 and 2000, whose remains were found in 2005 under concrete slabs in the backyard of a home once owned by Lock at 4900 W. Fiebrantz Ave. He has also been found guilty of running a prostitution ring, various kidnapping and drug dealing charges and mortgage fraud.
Where is Michael Lock now?
Lock is is serving multiple terms of life in prison at Waupun Correctional Institution without the chance of parole.
Where are Milwaukee police digging on April 20?
Milwaukee police confirmed they are executing a search warrant at the home on 4343 N. 15th St. in Milwaukee’s north side. City tax records show the property is owned by Shalanda Roberts, formerly Shalanda Lock, Michael Lock’s former wife.
Why are police digging up the yard of Lock’s former home?
There has long been suspicion on the part of law enforcement that there are additional bodies buried under the yard. In 2011, police dug another Milwaukee yard looking for remains.
In that warrant 15 years ago, investigators said at least four victims are buried somewhere in Milwaukee. Before that, police had dug a half-dozen other yards. Police have found no remains in the other digs.
Who lives at the property now?
It is unclear if anyone currently lives at the North 15th Street property. Shalanda Roberts told the Journal Sentinel she owns the property where police are digging, but it is a rental and she lives out of state now.
She said she has no information on the dig and has not spoken to her former husband in years.
Read the Journal Sentinel’s past coverage on Michael Lock
The Journal Sentinel documented the case against Lock in a five-part investigative series, “The Preacher’s Mob,” published in 2009.
You can read the series below:
Marvin Bynum, adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, was named to BizTimes Milwaukee’s list of Notable Leaders in Law.
Bynum, shareholder and real estate attorney with Milwaukee-based Godfrey & Kahn, teaches a course on real estate transactions at Marquette. He has experience with a range of property types, from sports facilities to manufacturing plants and office spaces, and works to help clients navigate transactions including development, financing, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions and low-income housing tax credit-financed projects.
Notable Leaders in Law is part of BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable series, which recognizes leaders in the southeastern Wisconsin business community.
Six alumni were also named to the list:
- Jim Brzezinski, managing partner and CEO of Tabak Law
- Adam R. Finkel, partner at Husch Blackwell
- Jeremy Guth, shareholder and attorney at O’Leary-Guth Law Office S.C.
- Keith Kopplin, shareholder at the Milwaukee office of Ogletree Deakins
- Isioma Nwabuzor, associate general counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Modine Manufacturing Co.
- Joe Pickart, partner at Husch Blackwell
Milwaukee Wave coach Marcio Leite 2025-26 team’s evolution in MASL
See first-year Milwaukee Wave head coach Marcio Leite discuss the roles of younger players and veterans as the 2025-26 MASL season begins.
The Milwaukee Wave had been in the awkward position of trying to sell tickets to the MASL championship series without knowing when it would actually host a game.
The questions were answered late April 19, when the San Diego Sockers beat the St. Louis Ambush in the other semifinal in overtime. Their series didn’t even start until four days after the Wave eliminated the Baltimore Blast with victories in a regulation Game 2 and knockout Game 3 at the UWM Panther Arena.
Now the finals are set for two of the most decorated teams in arena soccer.
The Wave will host Game 1 at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 and then the series will finish at the Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California, with Game 2 at 9:30 p.m. April 24 and a potential Game 3 at 9 p.m. April 27.
Three versions of the Sockers have totaled 16 championships in various indoor league with the latest iteration founded in 2009 owning six of those. The Wave has seven.
First-year Wave head coach Marcio Leite has won titles with both franchises.
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