{"id":436142,"date":"2025-04-02T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436142"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:36:49","slug":"mike-budenholzer-returns-to-milwaukee-it-was-five-great-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-budenholzer-returns-to-milwaukee-it-was-five-great-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Budenholzer returns to Milwaukee: \u201cIt was five great years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong data-start=\"1198\" data-end=\"1218\">Mike Budenholzer<\/strong> returned to <strong data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1244\">Milwaukee<\/strong> Tuesday night as head coach of the <strong data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1296\">Phoenix Suns<\/strong>, reflecting on his five-year tenure with the <strong data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1351\">Bucks<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m forever appreciative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bud led Milwaukee to the <strong data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1424\">2021 NBA title<\/strong>, posting a 271-120 regular season record.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"1467\" data-end=\"1492\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, joking postgame, said it was odd to see Bud complain about calls he once loved. Phoenix lost 133-123, dropping their fourth straight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Giannis catches up with Mike Budenholzer after tonight\u2019s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m01hftZIah\">pic.twitter.com\/m01hftZIah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Grodsky (@ScottGrodsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottGrodsky\/status\/1907253228078600478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reaction to Mike Budenholzer being announced as Suns head coach in his return game in Milwaukee. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Suns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Suns<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PJgq7yoH69\">pic.twitter.com\/PJgq7yoH69<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\/status\/1907215213453246647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome back, Coach Bud. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NTPfaHKzVO\">pic.twitter.com\/NTPfaHKzVO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1907215201579000038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now coaching the Suns, Mike Budenholzer faced his former team, the Bucks, for the first time since his firing in 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":436141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GnfNUDKWoAAN16t.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436142"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436142"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436142"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}