{"id":492581,"date":"2026-04-13T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492581"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:33:26","slug":"doc-rivers-leaves-the-milwaukee-bucks-after-three-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/doc-rivers-leaves-the-milwaukee-bucks-after-three-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Rivers leaves the Milwaukee Bucks after three seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1857\">The <strong data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1603\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1608\" data-end=\"1622\">Doc Rivers<\/strong> are parting ways after three seasons, according to ESPN. The franchise is now set to begin its third head coaching search in three years, while discussions are ongoing about a possible advisory role for Rivers within the organization.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1859\" data-end=\"2222\">The move comes after a disappointing season in which Milwaukee missed both the playoffs and the play-in tournament. Rivers posted a 97-103 overall record with the Bucks and had to deal with major injury issues involving his top stars, with <strong data-start=\"2099\" data-end=\"2124\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong> limited to 36 games in 2025-26 and <strong data-start=\"2160\" data-end=\"2178\">Damian Lillard<\/strong> also missing time in previous playoff runs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2224\" data-end=\"2531\">Since winning the 2021 NBA title under Mike Budenholzer, the Bucks have not won a playoff series since 2022. Rivers, a 2026 Hall of Fame inductee and the coach of the 2008 champion Boston Celtics, now closes a difficult chapter in Milwaukee, one also marked by a season-long disconnect with the locker room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major change in Milwaukee as Doc Rivers\u2019 run on the bench ends after three years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371677,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Milwaukee-Bucks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492581","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=492581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492581"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492581"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492581"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}