{"id":495078,"date":"2026-05-01T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495078"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:07:47","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-name-taylor-jenkins-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/milwaukee-bucks-name-taylor-jenkins-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks name Taylor Jenkins as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1310\">The <strong data-start=\"1170\" data-end=\"1189\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/strong> have named <strong data-start=\"1201\" data-end=\"1219\">Taylor Jenkins<\/strong> as their new head coach. The 41-year-old becomes the 19th head coach in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1312\" data-end=\"1501\">Jenkins spent six seasons leading the Memphis Grizzlies, posting a 250-214 record and reaching the playoffs four times. In 2021-22, he guided Memphis to 56 wins, tying the franchise record.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1690\">For Jenkins, this is a return to Milwaukee: he was an assistant under Mike Budenholzer during the Bucks\u2019 60-win 2018-19 season. He will be introduced on May 6 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Bucks have officially appointed Taylor Jenkins as head coach, focusing on experience, leadership and a winning culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":495077,"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":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/2026-Welcome-Coach_Taylor-Jenkins_press-release-thumbs_1920x1080.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495078","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=495078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495078"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495078"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495078"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}