The Milwaukee Bucks are reportedly hiring former Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins as the group’s new head coach, changing Doc Rivers, based on ESPN’s Shams Charania and Ramona Shelburne.
Jenkins returns to the Bucks, the place he labored as an assistant from 2018-2019. Jenkins reportedly met with the crew’s entrance workplace final week in Memphis and this week in Milwaukee earlier than getting the job, per a number of experiences.
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Rivers stepped down as the Bucks’ head coach final week after a disappointing 2025-26 season, saying this week that he “felt like it was time.”
Jenkins was fired by Memphis last year in a stunning move, with the crew dismissing him with 9 video games left within the common season. Jenkins led the Grizzlies to a 250-214 general file throughout his six seasons on the helm, and led them to the playoffs in 4 of these years — together with the yr that he was fired.
Jenkins will likely be becoming a member of a Bucks team with a lot of uncertainty heading into the offseason. Milwaukee ended the season 32-50, simply out of the playoffs and with a dismal vibe within the locker room. And with Rivers gone, star Giannis Antetokounmpo is perhaps subsequent, with the 31-year-old middle dropping hints about possible trade destinations after reportedly asking for a trade multiple times this season.
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With or with out Antetokounmpo, Jenkins can have a whole lot of roster rebuilding to do so as to make the Bucks a contender going ahead. Milwaukee has few huge producers on the roster proper now: With gamers like Ryan Rollins, Bobby Portis Jr. and Kyle Kuzma main the crew in factors, the Bucks ended the common season twenty ninth (out of 30 groups) in factors per recreation.