{"id":388437,"date":"2026-01-03T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388437\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:31:08","slug":"bucks-122-121-hornets-3-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388437\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks 122-121 Hornets (3 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE — \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> dunked on a lob<\/a> from Kevin Porter Jr<\/a>. with 4.7 seconds remaining to give the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> a 122-121 victory over the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo had 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists for his NBA-leading 158th game with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists. Antetokounmpo overtook Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who each accomplished that feat 157 times.<\/p>\n

The lead changed hands three times in the last 10 1\/2 seconds.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Kyle Kuzma<\/a> sank a 3-pointer to put the Bucks ahead 120-118 with 10.3 seconds left.<\/p>\n

After Charlotte called a timeout, Sion James<\/a> inbounded the ball to Miles Bridges<\/a>, who was heading toward the basket. Bridges laid the ball in while drawing Kuzma\u2019s sixth foul with 8.8 seconds left. Bridges then hit the ensuing free throw to complete a 3-point play that put Charlotte back ahead.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee called a timeout, then Porter threw an inbounds pass to Antetokounmpo. Antetokounmpo passed to Porter and then headed toward the basket and caught the lob to dunk home the winning basket.<\/p>\n

Charlotte still had one more timeout. LaMelo Ball<\/a> inbounded to Brandon Miller<\/a>, whose contested driving layup attempt bounced off the backboard and didn\u2019t go through as the buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n

Kon Knueppel<\/a> scored 26 points, Bridges 25, Miller 19 and Collin Sexton<\/a> 16 for Charlotte. Ryan Rollins<\/a> had 29 points and eight assists for Milwaukee, while Bobby Portis<\/a> scored 20 points.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s dramatic victory came two nights after the Bucks lost 114-113 to the Washington Wizards<\/a> on a last-second jumper from CJ McCollum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bucks and Hornets were facing off for the second time in five days, as the Bucks won 123-113<\/a> at Charlotte on Monday.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee was playing its final home game before starting a four-game trip west.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Hornets: At Chicago on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Bucks: At Sacramento on Sunday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE — \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo dunked on a lob from Kevin Porter Jr. with 4.7 seconds remaining to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-388437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}