The Milwaukee Bucks finished the 2024-25 season with a 48-34 record. While it was enough to clinch a playoff berth, they suffered a first-round exit against the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n
The result triggered the noise surrounding the Bucks during the offseason. Rumors about a Giannis Antetokounmpo trade floated, and Damian Lillard left to reunite with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
As the Bucks gear up for another campaign, the National Basketball Association released its schedule for the 2025-26 season. This information prompted Bleacher Report\u2019s Andy Bailey to predict Milwaukee\u2019s regular-season record.<\/p>\n
The Milwaukee Bucks might show a slight decline in the 2025-26 season<\/p>\n
Bailey projected the Bucks to have a 45-37 record, slightly worse than last season. \u201cSomeone is going to have to drastically outperform their career norms for the Bucks to enter the title contenders’ tier,\u201d he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Bucks will remain competitive thanks to Antetokounmpo, who averaged 30 points, 11.6 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.1 blocks, and a steal per game in the last five seasons after winning his second MVP award.<\/p>\n While the Bucks must address the scoring void that Lillard left, Myles Turner boosts their rim protection, and Kyle Kuzma provides points off the bench. Likewise, a wide-open Eastern Conference race due to the Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum\u2019s injuries could help their cause.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a> has the Bucks\u2019 over\/under at 42.5 wins. Milwaukee will open the season on October 22 against the Washington Wizards. Bookies.com\u2019s Bill Speros also wrote<\/a> that the Bucks will be among the least-travelled teams this season, ranking 26th with 36,807.4 miles across 36 time zones and 18 road trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks finished the 2024-25 season with a 48-34 record. While it was enough to clinch a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-85362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}