{"id":186863,"date":"2026-04-06T08:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:09:13","slug":"milwaukee-plays-brooklyn-looks-to-end-road-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186863\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee plays Brooklyn, looks to end road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> (31-47, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (19-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Milwaukee visits Brooklyn looking to stop its three-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Nets are 13-34 in Eastern Conference games. Brooklyn is 2-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Bucks are 20-28 against Eastern Conference opponents. Milwaukee is 18-31 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

The Nets score 106.2 points per game, 10.6 fewer points than the 116.8 the Bucks give up. The Bucks are shooting 47.8% from the field, 1.8% lower than the 49.6% the Nets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Nets won 127-82 in the last matchup on Dec. 14. Egor Demin<\/a> led the Nets with 17 points, and Gary Trent Jr.<\/a> led the Bucks with 20 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton<\/a> is averaging 11.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Nets. Nolan Traore<\/a> is averaging 11.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Myles Turner<\/a> is scoring 11.9 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Bucks. Ryan Rollins<\/a> is averaging 15.0 points and 3.3 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 104.0 points, 34.2 rebounds, 24.2 assists, 10.0 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bucks: 3-7, averaging 107.5 points, 39.1 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nets: Ziaire Williams: day to day (foot), Noah Clowney: day to day (ankle), Nic Claxton: day to day (hand), Danny Wolf<\/a>: out for season (ankle), Egor Demin: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter<\/a> Jr.: out for season (hamstring), Terance Mann<\/a>: day to day (achilles), Ben Saraf<\/a>: day to day (back).<\/p>\n

Bucks: Kevin Porter<\/a> Jr.: out for season (knee), Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Bobby Portis<\/a>: day to day (wrist), Gary Trent Jr.: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks (31-47, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (19-59, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7936,30468,98,100,355,99,7937,5235,54398,74926,13977,54653,4600,1268,54661,4568,9,24,4601,7934,63,36031,4606],"class_list":{"0":"post-186863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-ben-saraf","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-danny-wolf","15":"tag-egor-demin","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-gary-trent-jr","18":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","19":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","20":"tag-michael-porter-jr","21":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","22":"tag-myles-turner","23":"tag-national-basketball-association","24":"tag-new-york","25":"tag-new-york-city","26":"tag-nic-claxton","27":"tag-nolan-traore","28":"tag-nyc","29":"tag-ryan-rollins","30":"tag-terance-mann"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}