NBA: Media: Budenholzer takes over the Bucks

The coaching search of the Milwaukee Bucks is apparently over. According to unanimous media reports, Mike Budenholzer will take over as head coach.

Budenholzer had met with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton on Wednesday, after talking to the team’s owners. For days, Budenholzer had been the favourite for the post. Now, according to the report, he will sign a four-year contract.

Budenholzer had only recently separated from the Atlanta Hawks, where he was the coach of Dennis Schröder and his team for years because he had different ideas about the direction of the team.

The 2016 Coach of the Year had also been on the paper with the Toronto Raptors, the Phoenix Suns and the New York Knicks and had talks with the teams.

In the Bucks, he will face one of the league’s young superstars in Antetokounmpo, but Milwaukee was eliminated in the first round against Boston in the current playoffs. It was subsequently announced that interim coach Joe Prunty would no longer coach the team.

A few days ago, Schröder also named the Bucks as a team that “goes in the right direction with the organization” and that would not be “wrong” for him either.