Griffin’s training profession started throughout a stint as a Bucks assistant on Scott Skiles’ staff from 2008-10.
“The Bucks are a championship organization and I’m thrilled to work with an established roster of high-character and talented players,” Griffin said in a declaration launched by the group. “I’m excited to be back in Milwaukee and I can’t wait to get started.”
The 48-year-old Griffin started his very first Milwaukee training stint after ending a nine-year NBA playing profession that consisted of stops with the Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets. Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics.
He likewise was an assistant with the Chicago Bulls (2010-15), Orlando Magic (2015-16) and Oklahoma City Thunder (2016-18) prior to signing up with Toronto’s staff.
“Adrian is a widely-respected coach and former player, who brings great leadership and experience to our team,” Bucks basic supervisor Jon Horst said in a declaration.
“His championship-level coaching pedigree, character, basketball acumen and ability to connect with and develop players makes him the ideal choice to lead our team. He has earned this opportunity.”
Griffin deals with the obstacle of changing a coach who led the Bucks to their very first title in half a century.
Budenholzer coached the Bucks to a league-best 271-120 regular-season record in his 5 seasons and coached the 2020-21 Bucks to an NBA champion, their very first considering that 1971.
The Bucks made the training modification due to the fact that their post-season fortunes hadn’t matched their regular-season success for the majority of Budenholzer’s period.
Milwaukee had the NBA’s finest regular-season record 3 of Budenholzer’s 5 seasons however didn’t make it beyond the Eastern Conference finals in any of those 3 years.
The Bucks blew a 2-0 lead and lost 4-2 in the 2019 Eastern Conference finals to the ultimate NBA champ Raptors throughout Griffin’s very first season in Toronto. The Bucks fell 4-1 to Miami in the 2nd round of the 2020 playoffs in the Walt Disney World post-season bubble.
This year, the Bucks lost 4-1 to Miami in the preliminary after going 58-24 in the routine season. They were simply the 6th No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 8 seed in the opening round, and the only No. 1 seed that stopped working to win more than one championship game.
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Steve Megargee, The Associated Press