Bucks Add to Coaching Staff as NBA Draft Night Arrives

By Adam Roberts – 11/18/2020

It’s been a busy start to the offseason for the Milwaukee Bucks, with Jrue Holiday and Bogdan Bogdanovich added in a trade Monday night and a potential Giannis super max signing coming as soon as Friday.

The team is also officially welcoming two new members of the coaching staff that had been reported on already. Josh Oppenheimer and Mike Dunlap are being brought on as assistant coaches, with Oppenheimer most recently coaching at James Madison University and Dunlap serving as the head coach at Loyola Marymount for the past six seasons. Oppenheimer also was a Bucks assistant from 2013 to 2016 and has worked for the Rockets and Long Island Nets of the G League.

NBA Schedule News

In addition, it has been announced that the NBA schedule for next season will be released in two stages.The first half, which runs from December 22nd to March 4th, will be released on December 1st, around the start of training camp.The league will release the second half schedule later in case games need to be added due to possible postponements.The regular season is set to end on May 16th, with a play-in tournament before playoffs start on the 22nd.