Wisconsin News and Sports
The Milwaukee Bucks will open the home portion of their 50th Anniversary Season against the three-time defending Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Friday, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m.
The game will be nationally televised on ESPN as part of the 2017-18 NBA Opening Week schedule. The complete 2017-18 Bucks schedule will be released at a later date.
The Milwaukee Bucks will tip off the 2017 NBA Playoffs in Toronto on Saturday, April 15, at 4:30 p.m. CT. The game will be televised national on ESPN and locally on Fox Sports Wisconsin.
The Bucks will host their first two home playoff games at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Thursday, April 20 (7 p.m.) and Saturday, April 22 (2 p.m.)
The upcoming series will be Milwaukee’s first postseason meeting with the Raptors, who had been one of just two Eastern Conference foes the Bucks had never met in the playoffs (Cleveland is the other). The Bucks own a 47-35 mark against the Raptors all-time in the regular season. [Read more…]
The Milwaukee Bucks had hoped to have their new arena built and ready for the start of the 2017-18 NBA season. But the team said that projected opening is expected to be delayed by a year.
The Bucks say their construction schedule now targets 2018-19 as the new opening, saying the earlier date “simply isn’t realistic.”
The NBA had threatened to move the team if a new arena wasn’t built by 2017, but an NBA spokesperson said the league is “comfortable with the revised timetable.”
The Bucks will continue to call the BMO Harris Bradley Center home until the new facility is completed.
The Milwaukee Bucks will play three Wisconsin-based home games during the 2015 preseason, including two at the BMO Harris Bradley Center and one at the Kohl Center in Madison.
The Bucks will open their home preseason slate against the Detroit Pistons on Oct. 10 in the 39th MACC Fund game. The Bucks will also host the Washington Wizards at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Saturday, Oct. 17.
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Milwaukee will host the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Kohl Center in Madison, marking the first game in the state’s capital since a preseason game against the Dallas Mavericks, also at the Kohl Center, on Oct. 19, 1999.
The Bucks will play road games on Oct. 6 at Chicago, Oct. 13 at Cleveland and Oct. 23 at Minnesota.
The Chairman of the BMO Harris Bradley Center board told those
Bradley Center
that attended a Milwaukee Press Club forum on arena issues that he estimated it could cost $100 million over the next 10 or 12 years to maintain the building if nothing is done.
According to Don Walker’s JSOnline.com story, Marc Marotta said just to be able to maintain for safety issues and basic maintenance, it will cost $100 million over 10 to 12 years. Marotta said there’s no way for the arena to pay for that itself. [Read more…]
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is returning to the BMO Harris
BMO Harris Bradley Center
Bradley Center for the seventh time.
The arena will host second and third round games on March 20-22, 2014.
Tickets will be made available to Marquette season ticket holders and “constituents” before going on sale to the general public.