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2 unusual facts about Milwaukee Bucks'


Bache-Gabrielsen

Currently, Bache-Gabrielsen Cognac sponsors the Milwaukee Bucks NBA basketball team and a Bache themed bar at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA.

Brian Zehetner

Brian Zehetner is an American nutritionist for athletes and individuals, and has spent two years on the staff of the National Basketball Association's Milwaukee Bucks (as of 2006-07).


1974–75 Kentucky Colonels season

Brown was a coach with the 1973-74 Milwaukee Bucks, which made the 1974 NBA Finals with future Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson and lost in seven games to a legendary Boston Celtics championship team.

Carlos Delfino

On August 18, 2009, the Raptors signed and traded Delfino to the Milwaukee Bucks along with Roko Ukić in exchange for Amir Johnson and Sonny Weems.

Dave Cowens

In 1974, after the Celtics won the NBA championship over Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Milwaukee Bucks, he slept on a park bench on Boston Common, purportedly after wandering throughout the neighborhoods adjacent to downtown Boston to celebrate the victory with Celtics fans and an entourage of admirers and devotees.

Emmy Fink

Emmy also served as a freelance reporter and writer with Fox Sports Wisconsin working with the Milwaukee Bucks and Wisconsin Badgers.

Hook shot

The greater distance and resulting higher arc on the shot led to the name skyhook, which was coined during Abdul-Jabbar's tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks by the team's radio announcer, Eddie Doucette, who felt that "that hook was so high that it was coming out of the sky".

Maple Dale Middle School

Maple Dale has been honored with many visitors including Donald Driver, Herb Kohl, George W. Bush, and the Milwaukee Bucks' mascot Bango.

Marvin Webster

Nicknamed "The Human Eraser" and "Marvin the Magnificent", he played one season in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and nine in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Denver Nuggets (1975–77), Seattle SuperSonics (1977–78), New York Knickerbockers (1978–84) and Milwaukee Bucks (1986–87).

Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball

Leuer would go on to be selected in the second round of the NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.

WOMT

The station is the Lakeshore area's home of Brewers, Bucks, Marquette Golden Eagles, Wisconsin Badgers and Packers play-by-play, and also airs the NFL on Dial Global; however the station only carries team play-by-play, forgoing the postgame shows of each radio network.


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