Bucks’ Schedule Announced; More National TV Appearances

Jason Kidd has done what no Milwaukee Bucks’ coach has done in recent years — have a team relevant enough to get on national T-V. N-B-A teams released their full 82 game schedules Monday night, and the Bucks have ten contests slated for T-N-T and E-S-P-N, four more than last year. Milwaukee opens its regular season October 18th at Boston, with the home opener October 20th against Cleveland as part of a weeklong blitz on E-S-P-N. The season is stretched out so there are fewer games on back to back nights, eliminating four in five nights — which became a controversy last season when more coaches rested all their stars for games that some fans paid big money to attend. Milwaukee also has eight contests on the league’s N-B-A T-V, which much of Wisconsin does not get on Spectrum cable. Still, national fans are finally getting a look at Kidd, All Star Giannis Antetokounmpo, and other Bucks’ players not long after the team spent year after year off national T-V.