Milwaukee Bucks News

MILWAUKEE (AP) _ Yi Jianlian is finally going to play for the Milwaukee Bucks. Yi, the sixth overall selection in the NBA draft in June, signed a standard rookie scale contract with the Bucks in Hong Kong on Wednesday. A contingent of Bucks officials that included owner and Sen. Herb Kohl met with Yi's family and Chen Haitao, owner of Yi's Chinese professional team, over the last day to finalize the deal. ``We had a very successful trip ...

Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva will be sidelined four to six weeks because of a torn ligament in his left elbow, the team said Thursday. Villanueva, 22, was injured during the Bucks' 103-101 victory over Atlanta on Tuesday. He fell to the floor after colliding with Atlanta's Josh Childress with 6.4 seconds remaining in the first half but remained in the game. Brian Skinner replaced Villanueva to begin the third ...

Michael Redd scored 28 points to lead five Bucks in double figures, and Milwaukee used a big first half to surge past the depleted Denver Nuggets 119-108 in a pre-season game Saturday night. Redd had 19 points before halftime as the Bucks (3-3) scored 76 points in the first half _ 40 in the second quarter. The first-half output topped the Bucks' 2005-06 season high for points in a half (74) and helped Milwaukee shake off a ...

Greg Buckner scored 19 points and Josh Howard added 15 points a few hours after signing a four-year, US$40 million contract extension to send the Dallas Mavericks to their first pre-season victory, 88-71 over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night. Buckner went 6-for-8 from the field and Howard converted his first five field goal attempts for the Mavericks (1-4). Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki had eight points, nine rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots in his first game of ...

Yao Ming had 22 points and seven rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets over the Milwaukee Bucks 111-97 in pre-season play Wednesday night. Michael Redd scored 21 points for the Bucks, who lost despite hitting 11 of 19 three-pointers (58 percent). The Rockets grabbed a double-figure lead early in the third quarter and led by as many as 16 in the second half. Rookie Vassilis Spanoulis scored all of his 10 points in the fourth quarter to ...

Mo Williams, Charlie Bell and Steve Blake each scored in double figures to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 91-78 victory over the short-handed Dallas Mavericks in a pre-season game Saturday night. Williams, the starting point guard following T.J. Ford's trade to the Toronto Raptors in a deal that brought forward Charlie Villanueva to Milwaukee (2-1), led the Bucks with 13 points. Bell had 12 and Blake had 10 while also playing the point. The trio combined for ...

Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Simmons will miss at least a month because of a stress reaction in his right heel, the team said Saturday. Simmons was injured at practice Monday. He averaged 13.4 points and 4.4 rebounds last season after signing with the Bucks as a free agent before last season. It is the second significant injury for a Bucks starter in a week. Centre Andrew Bogut sprained his lower left leg in a scrimmage last Saturday and ...

Michael Redd scored 21 points and rookie David Noel added 14 to help the Milwaukee Bucks to a 104-100 pre-season victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday night. Noel, a second-round draft pick, started at small forward in his return to North Carolina, where he played for the Tar Heels. Noel was 6-of-7 from the field, including a jumper with just over two minutes to go that gave the Bucks a five-point lead. Ex-Raptor Charlie Villanueva had ...

NBA officials used the pre-season opener for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Milwaukee Bucks to show that they are serious about cracking down on conduct after the whistle. Minnesota's Mark Blount was ejected and teammate Marko Jaric was given a technical for what the officials deemed unnecessary responses to foul calls in the Timberwolves' 98-93 victory over the Bucks on Wednesday night. The NBA recently announced that it will no longer tolerate showboating or excessive reactions after officials make ...

Milwaukee Bucks centre Andrew Bogut will likely miss the beginning of the season with a lower left leg sprain that is expected to sideline him for six to eight weeks. Bogut was helped off the court during a team scrimmage on Saturday after banging his leg into Steve Blake's knee. He did not return to the scrimmage. Bucks coach Terry Stotts initially said the injury was not serious. But the ...

Bucks centre Andrew Bogut left the court in the third quarter during a team scrimmage Saturday after banging his leg into Steve Blake's knee. Bogut, who did not return to the game, was diagnosed with a contusion on his lower left leg. Bucks coach Terry Stotts said Bogut, the first pick in the 2005 draft, was ``going to be all right'' and is listed as day-to-day. ``Whenever someone comes out of the game, you always want to ...