Milwaukee Bucks Tickets Awesomeseating.com is your go-to broker for NBA tickets. Whether you’re looking for cheap seats behind the back boards, a luxury sky-box or something closer to court-level, we’re your Awesome ticket broker for Milwaukee Bucks Tickets for the regular season and Milwaukee Bucks Playoff Tickets. Team History The Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns entered the NBA in the 1968 expansion. That first season the Bucks went 27-55. They won a coin-flip against the Suns for first pick in the 1969 NBA draft and selected, to no ones surprise, Lew Alcindor, who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971. The team shocked the basketball world and made NBA history by riding their Rookie of the Year to a 29-game improvement to 56-26 in the 1969-70 season. The next year they lost just two games in the playoffs and knocked off San Francisco (who changed their name to Golden State the next year), the Lakers and the Boston Celtics to become the 1971 NBA Champions. From their entry into the league in 1968 to the end of the 1990-91 season 23 years later the Bucks made it to the NBA playoffs 19 times. In the 17 seasons since they have only been to the tournament six times, most recently getting eliminated in the First Round by the Detroit Pistons. In 2000-01 the Milwaukee Bucs won 52 games in the regular season and made it to the Conference Finals, losing to the Philadelphia 76ers in a hard fought seven game series. It was the team’s first appearance in the Conference Finals in 15 years. They have made the playoffs three times since, losing in the First Round to New Jersey in six in 2003, Detroit in five in 2004 and, as previously mentioned, Detroit in five again in 2006. In 2006-07 the team lost 54 games, a 12 game drop from the season before. In 2007-08 they did even worse, losing 56 times. 2008-2009 After back-to-back losing seasons the Bucks decided not to renew GM Larry Harris’s contract in March, 2008. John Hammond, former VP of Basketball Operations for the Detroit Pistons, was hired as his replacement. In April head coach Larry Krystkowiak was let go and former Bulls and Phoenix head coach Scott Skiles was hired. In June they dealt Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons to the nets in exchange for forward Richard Jefferson. The team drafted 8th in the first round of the 2008 NBA Draft and selected West Virginia’s Joe Alexander. This team is a blank slate for 2008-09 and we’ve got cheap tickets for Milwaukee Bucks basketball. The Milwaukee Bucks are in the Central Division of the 3-division Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for all NBA teams. We have NBA Playoff Tickets as soon as the playoff situation finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to Milwaukee Bucks basketball from your trusted ticket broker right now. |