BP. The People’s Champ. The Mayor of Milwaukee.
From day one, Milwaukee embraced you because you embraced the city. Every time you took the floor you embodied what it meant to be a Milwaukee Buck. Your passion, toughness, and heart helped bring a championship back to Milwaukee.
Thank you, Bobby.
Thank you for making Milwaukee home.
Thank you for giving everything to this team and our community, and thank you for creating memories we’ll have forever.
The “Bob-by! Bob-by!” chants will never be forgotten. 💚
For 13 incredible seasons. For your relentless drive, humility and heart. For transforming our franchise and our city. For delivering a championship. For inspiring a generation of Bucks fans and creating memories that will last forever.
Thank you, Giannis. 💚
You came to Milwaukee 13 years ago as a kid from Sepolia with an impossible dream. Over the past 13 years we have witnessed you grow into one of the greatest players the game has ever seen, the greatest Buck of all time, and the driving force behind an era of Bucks basketball that will be remembered forever.
From the moment you arrived, you embraced Milwaukee as your home. You embraced the team, the community, and everyone who believed in you. Your connection with Bucks fans transcended basketball. You didn’t just play basketball in Milwaukee, you became the heart and soul of this city. You touched lives throughout our community and inspired people across the world. You believed in this city and its fans when the rest of the world doubted.
After 50 years, you delivered a championship to Milwaukee. A dream come true for generations of Bucks fans who never stopped believing. You gave Milwaukee hope. You taught us that loyalty still matters. That hard work can overcome impossible odds, and that a small-market city could still be on top all because you refused to stop believing. For one night, Milwaukee wasn’t just watching history, we were living it together.
Your legacy in Milwaukee is secured and will always be felt here. In the rafters, throughout the community, in the countless people you inspired, and the way you made an entire city believe that anything was possible.
Thank you for believing in Milwaukee and giving everything you had to this city day in and day out. You transformed the Bucks in every way, and left your mark on this organization for generations to come. You’ll always be family. You’ll always be Milwaukee’s champion. Forever a part of this city. Forever a Buck. Thank you for everything, Giannis.
Kyle Kuzma told Kevin Porter Jr. and Ryan Rollins in a players-only conversation last season not to heed a message from Bucks’ assistant coach Darvin Ham.
Someone ran back to Doc with this, who then DNP-CD’d Kuzma the next game.
The Bucks are dead. Long live the Bucks.
Players come and go. The team is the thing that lasts. It's the deal every one of us signs up for, whether we know it or not. You get your window to be the man and you try to give the city everything you've got while you're there. Eventually though, somebody else comes along to take your place.
I came up in the league what guys like Glenn Robinson and Ray Allen meant to Milwaukee. Later on I got a little run of my own there, and down the road I watched younger guys like Brandon Jennings get their shot too. Now, I don't belong in the same breath as a lot of these names, especially not the one we're talking about today, but for the sake of making my point I'll include myself.
Every one of us mattered to Milwaukee for a stretch. And every one of us got moved, got old, or got left behind when the team decided it was time. No shame in it. The name on the front of the jersey will always outlive the name on the back.
What Giannis did in Milwaukee speaks for itself. He brought a title to a city that waited 50 years for one. Two MVPs. Defensive Player of the Year. He stuck around when plenty of guys his size would've pushed their way out a lot sooner, and he gave that place everything he had for more than ten years. One of the greatest to ever wear that incredible Bucks jersey.
But the page always turns. It turned on Kareem all those years ago, it turned on me and the fellas I played alongside, and now here it is turning on Giannis too.
It's just time, for both sides, to get the next chapter started.
Thank you, Giannis. For the championship, for the memories, and for repping Milwaukee the right way.
The Bucks are dead. Long live the Bucks.
Giannis Antetokounmpo's ranking in Bucks franchise history:
1st in GP
1st in PTS
1st in REB
1st in PTS in a game
1st in double-doubles
1st in seasons played
1st in playoff PTS
1st in playoff REB
1st in playoff AST
1st in playoff wins
1st in playoff PTS in a game
2nd in STL
2nd in RPG
2nd in playoff GP
2nd in playoff PPG
2nd in playoff RPG
2nd in playoff BLK
2nd in playoffs played
3rd in PPG
4th in playoff STL
1x NBA champion
1x Finals MVP
2x MVP
1x DPOY
9x All-NBA
10x All-Star
5x All-Defense
1x MIP
1x NBA Cup champion
1x NBA Cup MVP
1x All-Star Game MVP
NBA 75th Anniversary Team