Austin Rivers: Pressure is on the Bucks NEXT YEAR to win a title 🗣️ | NBA Today

Austin Rivers: Pressure is on the Bucks NEXT YEAR to win a title 🗣️ | NBA Today

Mentioned it here’s Dame with Malika Andrews after winning the Kobe Bryant allstar game MVP here with the allstar game MVP Damen Lillard Dame you joined some very elite company because there have only been two players ever to win an All-Star Saturday night event and also win All-Star MVP it

Is yourself and Michael Jordan in 1988 who won the dunk contest what does it mean to join that company anytime you mention next to Mike is is a special accomplishment um regardless of how it had to happen or what type of events they are um the fact that nobody’s done

It since 1988 I think that shows how difficult it is I have one more piece of trivia for you here you are not the first Milwaukee Buck in recent history to win a MVP here at Allstar Weekend do you know do you happen to know the year

That Giannis won his Giannis might have won it in 19 Giannis won it in 2021 the same year Atlanta and the same year they W that the Milwaukee Bucks won a championship could history be repeating itself uh we got we got some work to do but uh I certainly hope so Dave thank

You so much congratulations appreciate look look I love the honesty from Dave because it is true the buck stumbled into the All-Star break but hopefully Dame can ride some of this momentum into the final stretch of the season and there was actually another interesting moment during the broadcast

When uh Giannis and Dame both spoke about being the two oldest players on the east allar team I think Dame is 33 Giannis is still 29 so Austin do you think that right now with the urgency based off of them feeling their old bones is this the time for Milwaukee to

Win it all I think next year is the year where the pressure cooker really kind of turns on and they got to go out there and perform at that highest level um if anything this is kind of I don’t want to say a free year because with that type

Of roster and with that type of you know you talking about players on that roster you talking about Giannis and Dame they’re expected to go compete now um they’re three and seven under the old head pops uh listen I called him he didn’t call back that’s what that’s when

I know you stressed I’m like hold up man but listen he ain’t picking up your calls no he ain’t picking up nobody’s calls right now but listen dve Dave’s got to get a little bit of Confidence from this weekend even though you know it was a weird game he still won MVP

Still went out there in wion a Three-Point Contest get a little positivity flowing in that blood goes back to Milwaukee they know they had a tough last 10 games you know after Allstar breaks a whole new season you know that’s a whole new year I mean

That’s how it feels like when you’re out there at least everyone’s playing harder it’s go time it’s play time let’s see if Milwaukee can kind of tap into a chemistry here and get something going so I did hear your dad talk on ESPN radio over the weekend he did interview

With PJ carlesimo and Mark heser and I thought it was interesting because he was talking to PJ who he knows really well from his days with the Spurs and he goes what this is the hardest coaching job I’ve ever had and he said one of the hardest things is he doesn’t have a

Staff yeah like he took over in the middle of the year he’s got Dave Jagger but everybody else he inherited from the previous coaching staff and he goes I’m still evaluating the coaching staff almost as much of I’m evaluating the players he’s not comfortable there yet

And it’s hard to enact any kind of change when you don’t have all your guys you’re in the middle of the year there’s already a lot of pressure like we’ve said this before when you have Giannis on your team there is always pressure yeah I don’t care what his contract says

I don’t care the extension there is always pressure to win they didn’t make that move for Dame Lillard to go finish in the second round again that is true but the Intel we got that actually matters is that please call your son back dog please call your son back it’s all

Good clearly clearly they’re going to be they’re going to be in the lab [Applause] [Applause] p

On NBA Today, Austin Rivers and Ramona Shelburne join Chiney Ogwumike to discuss Damian Lillard and the Milwaukee Bucks’ title aspirations after Lillard spoke to Malika Andrews on winning the 2024 NBA All-Star Game MVP.

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