Milwaukee Bucks: Schedule released for 2018-19 regular season
As was the case for all teams around the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks’ 2018-19 regular season schedule was released by the NBA Friday afternoon.
At long last, the full 2018-19 NBA regular season schedule has been released by the league as of late Friday afternoon, which obviously includes your Milwaukee Bucks.
Starting it all off, the Bucks will travel to the Queen City to face the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday, October 17 to tip off the franchise’s 51st regular season.
As we’re all acutely aware of by now, the Bucks’ 2018-19 season, which you can find in full here, will be the first played at the team’s new home, the Fiserv Forum. The Bucks will break in their new digs when they host a central division rival in the Indiana Pacers on Friday, October 19 for their regular season home opener.
When it comes to how many times the Bucks will appear on national television, there’s no question they will be greatly represented across ABC, ESPN and TNT. In total, the Bucks will have 18 regular season games televised nationally.
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Here they are as followed in order by network:
ABC: Philadelphia 76ers (3/17).
ESPN: 76ers (10/24), Chicago Bulls (11/16), Golden State Warriors (12/7), Boston Celtics (12/21), New York Knicks (12/25), Houston Rockets (1/9), Oklahoma City Thunder (1/27), Washington Wizards (2/6), Los Angeles Lakers (3/1).
TNT: Celtics (11/1), Warriors (11/8), Toronto Raptors (1/31), Celtics (2/21), Pacers (3/7), New Orleans Pelicans (3/12), Rockets (3/26), 76ers (4/4).
Of course, the biggest regular season game will come on Christmas Day when the Bucks travel to face the New York Knicks in the world-famous Madison Square Garden to open up the five-game holiday slate and make their Christmas Day game appearance in 41 years.
Along with that, the Bucks will hold a Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee in Fiserv Forum when they go against the Dallas Mavericks on January 21.
As noted above, former Milwaukee Bucks forward and second overall pick of the 2014 NBA Draft, Jabari Parker, will make his regular season return to the Cream City on November 16. An additional return applies to new Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer as he will return to Atlanta on Sunday, January 13 as well as March 31 for a pair of matinee tilts.
Other scheduling notes include the Bucks having 13 back-to-backs over the course of the year and having a season long six-game homestand midway through November. Conversely, the Bucks have two separate five-game road trips coming at the end of January to the beginning of February as well as at the end of February to beginning of March.
With plenty of more time between now and the start of the season, there will be plenty of additional dissection of the Bucks’ regular season slate.
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But for now, the countdown for the Bucks’ 2018-19 season has officially started and soon enough, we’ll have our regular doses of Bucks basketball back in our lives.