Report: Bucks to interview Brooks for vacancy
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Could the 2010 NBA Coach of the Year be set to lead the Milwaukee Bucks next season?
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports the team has secured permission from the Portland Trail Blazers to interview assistant coach Scott Brooks.
Brooks, 57, has spent the past two seasons as an assistant under Chauncey Billups.
A native of French Camp, CA, Brooks has 935 games of head coaching experience under his belt with with seven seasons as bench boss of the Oklahoma City Thunder followed by five with the Washington Wizards from 2008 to 2021. For his career, Brooks has a record of 521-414 (.557). Brooks's Thunder teams won 50-plus games on four occasions, including a 60-win campaign in 2012-2013. He took the Thunder to the NBA Finals in 2012, losing to the Miami Heat in five games.
A point guard in his playing days, Brooks appeared in 680 NBA games across 10 seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers. He won a championship in 1994 as a member of the Rockets.
The Bucks, the NBA champions in 2021, fired Mike Budenholzer after five seasons last week.
Wojnarowski also reports the Bucks have received permission to interview Toronto Raptors top assistant Adrian Griffin for the head coaching vacancy.
Griffin is also reportedly a candidate for the head coaching position with the Raptors when Nick Nurse was fired last month.