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Perception is not often reality, but in the NBA, it seems to be a team or individual's most frequent opponent. When the 2018-19 season began, the Milwaukee Bucks were expected to be much improved by upgrading from Jason Kidd to Mike Budenholzer, but there was never an expectation going in that they would finish with the top seed and dominate teams the way they did on both ends of the floor. Now, having done so the previous season before bowing out in the Eastern Conference Finals with four straight defeats, time is ticking on whether they can prove they're worth their most prized asset's future. Continue to Article

November 02, 2019 11:43:am EST

Bret Just, who has been instrumental in brokering jobs for NBA and college coaches and front office executives, is joining WME's Sports department. “We have long admired Bret for the business he has built. There is simply no one with his reputation, level of relationships and caliber of clients in the basketball coaching and front office executive space,” said a statement Friday from WME's heads of sports talent Jordan Bazant and Karen Brodkin. Continue to Article

November 01, 2019 7:07:pm EST

EXCLUSIVE: A feature film about Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was named the NBA's MVP in June, is in the works for Disney+. The upcoming streaming service has put Greek Freak (w/t), which will look at Antetokounmpo's early life and current career, into development from Disney's live-action film division. Deadline understands that former Disney and Village Roadshow Pictures exec Bernie Goldman, who produced Zack Snyder's 300, will produce from a script from Arash Amel, writer of Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan's A Private War. Continue to Article

November 01, 2019 10:45:am EST