Monday Sports 1/14/19
14 January 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points, Eric Bledsoe added 24 points and 10 assists, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Hawks 133-114 on Sunday in Mike Budenholzer’s return to Atlanta.
Khris Middleton finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds to help the Bucks improve to 30-12, second-best in the NBA. Coming off a loss at Washington that Antetokounmpo missed with injuries, Milwaukee is 12-0 following a defeat and remained the league’s only team not to drop consecutive games.
Budenholzer, making his first appearance at State Farm Arena since leaving the Hawks after last season, said before the game that he wished his former team well as it rebuilds with youngsters John Collins, Trae Young, Kevin Huerter and Omari Spellman.
The Bucks are soaring, thanks mostly to the 6-foot-11, 242-pound Antetokounmpo, who scored 14 on free throws and had two dazzling assists early in the fourth. He first smothered Young to steal the ball and feed George Hill for a 3-pointer that made it 104-90, before adding a no-look drop pass on D.J. Wilson’s layup for a 16-point lead. He later hit a couple of jumpers to make it a 15-point advantage.
Milwaukee has won 12 of 15 dating to Dec. 14. The Bucks began the day outscoring opponents by an NBA-leading 9.1 points per game.
Reportedly, long-tme Packers offensive line coach James Campen will leave to take an Associate Head Coach position with the Cleveland Browns.
That news, coming the same say that Packers WR’s coach David Raih left to accept a position with the Arizona Cardinals.
In other assistant coaching news, Packers new Head Coach Matt LaFleur repotedly met with Jets WR’s coach Karl Dorrell to discuss a possible position on LaFleur’s staff.
In the NFL Divisional playoff games yesterday, New England is back in the AFC Championship Game for the 8th year in a row, after winning at home over the Los Angeles Chargers, 41-28. The Patriots will play at Kansas City after the Chiefs beat the Colts Saturday, 31-13.
Yesterday in the NFC Divisional round, the Saints came back from an early 14-0 deficit at home and held on for a 20-14 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. New Orleans will host the Los Angeles Rams who beat Dallas Saturday night, 30-22.
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