Friday Sports 2/8/19
8 February 2019 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
The Milwaukee Bucks have acquired forward Nikola Mirotic from the New Orleans Pelicans in a three-team deal. The Bucks will also send forward Thon Maker to the Detroit Pistons and center Jason Smith, along with four future second-round draft picks to the Pelicans. Detroit will send forward Stanley Johnson to New Orleans to complete the trade.
Mirotic, 27, is averaging career-highs in both points (16.7) and rebounds (8.3) per game in 2018-19 while shooting 44.7 percent from the field and 36.8 percent from three in 32 games (22 starts). He’s tallied 10 games with at least 20 points, including two games with 30 or more points, and 11 double-doubles this season while knocking down multiple 3-pointers in 23 of his 32 games played.
Maker, who was selected by the Bucks with the 10th overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, was averaging 4.7 points and 2.7 rebounds in 35 games with the Bucks this season. He appeared in 166 games (46 starts) with Milwaukee over three seasons and averaged 4.5 points and 2.6 rebounds in 13.3 minutes per contest. Smith was acquired by the Bucks from the Wizards in a three-team trade on Dec. 7, 2018. He appeared in six games with Milwaukee and averaged 2.2 points and 1.8 rebounds in 6.7 minutes per contest. In his 10th season, Smith holds career averages of 6.1 points and 3.4 rebounds over 614 games.
The Green Bay Packers have named Luke Butkus assistant offensive line coach and Rayna Stewart special teams quality control coach. Head Coach Matt LaFleur made the announcements Thursday. Butkus comes to Green Bay after serving as the offensive line coach for the University of Illinois for the past three seasons (2016-18), a position he also held for the Fighting Illini in 2012. Butkus, the nephew of former Chicago Bears linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer Dick Butkus, worked as a quality control assistant for the Seattle Seahawks (2010-11) and as an offensive assistant/assistant offensive line coach for the Bears (2007-09).
Stewart brings experience across numerous levels of football to Green Bay. He has spent the past four seasons at Vanderbilt, first as director of player development (2015-17) and then as special teams quality control coach (2018). Stewart was a defensive quality control coach with the Tennessee Titans from 2009-11, a graduate assistant at Northwestern University from 2007-08 and a training-camp intern for the Indianapolis Colts in 2004.
Boys Basketball
Omro @ St. Mary’s Springs
Lomira @ North Fond du Lac
Fond du Lac @ Kimberly
Hortonville @ Oshkosh West
Adams-Friendship @ Wautoma-Tipoff at 7:15 on 102.3, The Bug.
Markesan @ Horicon
Rio @ Princeton/Green Lake
Central Wisconsin Christian @ Lourdes Academy
Kewaskum @ Ripon (Sat.)-Tipoff at 7:15 on AM1600/93.1FM, WRPN
Girls Basketball
Plymouth @ Ripon-Tipoff at 7:15 on AM1600/93.1FM, WRPN.
Berlin @ Campbellsport
Waupun @ Kewaskum
Kettle Moraine Lutheran @ Winneconne
Lomira @ Laconia
North Fond du Lac @ St. Mary’s Springs
Omro @ Mayville
Fond du Lac @ Kimberly
Appleton North @ Oshkosh North
Hortonville @ Oshkosh West
Wautoma @ Adams-Friendship
Central Wisconsin Christian @ Lourdes Academy
Markesan @ Randolph
Montello @ Princeton/Green Lake
Oakfield @ Wayland Academy
Men’s College Basketball
GREEN BAY)- Green Bay 70 Northern Kentucky 42
Frankie Wurtz leads the Phoenix with 13 points in 14 minutes as Green Bay improves to 9-2 in Horizon League play.
Women’s College Basketball
Green Bay 82 Cleveland State 65
Sandy Cohen leads the Phoenix with 18 points, and the Green Bay bench outscores CSU 37-16. The Phoenix improves to 6-5 in Horizon League play.
NBA
Milwaukee @ Dallas
Men’s College Basketball
Wisconsin @ Michigan (Sat.)
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