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“Before I became the manager, I went down and watched Pat pitch a game,” Counsell told Connaughton on Thursday. “He pitched a really good game. Good fastball. He was going to throw really, really hard if he kept pitching, I know that.”
Connaughton interjected to thank Counsell for the compliment before reminding him that the outing against Boston College was “one of the few non-erratic games I had my junior year of college.” On Thursday, the Bucks guard leaned into his past as a baseball player and pitched a complete game of sorts while hosting Capture Sports Marketing’s Athletes Doing Good Radiothon on ESPN Wisconsin from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday.
In those 11 on-air hours, Connaughton hosted two-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, 2018 National League MVP Christian Yelich, 2019 NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, a number of other Bucks players and coaches and many more Wisconsin athletes and coaches, all to raise funds for COVID-19 relief. The event raised more than $100,000 by the time Connaughton set down his microphone Thursday. With donations during the radiothon being matched by Herb Kohl Philanthropies, the event raised $205,859 with donations still be accepted until noon Friday.
Pat Connaughton推文：Big day, great cause, during a tough time... thank you to EVERYONE involved and EVERYONE who supported. Wisconsin Sports came together in a major way today
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With stars from across the Wisconsin sports landscape joining the show throughout the day, Counsell’s scouting revelation and the final donation total were far from the only highlights. Let’s take a look at the rest.
A Bucks championship parade … in Mykonos?
Connaughton’s first guest was his MVP teammate, Antetokounmpo. They discussed several topics in their 15-minute conversation, but none stood out quite like their offseason plans. Although the NBA is moving closer to getting back on the floor, the future of the paused 2019-20 season remains up in the air. There is no telling if or when the Bucks will finish the season. If they do, Antetokounmpo already has a plan for what he will do after its completion.
“Before all this happened with COVID-19, I was thinking about taking the team on a trip to Greece in Mykonos,” Antetokounmpo said. “Mykonos is one of the best islands in Greece, it’s a party island. You cannot go there with your significant other, you got to be by yourself. It’s got to be a boys’ trip. Obviously, we have Santorini; Santorini’s really romantic. It has the best sunset and sunrise in the world. You can take your significant other there.
“I had the opportunity to go last year — I went with (Eric) Bledsoe and Brook (Lopez) to Mykonos — and I was kind of sad I wasn’t able to bring the whole team to experience what we went through. So, definitely, I think, after we win the championship and we’re holding the trophy and we’re all smoking a cigar like MJ, we can all do that in Mykonos.”
The Bucks hold the NBA’s best record (53-12), so Antetokounmpo’s confidence is warranted, but it is rare to see him make such a public declaration. A championship has always been the goal this season, but the Bucks navigated the regular season last year with the league’s best record, too, before faltering in the Eastern Conference finals against the Toronto Raptors. Though the loss could discourage some, Antetokounmpo actually saw the organization’s reaction in 2019 as the team’s biggest change since the Bucks drafted him in 2013.
“We’ve created an organization that plays with a winning mentality,” Antetokounmpo told Connaughton. “When we don’t win, it kind of hurts everybody. It hurts the players. It hurts the coaching staff. It hurts the front office. That’s what I wanted to be a part of since Day 1.
“Obviously, when I came to the league, it wasn’t as good. I think we were the worst team in the NBA. I knew what I wanted to be a part of, and I worked my butt off. Khris (Middleton) has been here from the beginning, and he worked his butt off also. The right coaching staff came in. We changed the ownership. The front office changed. Everybody that came in was on the same page. We gotta make this team and this organization a winning mentality. We have to have a winning culture, and I think that is what changed from the day that I came to now.”
If the season resumes, that winning mentality will face the ultimate test as the Bucks try to rise beyond last season’s playoff disappointment.
Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry ‘feeling a lot better’ about return to action
Earlier this week, The Athletic’s Sam Amick and Shams Charania reported that the NBA is in serious discussions with Disney about using Orlando’s Walt Disney World Resort as the league’s playing site to resume the season. The prospect of players fully training in mid-June and playing by mid-July has been a popular scenario.
On Thursday, Lasry shared with Connaughton why he feels more optimistic about resuming the season.
“I just think people are feeling more comfortable about being out, and I think it will get there,” Lasry said. “Also, I think the testing is getting there to keep our players safe. I think as long as we can test folks and we can give them the results that day or the next day, it should be fine. I’m just feeling a lot better about it than I did a month ago.”
His sentiment echoed much of what he told CNBC earlier Thursday about being hopeful teams will play games in the next six to eight weeks.
Malcolm Brogdon reminisces about time in Milwaukee
Criticism was leveled at the Bucks’ decision to do a sign-and-trade with Brogdon and send him to the Pacers last summer when he was a restricted free agent. As Brogdon lit up the league and Wesley Matthews struggled with his accuracy from behind the 3-point line to start the season, the conversation grew louder until the Bucks ripped off an 18-game winning streak. Whenever the Bucks met Brogdon and the Pacers, though, talk largely centered on the divorce rather than on the time Brogdon spent in Milwaukee.
“I don’t think people, especially Milwaukee fans and Milwaukee supporters, get to hear me really talk positively about Milwaukee enough and what an amazing time and great experience I had there,” Brogdon told Connaughton. “I think the nature of the business allows people to focus on the exit and how guys leave and when guys leave, and I think fans get attached to certain players, but it is just the nature of the business.”
When Brogdon first discussed his move to the Pacers with The Athletic in Las Vegas during NBA Summer League last July, much of what he said focused on why Indiana would be a good fit for him and on the increased opportunity he had with the Pacers. While chatting with Connaughton, though, Brogdon found himself thinking about the good times he had with the Bucks.
“At some point, you either have to retire or you have to move to another team,” Brogdon said. “But for me, man, I had a tremendous experience in Milwaukee. From the city to the fans to my experience with the guys that I played with, I thoroughly enjoyed every teammate I had on the team. Yourself included, Pat. We had great relationships, great bonds.”
Christian Yelich reveals Connaughton’s next dunk
The 2020 Slam Dunk Contest did not go the way Connaughton planned. After jumping over Yelich and then clearing Antetokounmpo on his second completed dunk, Connaughton believed he had done enough to move to the finals. The judges disagreed. He received only 45 points on his first dunk, which kept him from advancing to the finals despite receiving a perfect score of 50 on his second slam.
After the contest, Connaughton shared his frustration over the scoring and his disappointment in not being able to perform his next dunk, but he wouldn’t reveal what he had planned. Yelich failed to keep the secret Thursday.
“I was supposed to flip Pat a baseball while he was doing a 360, and he was going to catch it and dunk a basketball at the same time,” Yelich said. “It was really cool in practice, and I wish people would have gotten to see that. There was a lot more pressure on me on that one. The other one, I just had to stand there, but this one, I really had the potential to blow it, which I hope I wouldn’t have done if we got there.”
In his role as a thoughtful host, Connaughton quickly went out of his way to reveal that he was struggling with the dunk while practicing it before Yelich arrived in practice sessions, but he immediately hit it twice in a row once Yelich started tossing the baseball to him.
“Before I became the manager, I went down and watched Pat pitch a game,” Counsell told Connaughton on Thursday. “He pitched a really good game. Good fastball. He was going to throw really, really hard if he kept pitching, I know that.”
Connaughton interjected to thank Counsell for the compliment before reminding him that the outing against Boston College was “one of the few non-erratic games I had my junior year of college.” On Thursday, the Bucks guard leaned into his past as a baseball player and pitched a complete game of sorts while hosting Capture Sports Marketing’s Athletes Doing Good Radiothon on ESPN Wisconsin from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday.
In those 11 on-air hours, Connaughton hosted two-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, 2018 National League MVP Christian Yelich, 2019 NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, a number of other Bucks players and coaches and many more Wisconsin athletes and coaches, all to raise funds for COVID-19 relief. The event raised more than $100,000 by the time Connaughton set down his microphone Thursday. With donations during the radiothon being matched by Herb Kohl Philanthropies, the event raised $205,859 with donations still be accepted until noon Friday.
Pat Connaughton推文：Big day, great cause, during a tough time... thank you to EVERYONE involved and EVERYONE who supported. Wisconsin Sports came together in a major way today
推文配图：
With stars from across the Wisconsin sports landscape joining the show throughout the day, Counsell’s scouting revelation and the final donation total were far from the only highlights. Let’s take a look at the rest.
A Bucks championship parade … in Mykonos?
Connaughton’s first guest was his MVP teammate, Antetokounmpo. They discussed several topics in their 15-minute conversation, but none stood out quite like their offseason plans. Although the NBA is moving closer to getting back on the floor, the future of the paused 2019-20 season remains up in the air. There is no telling if or when the Bucks will finish the season. If they do, Antetokounmpo already has a plan for what he will do after its completion.
“Before all this happened with COVID-19, I was thinking about taking the team on a trip to Greece in Mykonos,” Antetokounmpo said. “Mykonos is one of the best islands in Greece, it’s a party island. You cannot go there with your significant other, you got to be by yourself. It’s got to be a boys’ trip. Obviously, we have Santorini; Santorini’s really romantic. It has the best sunset and sunrise in the world. You can take your significant other there.
“I had the opportunity to go last year — I went with (Eric) Bledsoe and Brook (Lopez) to Mykonos — and I was kind of sad I wasn’t able to bring the whole team to experience what we went through. So, definitely, I think, after we win the championship and we’re holding the trophy and we’re all smoking a cigar like MJ, we can all do that in Mykonos.”
The Bucks hold the NBA’s best record (53-12), so Antetokounmpo’s confidence is warranted, but it is rare to see him make such a public declaration. A championship has always been the goal this season, but the Bucks navigated the regular season last year with the league’s best record, too, before faltering in the Eastern Conference finals against the Toronto Raptors. Though the loss could discourage some, Antetokounmpo actually saw the organization’s reaction in 2019 as the team’s biggest change since the Bucks drafted him in 2013.
“We’ve created an organization that plays with a winning mentality,” Antetokounmpo told Connaughton. “When we don’t win, it kind of hurts everybody. It hurts the players. It hurts the coaching staff. It hurts the front office. That’s what I wanted to be a part of since Day 1.
“Obviously, when I came to the league, it wasn’t as good. I think we were the worst team in the NBA. I knew what I wanted to be a part of, and I worked my butt off. Khris (Middleton) has been here from the beginning, and he worked his butt off also. The right coaching staff came in. We changed the ownership. The front office changed. Everybody that came in was on the same page. We gotta make this team and this organization a winning mentality. We have to have a winning culture, and I think that is what changed from the day that I came to now.”
If the season resumes, that winning mentality will face the ultimate test as the Bucks try to rise beyond last season’s playoff disappointment.
Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry ‘feeling a lot better’ about return to action
Earlier this week, The Athletic’s Sam Amick and Shams Charania reported that the NBA is in serious discussions with Disney about using Orlando’s Walt Disney World Resort as the league’s playing site to resume the season. The prospect of players fully training in mid-June and playing by mid-July has been a popular scenario.
On Thursday, Lasry shared with Connaughton why he feels more optimistic about resuming the season.
“I just think people are feeling more comfortable about being out, and I think it will get there,” Lasry said. “Also, I think the testing is getting there to keep our players safe. I think as long as we can test folks and we can give them the results that day or the next day, it should be fine. I’m just feeling a lot better about it than I did a month ago.”
His sentiment echoed much of what he told CNBC earlier Thursday about being hopeful teams will play games in the next six to eight weeks.
Malcolm Brogdon reminisces about time in Milwaukee
Criticism was leveled at the Bucks’ decision to do a sign-and-trade with Brogdon and send him to the Pacers last summer when he was a restricted free agent. As Brogdon lit up the league and Wesley Matthews struggled with his accuracy from behind the 3-point line to start the season, the conversation grew louder until the Bucks ripped off an 18-game winning streak. Whenever the Bucks met Brogdon and the Pacers, though, talk largely centered on the divorce rather than on the time Brogdon spent in Milwaukee.
“I don’t think people, especially Milwaukee fans and Milwaukee supporters, get to hear me really talk positively about Milwaukee enough and what an amazing time and great experience I had there,” Brogdon told Connaughton. “I think the nature of the business allows people to focus on the exit and how guys leave and when guys leave, and I think fans get attached to certain players, but it is just the nature of the business.”
When Brogdon first discussed his move to the Pacers with The Athletic in Las Vegas during NBA Summer League last July, much of what he said focused on why Indiana would be a good fit for him and on the increased opportunity he had with the Pacers. While chatting with Connaughton, though, Brogdon found himself thinking about the good times he had with the Bucks.
“At some point, you either have to retire or you have to move to another team,” Brogdon said. “But for me, man, I had a tremendous experience in Milwaukee. From the city to the fans to my experience with the guys that I played with, I thoroughly enjoyed every teammate I had on the team. Yourself included, Pat. We had great relationships, great bonds.”
Christian Yelich reveals Connaughton’s next dunk
The 2020 Slam Dunk Contest did not go the way Connaughton planned. After jumping over Yelich and then clearing Antetokounmpo on his second completed dunk, Connaughton believed he had done enough to move to the finals. The judges disagreed. He received only 45 points on his first dunk, which kept him from advancing to the finals despite receiving a perfect score of 50 on his second slam.
After the contest, Connaughton shared his frustration over the scoring and his disappointment in not being able to perform his next dunk, but he wouldn’t reveal what he had planned. Yelich failed to keep the secret Thursday.
“I was supposed to flip Pat a baseball while he was doing a 360, and he was going to catch it and dunk a basketball at the same time,” Yelich said. “It was really cool in practice, and I wish people would have gotten to see that. There was a lot more pressure on me on that one. The other one, I just had to stand there, but this one, I really had the potential to blow it, which I hope I wouldn’t have done if we got there.”
In his role as a thoughtful host, Connaughton quickly went out of his way to reveal that he was struggling with the dunk while practicing it before Yelich arrived in practice sessions, but he immediately hit it twice in a row once Yelich started tossing the baseball to him.
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