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During the 2022 off-season, the Bucks selected [[MarJon Beauchamp]] and [[Hugo Besson]] with the 24th and 58th overall picks in the [[2022 NBA draft]] respectively. The Bucks also re-signed Bobby Portis Jr. to a 4-year, $48 million contract as well as Wesley Matthews and Serge Ibaka to 1-year deals and Jevon Carter to a 2-year, $4.3 million deal. The Bucks also signed [[Joe Ingles]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nba.com/bucks/news/milwaukee-bucks-sign-joe-ingles|title=Milwaukee Bucks Sign Joe Ingles|publisher=NBA|date=6 July 2022|access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref> to a 1-year deal out of free agency. Despite Khris Middleton playing just 33 games over the course of the 2022-23 season, the Bucks finished with a 58-24 record, the best in the league. They went into the [[2023 NBA playoffs]] as the 1st seed in the Eastern Conference and faced the Miami Heat in the first round. Giannis Antetokounmpo would suffer a back injury just a few minutes into the first game of the series following a blocking foul from Kevin Love as Antetokounmpo was driving to the basket. Antetokounmpo would go on to miss games 2 and 3 and, despite his return for games 4 and 5, the Bucks would go on to lose the series 4-1. On May 4, 2023, a week after their series loss, the Bucks announced the firing of Mike Budenholzer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.co.uk/nba/story/_/id/37424110/sources-bucks-fire-coach-mike-budenholzer-early-exit|title=Bucks fire coach Mike Budenholzer after early exit|publisher=ESPN|date=4 May 2023|access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref>
====2023–present: under Adrian Griffin, arrival of Damian Lillard====
On June 5, 2023 the Bucks announced that former [[Toronto Raptors]] assistant coach [[Adrian Griffin]] would be their new head coach.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nba.com/bucks/news/the-bucks-got-their-guy-in-adrian-griffin|title=The Bucks got their guy in Adrian Griffin|publisher=NBA|date=5 June 2023|access-date=10 June 2023}}</ref> On September 27, 2023, the Bucks acquired seven-time all-star point guard [[Damian Lillard]] in a 3-team trade.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/bucks/news/milwaukee-bucks-acquire-seven-time-all-star-seven-time-all-nba-selection-and-nba-75th-anniversary-team-member-damian-lillard|title=Bucks Acquire NBA 75th Anniversary Team Member Damian Lillard|date=September 27, 2023|website=Bucks.com|access-date=November 4, 2023}}</ref>
==Ownership==
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