Last night, the Bucks won their sixteenth game in a row and therefore remain at the top of the Eastern Conference, and of the entire NBA. On this occasion ? Their coach Mike Budenholzer has matched two coaching luminaries by validating his third series of its kind.
17 straight wins in 2019-20, with the Bucks.
Then 18 in the 2014-15 season, when he made the Hawks America’s basketball darling.
Mike Budenholzer is not a coaching dinosaur. Ten seasons on the bench is not much compared to the greats of the band, but 17 years spent filling the cans of the Spurs by feeding on the advice of Gregg Popovich obviously forged the man who very quickly became “Coach Bud”. So much so that today, the one who has just signed a 16th straight victory with the Bucks is entering a very closed club, that of the Druids having validated this kind of series during at least three different seasons.
Mike Budenholzer has 3 single-season win streaks of 15+ games in his head coaching career.
That is tied for the 2nd-most by a head coach all-time. The only head coach with more is Red Auerbach.
Red Auerbach5
Mike Budenholzer3
Mike D’Antoni 3
Phil Jackson 3 pic.twitter.com/X8LejNIt9T— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) March 1, 2023
In good company the cushy, voted best coach of the season in 2015 and 2019, NBA champion in 2021 and already among the most recognized tacticians in … history, both in terms of the prize list and the way in which he was able to impose his paw wherever he went. Squat a ranking with the Zen Master of Chicago and Los Angeles, one of the all-time masters of run and gun and the architect of the greatest dynasty in NBA history? Class, very class, but above all… very deserved.
Source : ESPN
