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2011–12 Milwaukee Bucks season

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Head coach
  
Scott Skiles

Owner(s)
  
Herb Kohl

Record
  
31–35 (.470)

General manager
  
John Hammond

Arena
  
Bradley Center

Place
  
Division: 3rd (Central)Conference: 9th (Eastern)

The 2011–12 Milwaukee Bucks season was the 44th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Bucks finished the season with a 31–35 record and in 9th place in the Eastern Conference, four games behind the Philadelphia 76ers, who claimed the last berth for the 2012 NBA Playoffs. The regular season was reduced from its usual 82 games to 66 due to the lockout.

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Key dates

  • June 23: The 2011 NBA draft took place at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
  • December 26: Milwaukee started the regular season with a loss against the Charlotte Bobcats.

    • Pre-season

    Due to the 2011 NBA lockout negotiations, the programmed pre-season schedule, along with the first two weeks of the regular season were scraped, and a two-game pre-season was set for each team once the lockout concluded.

    Regular season

  • a Statistics with the Milwaukee Bucks.

    • Awards

  • Ersan İlyasova was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week (March 5 – March 11).
  • Drew Gooden was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week (March 12 – March 18).

    • Injuries and disciplinary actions

  • Center Kwame Brown, who had been traded to Milwaukee by the Golden State Warriors on January, underwent surgery to repair a torn pectoralis major muscle and missed the remainder of the regular season.
  • Drew Gooden served a one-game suspension and missed the first home game of the season for Milwaukee after committing a flagrant foul in the first game of the regular season.
  • Stephen Jackson was suspended for one game on two occasions. First by the team, after missing the bus to a morning shootaround before a game against the New York Knicks and then by the league for verbal abuse of an official and failure to leave the court in a timely manner after a game against the Chicago Bulls.
  • Larry Sanders received a two game suspension after starting an altercation and failing to leave the court in a timely manner during a game against the Indiana Pacers.

    • Free agents

    Many players signed with teams from other leagues due to the 2011 NBA lockout. FIBA allows players under NBA contracts to sign and play for teams from other leagues if the contracts have opt-out clauses that allow the players to return to the NBA if the lockout ends. The Chinese Basketball Association, however, only allows its clubs to sign foreign free agents who could play for at least the entire season.

    References

    2011–12 Milwaukee Bucks season Wikipedia
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