The Milwaukee Bucks champion has a major problem with their NBA schedule.
The full NBA schedule for the 2025-26 season is here, with some marquee matchups fans have already surrounded by their calendars.
Kevin Durant will return to the Oklahoma City Thunder for a ring ceremony, with Luka Donsic facing the Dallas Mavericks in November, and Cooper Flag will face Victor Wenbanyama on opening night.
The Milwaukee Bucks have many marquee matchups at center stage. However, one player expressed disgust on his own schedule.
The NBA season is tough for players. With over 82 games, they tour from city to city for several weeks on the road, facing consecutive nights of onslaught. The Bucks do road trips beyond key dates during the holiday season, and Bobby Portis is not happy.
He posted on X. “I checked my schedule. A boy who’s not at home for Thanksgiving or Christmas? A troublesome job.”
The Bucks are on Thanksgiving against the Miami Heat and the Knicks of New York, and are on five road trips at Christmas. They don’t have a Christmas Day match, but the Bucks will face the Memphis Grizzlies on Boxing Day.
Portis is an integral part of the Bucks roster, especially with the 2026 revamped lineup winning the NBA Championship in 2021. There’s a veteran in the locker room.
The Bucks abandoned Damian Lillard and let Brooke Lopez walk, so they were able to sign Miles Turner from the Indiana Pacers. The atmosphere was odd in Milwaukee with rumors of a potential desire for Giannis Antetokounmpo to cycle through the Bucks.
The mood didn’t improve after the schedule was announced, but players know they’ll be leaving their families for the two biggest holidays of the year.
Now that the schedule is published, you can start building ideas about how the team’s season will unfold. When the Bucks see how the season begins, they need a hot start.
Milwaukee will play the Washington Wizards and Toronto Raptors in two opening games. Over half of the first 13 games have been played against non-playoff teams. The other is against the Indiana Pacers without Tyrees Halliburton.
Everyone knows that the Eastern Conference is open to the widespread this season. However, the Bucks are not usually among candidates debated to play the NBA Finals. They have the best players in the meeting at Antetokounmpo, so certainly do they have at least an outside chance?
Well, they have the opportunity to turn some heads early in the year. The soft start of the season is what it takes to gain momentum towards a brutal winter stretch, nine games that aired nationwide in January.