Stephen A. Smith, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, Brian Windhorst and Shams Charania join Shae Cornette on First Take to discuss the fractured relationship between Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks.
0:00 Shams on the conflict between Bucks and Giannis
2:11 Stephen A. and Shams on Doc Rivers
4:46 How does Giannis feel about Doc Rivers?
6:46 Windy is exhausted with the Bucks
8:11 Mad Dog chimes in
9:40 Stephen A. says Giannis deserves sympathy
12:30 Doc Rivers is culpable
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@eainsworthfit
April 8, 2026 at 9:13 pm
go get thibs, he’s gonna run your players into the ground but at least your teams going to be relevant because this is a dumpster fire.
@Stymiewilcox
April 8, 2026 at 9:15 pm
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Milwaukee deserves to fail. Fired a Coach that had a winning record, gets doc and they’re losing
@tezzytez_1
April 8, 2026 at 9:20 pm
These players can’t weather their teams through hard times he won a championship in Milwaukee. Has enough motion to get some players to come there. Cry your way out of your situation when they’ve gave you your brothers when both of them are trash. He’ll end up on another team and never win again like most of these players who’ve cried for a trade in the past
@terrencet202
April 8, 2026 at 9:22 pm
If giannis is serious about his legacy then he needs to get over the whole “loyal to one team” thing and move on because while he’s not getting any younger, the rest of the league is. Wemby is clearly the big of the future
@saitoms6058
April 8, 2026 at 9:26 pm
2:15 This man just asked if Doc was an innocent bystandard 🤣
@nbarealtalker
April 8, 2026 at 9:31 pm
Doc Rivers is the most highly rated and respected OK coach in the history of sports.
@bautistachristopher2216
April 8, 2026 at 11:12 pm
OK is an unserstatement😂
@RStone
April 8, 2026 at 9:49 pm
I don’t care what no one says, Doc Rivers is one of, if not the most overrated head coaches in all of Basketball
@RStone
April 8, 2026 at 9:52 pm
Also don’t forget Doc was an advisor to the owner at the time Adrian Griffen was fired. He shouldn’t escape any scrutiny at all.
@Tim_Dunkin
April 8, 2026 at 10:06 pm
It probably would be easier to be real about what he wants if he never said “Talent comes to me I don’t go to talent” 😆.
@jaketrustfindernow
April 8, 2026 at 10:09 pm
Bucks fans – “Jimmy Haslam”… your friends in sports from Cleveland, home of the “factory of sadness”
@theape6778
April 8, 2026 at 10:25 pm
Doc is the Mike Mccarthy of basketball! just happy to be on the court and still getting hired somehow
@AliFrankTheTank
April 8, 2026 at 10:44 pm
Gave Celtics Jrue Holiday and hired DOC RIVERSSSS!!
@frankromaniello9802
April 8, 2026 at 11:34 pm
Man bring mark Jackson back to coach they never give this man a job but got doc rivers still coaching and losing smh
@SyntaxErrorAbort-g5o
April 8, 2026 at 11:37 pm
How many times are Windy and Sham are going to say Giannis is going to be traded until they actually gaslight the Bucks to trade Giannis?
@Ek641
April 8, 2026 at 11:44 pm
He made his own bed now sleep in it, could have gone to a better team all he had to do was trade me, I don’t feel sorry for him
@chrisdancy1254
April 9, 2026 at 12:10 am
Doc Rivers will unfortunately be blamed for the issues in Milwaukee because it should really be the Bucks front office for the problems in Wisconsin.
@chrisdancy1254
April 9, 2026 at 12:11 am
Myles Turner HAVE BEEN a major disappointment this season
@ProfessorMiles
April 9, 2026 at 12:13 am
Doc always loses a team after 3 years. Bucks should have traded Giannas after Luka. Coach Bud was great.
@williedaviskcmo
April 9, 2026 at 1:18 am
Nah Myles turner is trash
@DonQuixoteSosa
April 9, 2026 at 1:21 am
Dame was trash in Milwaukee, and Doc has always been trash. I used to be a huge Giannis fan until this trade BS and the gambling scam he pulled. I can’t watch him play anymore.
@robertormsbee6428
April 9, 2026 at 1:31 am
You know where the bucks went wrong and I knew it from the minute it was announced the hiring of doc rivers, his past speaks for itself every time he came in to coach a winning team at the time he makes them worse
@dwell48
April 9, 2026 at 1:42 am
Bucks need to rebuild all around from a new head coach to getting younger player too.
@dontbelikeme181
April 9, 2026 at 2:35 am
The moment this team fell apart was when they traded Jrue Holiday
@Not4profit-Bot
April 9, 2026 at 2:37 am
Windy is exhausted walking up half a flight of stairs. Not really saying much here
@Not4profit-Bot
April 9, 2026 at 2:38 am
Shams is one weird looking fucher… I miss the days of good American reporting.