Doc Rivers on his friendship with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers on his friendship with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
When it comes to baseball, Giannis Antetokounmpo roots, roots, roots for the home team.
The Milwaukee Bucks superstar didn’t mince his words when sharing where his loyalties lie just ahead of the World Series, which starts Friday, Oct. 24 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays.
“I don’t like the Dodgers. They beat my Brewers,” Antetokounmpo — who became a member of the Brewers’ ownership group in 2021 — said at a press conference after the Bucks’ opening-game win Oct. 22. “So, the moment they beat us, I stopped paying attention.”
After beating the Chicago Cubs in the National League Division Series, Milwaukee’s World Series dreams were dashed when it got swept by the star-studded Dodgers in the NL Championship Series.
Antetokounmpo said he had a “good experience” catching two recent games with his brothers.
“Kind of sit back and try to enjoy the game and figure out the rules and all that,” he said.
Antetokounmpo batted 500, seeing a win against the rival Cubs, but a loss to the Dodgers.
“One thing that I know is that I don’t like the Dodgers,” he doubled down.
Though he did give credit where credit is due, calling the Dodgers an “incredible team” and pitcher Blake Snell “good, very cold-blooded.”
Snell — who has a no-hitter and two Cy Young Awards — delivered not only one of his most dominant performances but one of the best postseason pitching performances in recent history against the Brewers in the NLCS.
“I like him. I don’t like his team,” Antetokounmpo said of Snell as the room of media broke into laughter.
“But yeah, I don’t pay attention to the people that beat us,” he concluded.
As Antetokounmpo’s team got the “W” in the 2025-26 season opener against the Washington Wizards at Fiserv Forum, Brewers manager Pat Murphy was in the house.
Bucks, including Myles Turner, had cheered on the Crew at American Family Field for the electric Game 5 finale of the NLDS.
While Bucks coach Doc Rivers and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts are friends, Rivers said the Brewers had an amazing year — and did a little trash-talking to Roberts via text during the NLCS.