{"id":715958,"date":"2026-04-22T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:39:41","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-end-of-season-player-review-quiz-kevin-porter-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715958\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks End-of-Season Player Review & Quiz: Kevin Porter Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pop quiz one focused on Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, while pop quiz two featured Ryan Rollins<\/a>. Up next is the most divisive Buck, Kevin \u201cSakuta\u201d Porter Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Season in a snippet<\/p>\n

38 GP, 33.2 MPG, 17.4 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 7.4 APG, 2.2 SPG, 0.5 BPG, .465\/.322\/.878<\/p>\n

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Kyle\u2019s end of season grade<\/a>: B-<\/p>\n

Porter ended last season on such a tear that Jon Horst waived and stretched Damian Lillard<\/a>\u2019s contract\u00a0to sign Myles Turner<\/a> and hand him the keys\u2014and I wrote a\u00a0screenplay<\/a>\u00a0about it! Everything looked good early too. Porter was\u00a0officially named starting point guard<\/a>\u00a0in late November, and through the first nine minutes of opening night he\u00a0already\u00a0had 10 points, two assists, and a steal. Then, in what would end up being a harbinger of things to come for both Porter\u00a0and\u00a0the Bucks, he\u00a0rolled an ankle<\/a>\u00a0stepping on Bobby Portis<\/a>\u2019 foot that caused him to miss several games. Things only got worse for KPJ when he sustained a\u00a0meniscus injury<\/a>\u00a0during on-court return-to-play training that kept him sidelined for another four weeks. Still, I was so convinced that this was his \u201crebirth\u201d season that I doubled down and wrote another screenplay<\/a>\u00a0in preparation for his return.<\/p>\n

When he\u00a0did\u00a0return, KPJ\u2019s play vindicated my efforts; the Bucks immediately snapped a seven-game losing streak and Porter started posting monster stat lines\u2014thirty-point nights, triple-doubles, nearing the league lead in steals. However, as has been the case throughout his career, his play didn\u2019t always translate to wins, with the Bucks hovering around .500 until he was forced out yet again, this time with knee swelling. His return from this was much more successful from a winning standpoint\u2014the Bucks went 7-2 as Porter put up 21.9 PPG, 5.4 RPG, 7.9 APG, and 2.7 SPG\u2014but it didn\u2019t last long. The Bucks spiralled and Porter underwent season-ending knee surgery<\/a>, leaving him to spend the off-season rehabbing and mulling over his player option for 2026\u201327.<\/p>\n

Tantalising totals<\/p>\n

(1) Porter finished with nine double-digit assist performances in just 38\u00a0total games. How many did the rest of the team have combined?<\/p>\n

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Click to reveal answer Nine (Rollins 4, Giannis 2, Dieng<\/a> 2, Sims 1).<\/p>\n

(2) Porter led the Bucks with two triple-doubles on the season. Against which Eastern Conference teams did he achieve these?<\/p>\n

Click to reveal answer Boston<\/a> (18, 10, 13) and Orlando<\/a> (18, 10, 11). Both wins.<\/p>\n

(3) Porter hit 35\/92 three-pointers (38%) in his first 19 games of the season. How many did he hit in his final 19 games?<\/p>\n

Click to reveal answer 11\/51 (22%).<\/p>\n

Atypically advanced<\/p>\n

(1) True or false: Despite being maligned for over-dribbling and shooting, Porter had a higher assist-to-usage ratio than Jrue Holiday<\/a>, Derrick White<\/a>, Devin Booker<\/a>, and Donovan Mitchell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Click to reveal answer True, 1.21 compared to Holiday\u2019s 1.18, White\u2019s 0.94, Booker\u2019s 0.89, and Mitchell\u2019s 0.80.<\/p>\n

(2) True or false: Porter\u2019s true shooting percentage this season (56.7%) was a career high?<\/p>\n

Click to reveal answer True, besting his previous career-high of 56.5% in 2021-22.<\/p>\n

Obscure optics <\/p>\n

(1) Planning for this season, the Bucks put a lot of stock in last season\u2019s Porter-Trent-Green-Giannis-Portis five-man lineup, which finished with a +56.0 net rating. Substituting Portis for Turner, this lineup was again highly successful, finishing with a +42.9 net rating. How many total minutes did they play together: 17, 55, 99, or 174?<\/p>\n

Click to reveal answer 17 (technically, 16.42).<\/p>\n

How did you fare? Share your score in the comments, and don\u2019t forget to drop your thoughts along with it\u2014which stat stands out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop quiz one focused on Giannis Antetokounmpo, while pop quiz two featured Ryan Rollins. Up next is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,507,45,103,125,1243,2292,26418,864,123,2038,365,102,121,3871,367,6,191,47,10568,2763,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-715958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-bucks","12":"tag-damian-lillard","13":"tag-derrick-white","14":"tag-devin-booker","15":"tag-dieng","16":"tag-donovan-mitchell","17":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","18":"tag-jrue-holiday","19":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","20":"tag-milwaukee","21":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","22":"tag-milwaukeebucks","23":"tag-myles-turner","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-new-york-knicks","26":"tag-orlando","27":"tag-porter-jr","28":"tag-ryan-rollins","29":"tag-the-bucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116449113762206925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}