{"id":717032,"date":"2026-04-24T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717032\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:54:32","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-hires-former-grizzlies-coach-taylor-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717032\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks hires former Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fri, April 24, 2026 at 2:18 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4f64555598a5dbfff5830d7e6c2bac9b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 Former Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins is finalizing a deal to become the next head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins compiled a 250-214 record as the head coach of the Grizzlies and is the franchise\u2019s all-time winningest coach. He led Memphis to three postseason appearances in his six seasons. Jenkins was fired by the Grizzlies with just nine games remaining in the 2024-25 regular season.<\/p>\n<p>This is Jenkins\u2019 second stint with the Bucks after he served as an assistant under former Milwaukee coach Mike Budenholzer for the 2018-2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WREG.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WREG.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, April 24, 2026 at 2:18 AM UTC MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 Former Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,2559,293,177,4070,3358,121,6,89378,4194,361,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-717032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-head-coach","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-mike-budenholzer","15":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-postseason-appearances","18":"tag-taylor-jenkins","19":"tag-the-bucks","20":"tag-the-grizzlies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116459082512889816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717032","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=717032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}