The Milwaukee Bucks have let go of assistant coaches DJ Bakker, Sidney Dobner and Josh Oppenheimer, team sources told The Athletic.
Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes first reported the news, the latest in a series of staff moves the Bucks have made since firing Adrian Griffin and hiring Doc Rivers as head coach in January. When he was hired as head coach, Rivers added Dave Joerger, Rex Kalamian and Pete Dominguez as assistant coaches. Returning from the February All-Star break, the Bucks dismissed Nate Mitchell, who was hired as an assistant coach last offseason as part of Griffin’s staff.
Heading into the offseason, Rivers told reporters he needed to evaluate the situation before making any decisions on his coaching staff’s future.
“I don’t know,” Rivers said during exit interviews about potentially trimming his coaching staff. “I’m going to make a lot of calls. I’m just going to evaluate the staff that I have here. And then we’re just going to move forward from there.”
Bakker joined the Bucks before the 2023-24 season, but Dobner and Oppenheimer had both been with the Bucks for years and won an NBA championship in 2021. Dobner started in the Bucks’ video room in 2018 and worked her way up to become the franchise’s first female assistant coach before this…
