The Milwaukee Bucks have parted ways with assistant coaches DJ Bakker, Sidney Dobner, and Josh Oppenheimer, according to sources.
The revelation, first reported by Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes, is the latest in a series of personnel changes made by the Bucks after firing Adrian Griffin and hiring Doc Rivers as head coach in January. When Rivers was hired as head coach, he added Dave Joerger, Rex Kalamian, and Pete Dominguez as assistant coaches. When the Bucks returned from the February All-Star break, they fired Nate Mitchell, who had been hired as Griffin’s assistant coach the previous offseason.
Rivers told reporters before the offseason began that he needed to assess the situation before making any choices on the future of his coaching staff.
“I don’t know,” Rivers remarked during exit interviews regarding perhaps reducing his coaching staff. “I am going to make a lot of calls. I’m simply going to assess the team that I have here. And then we’ll simply move on from there.”
Bakker joined the Bucks before to the 2023-24 season, but Dobner and Oppenheimer had been with the team for some years and won the NBA championship in 2021. Dobner began working in the Bucks’ video room in 2018 and rose through the ranks to become the franchise’s first female assistant coach before this season. Oppenheimer joined the Bucks’ coaching staff in
