After a three-week selection process, the Milwaukee Bucks by Giannis Antetokounmpo They chose current Toronto Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin as their new coach.the American media advanced this Saturday.

Griffin, 48, will succeed Mike Budenholzerwho was fired on May 4 after the recent NBA playoff fiasco, according to reports from ESPN and digital media The Athletic.

This hiring would mean a return for Griffin to the team where he began his career on the benches of the NBA.as Scott Skiles’ assistant in 2008.

Griffin landed with the Bucks in August 2008 as a playerbut he couldn’t put on the uniform, and Skiles gave him an assistant position.

During his nine-year playing career, Griffin has played on five teamssy was part of the Dallas Mavericks who fell in the 2006 Finals against the Miami Heat.

Assistant to Tom Thibodeau in Chicago from 2010 to 2015, Griffin then joined the Raptors as an assistant to Nick Nurse and in 2009, he contributed to the only ring made by the Canadian franchise.

During his first assignment as head coach, Griffin will have to revive the Bucks after a frustrating season in which they were the best team in the regular season, but lost 4-1 in the Eastern Conference first round to eighth seed Miami Heat.

The failure resulted in the immediate dismissal of Budenholzer, the coach who guided the Bucks to the 2021 ringthe first for half a century, and won two Coach of the Year awards (2019 and 2021).

According to ESPN and The Athletic, Griffin and the other two candidates for the post, Nick Nurse himself and Kenny Atkinson, have held interviews with Giannis Antetokounmpothe Bucks superstar, as part of the selection process.