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The Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> are going to be searching for a new head coach once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to multiple reports on Sunday night, including ESPN<\/a> and The Athletic<\/a>, Doc Rivers<\/a> has agreed to step aside as the team’s head coach following a disappointing 32-50 season that saw it miss the postseason for the first time since the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n Rivers signed a $40M contract with the team when he was hired in 2024, and he still has one year remaining on that deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, Rivers and the Bucks are discussing if he will move into an advisory role with the organization.<\/p>\n In Rivers’ two-plus seasons as the Bucks head coach, the team compiled a 97-103 record, losing in the first-round of the playoffs two times (2023-24 and 2024-25) before missing out entirely this season.<\/p>\n Injuries played a major role in a lot of those struggles, with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard missing significant time during his first two years with the Bucks, while Antetokounmpo played in only 36 games this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even without the injuries, Rivers and the Bucks never seemed to be a great fit.<\/p>\n Along with another coaching change, which will be their fifth different head coach since the start of 2022-23 season, the Bucks also have to deal with the question of what happens with Antetokounmpo going into the offseason.<\/p>\n He has been the subject of trade rumors for more than a year now, and those rumors figure to reach a boiling point this offseason as he enters the final year of his contract. He does have a $62.7M player option after next season, but he figures to be a serious trade candidate if no new contract extension is signed early in the offseason. At this point, such an extension seems unlikely.\u00a0<\/p>\n All signs point to a major offseason of change for the Bucks. That change started on Sunday as soon as the 2025-26 regular season came to an end.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nDoc Rivers’ brief tenure with Milwaukee Bucks was mostly disappointing<\/h2>\n