Christina Gough
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Milwaukee Bucks - Statistics & Facts
The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team which compete in the National Basketball Association’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded as an expansion team in 1968.
The Milwaukee Bucks currently play their home games at the indoor Bradley Center in downtown Milwaukee. During the 2021/22 NBA season, the average regular season home attendance for a Bucks game was 17,453 and total attendance for that season amounted to 715,581. The Bucks generated around 352 million U.S. dollars in revenue during the 2021/22 season and the team’s operating income for that season amounted to around 51 million U.S. dollars. The franchise value of the Milwaukee Bucks stood at around 2.3 billion U.S. dollars during latest estimates in 2022. The team is owned by a group led by billionaire hedge fund managers, Weslie Edens and Marc Lasry, who bought the team from former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl in 2014 at a purchase price of 550 million U.S. dollars.
The Bucks won their first NBA championship title three years after the franchise's inception in 1971 under the leadership of hall of famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. A second title followed almost 40 years later in 2021, when the Bucks beat the Phoenix Suns 4-2 in the finals. As of 2022, the Bucks had over 3.9 million fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
The Milwaukee Bucks currently play their home games at the indoor Bradley Center in downtown Milwaukee. During the 2021/22 NBA season, the average regular season home attendance for a Bucks game was 17,453 and total attendance for that season amounted to 715,581. The Bucks generated around 352 million U.S. dollars in revenue during the 2021/22 season and the team’s operating income for that season amounted to around 51 million U.S. dollars. The franchise value of the Milwaukee Bucks stood at around 2.3 billion U.S. dollars during latest estimates in 2022. The team is owned by a group led by billionaire hedge fund managers, Weslie Edens and Marc Lasry, who bought the team from former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl in 2014 at a purchase price of 550 million U.S. dollars.
The Bucks won their first NBA championship title three years after the franchise's inception in 1971 under the leadership of hall of famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. A second title followed almost 40 years later in 2021, when the Bucks beat the Phoenix Suns 4-2 in the finals. As of 2022, the Bucks had over 3.9 million fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
