The NBA announced the changes this afternoon
Following the wildfires in Los Angeles along with the snowstorm in New Orleans, the NBA has announced a handful of schedule changes across the league.
There are four Milwaukee Bucks games that are impacted:
- Milwaukee at New Orleans (prev. scheduled for January 22nd, now scheduled for Sun., April 6th at 7:30 p.m. CDT)
- Milwaukee at Los Angeles Lakers (prev. scheduled for March 18th, now scheduled for Thurs., March 20th at 9:30 p.m. CDT)
- Milwaukee at Golden State (prev. scheduled for March 20th, now scheduled for Tues., March 18th at 9 p.m. CDT)
- New Orleans at Milwaukee (prev. scheduled for April 9th, now scheduled for Thurs., April 10th at 7 p.m. CDT)
This does add a back-to-back in April. The Bucks will now face the Heat in Miami on April 5th and then square off against the Pelicans the next night in New Orleans. Of all the possible pairings this is a pretty good outcome since it should help cut down on travel fatigue a little bit given the proximity of the two cities to one another.
That new date for the Pelicans’ visit to Milwaukee means the Bucks will now play back-to-back on April 10th and 11th, first hosting New Orleans on the 10th before heading to Detroit to play the Pistons on the 11th. Previously they were set to play the Timberwolves on the 8th and Pelicans on the 9th; all that has happened is a shift of the B2B a day later.
The only change in their west coast trip in March is the order of games. They’ll now start in Golden State then travel to Los Angeles to play the Lakers.
In short, the league moved a good chunk of things around to make up that postponement:
Whoa.
NINE different games were rescheduled to get the #Bucks back in New Orleans — including two other Bucks games on their March west coast swing.
— Jim Owczarski (@jimowczarski.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T17:35:39.736Z
What does it all mean? It looks like something of a coup for the Bucks who will now face the Pelicans twice late in the season when their already-underway tank job goes the way of total farce as they battle for draft lottery position (they currently sit at 12-35 hot on the heels of the equally-awful Jazz). Catching up to the Knicks or Celtics at the second and third seed in the East may be a tall order, but the chance to pad Milwaukee’s place in the four slot isn’t the worst possible outcome.
Here’s to no more historic snowfalls that require ever more convoluted schedule machinations to get all 82 games across the line!