The Opening Tip

You gotta give.

1. Milwaukee is not cooking

The early results of the Doc Rivers-Milwaukee era are in: It’s like when Harold from “Hey Arnold!” went on the weight loss cruise. Harold came back in need of more weight loss; the Bucks emerge 10 games later with even more issues.

They’re now 3-7 under Doc after a horrific loss last night to the G-League Grizzlies, and, by the numbers, at least, they should be having hindsight regret about canning Adrian Griffin:

Beyond the record, Doc seems to have somewhat fixed an abysmal defense and completely sidetracked what was an elite offense:

In terms of vibes, Doc is already gearing up the blame game, while manic Dame fans are making (convincing) threads on Twitter arguing that Brook Lopez hates Lillard.

2. Daily GIF: Logo pull-up for the record

Caitlin Clark needed eight points to become the all-time Division I women’s leading scorer last night. She got it 2:15 into the game on a pull-up 3 from the logo and finished the game with a career-high 49 points.

3. Trivia

4. There are too many goddamn documentaries

Four years ago, we were treated to “The Last Dance,” a 10-part, 10-hour pseudo-documentary about Michael Jordan’s final season with the Bulls.

It worked because …

But its legacy is the greenlighting of never-ending cheap imitations by less interesting topics and athletes like Derek Jeter, Joe Montana and Tom Brady.

Latest example: There is apparently a camera crew following around the Boston Celtics this year to film a Last Dance-style doc, which must now set the bar for least interesting focus of a mega sports doc yet.

The 2023-24 Celtics are really good and might win the title, but the 1998 Bulls and/or Michael Jordan, they are not.

Depending on how the season goes, this production will appease one of two niches:

But it will not have the mass appeal the people who greenlit this idea are hoping for.

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