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Team W L
Cleveland 21 4
Detroit 14 9
Chicago 12 13
Bucks 11 16
Indiana 9 16

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ALL-TIME SERIES:
Milwaukee trails 87-88

The Bucks have won the last three meetings of this series dating back to the 2007-08 season and now trail the all-time series by just one game at 87-88. Going back to 2002-03 Milwaukee is 14-10 against New York.

Milwaukee’s best two defensive performances, in terms of opponents field goal percentage, have come against New York. In the first meeting the Knicks shot 37.0 percent (30-81) and in the second contest they shot 34.4 (31-90). In those two games New York has averaged 86.5 points on 35.7 shooting (61-171) while hitting 28.8 percent from three (19-66). David Lee (7-12, 50.8) is the only player making more than half of his shots for the Knicks in those tilts.

The Knicks will be returning home to face the Bucks after a five-game West Coast road trip. Going back a few more games, it will end a stretch where New York played seven of eight games on the road. The ended up 3-5 in that string.


08-09 Regular Season Match-ups
Nov 2, 2008 @ New York – W, 94-86
Nov 21, 2008 @ Milwaukee – W, 104-87
Dec 19, 2008 @ New York – 6:30 p.m.
Mar 10, 2009 @ Milwaukee – 7:00 p.m.





Bucks (11-16) at Knicks (11-14)
Friday, December 19, 2008
6:30 pm (CT) - Madison Square Garden
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PROBABLE STARTERS - All starters are probable and subject to change

Bucks
Knicks
PG
Ridnour

Duhon
SG
Redd
Richardson
SF
Jefferson
Chandler
PF
Mbah a Moute
Harrington
C
Bogut Lee
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BUCK SHOTS

Michael Redd (17,968 minutes in a Bucks uniform) has passed Ray Allen for eighth place in franchise history and is now closing in on Junior Bridgeman (18,044) for seventh place.

Richard Jefferson enters tonight’s game with 8,996 career points – 4 shy of reaching 9,000.

Andrew Bogut’s game against Philadelphia on Wednesday was the 250th of his career.

Please wish Bucks assistant coach Lionel Hollins a belated happy birthday (Dec 18) if you see him today.

Tonight’s game features the league’s top two minute men with Richard Jefferson leading with the way with 995 minutes and Chris Duhon second with 994 (in two fewer games). If you combine their minutes they’ve spent 33.2 hours on the basketball court this season.

In his last five Andrew Bogut has averaged 14.2 points and 11.8 rebounds while shooting 68.2% (30-44).

Michael Redd is leading the Bucks with 4.7 assists (14) per game over the last three tilts.

Luke Ridnour has shot 51.0 percent (18-35) from the floor over his last four games.

After tonight’s game, which ends a string of six games out of seven on the road (currently 2-4), the Bucks will have played 18 of their first 28 games on the road. This is the first time in franchise history they’ve played as many as 18 out of their first 28 on the road. They’re the only team in the NBA to play 18 of their first 28 on the road this year.

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