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The longest winning streak in Milwaukee Bucks’ franchise history

The Milwaukee Bucks own the fifth longest winning streak in NBA history.
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The longest winning streak in Milwaukee Bucks’ franchise history
The longest winning streak in Milwaukee Bucks’ franchise history

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The Milwaukee Bucks are the hottest team in the NBA right now by virtue of an eight-game winning streak.

The successive victories have allowed the Bucks to occupy the number one spot in the Central Division with a 37-17 record. They are also just one and a half games behind the Eastern Conference leaders Boston Celtics, who are 39-16.

Racking up winning streaks is something not new to the Bucks. In fact, the franchise co-owns the fifth-longest winning streak in league history.

Old-school

Milwaukee's longest winning streak in franchise history happened in the 1970-71 season when they put up 20 successive wins.

Powered by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, the Bucks were such a dominant team that season, as they won the whole thing and ultimately hoisted the franchise's first-ever championship trophy. In that streak, the Bucks went undefeated for more than a month.

The streak started on February 6, 1971, when the Bucks defeated the San Francisco Warriors, 111-105. And the streak ended on March 9 when the Bucks suffered a hard-fought 110-103 loss at the hands of the Chicago Bulls.

Who is above?

The other team to rack up 20 straight wins was the Washington Capitols, who did it twice in the 1947-48 and 1948-49 seasons.

On the top are the opponents of the Bucks tonight, as the Los Angeles Lakers own the longest winning streak in league history with 33 straight wins. Coincidentally, the Bucks were the team to end that historic win streak.

With the stiff competition and the way teams employ load management on their stars, long winning streaks are hard to come by nowadays.

Does the current Bucks squad stand a chance to match or even just come close to replicating the feat made by their counterparts in the 1971 season? It may be a long shot, but as they say, anything is possible.

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Matthew Dugandzic
MATTHEW DUGANDZIC

Matthew finished his bachelor's degree in Economics (Management) at the University of Split and got his master's degree in the same field at the University of Zadar. Whether it is playing the game as an undersized 6'3'' power forward or simply watching it, Matthew can't get enough of it. After all, he has been an avid NBA fan since the 2000s. But don't get him wrong, as Matthew still loves the old-school NBA and is a true student of the game. From on-court moments to off-court stuff, whether it's about the stars of modern-day basketball or legends of the game, Matthew covers every category of the NBA world and basketball in general, as long as it makes for an engaging and exciting story.