The Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers are set for their first meeting of the season on Saturday, Oct. 24, with tipoff scheduled for 6:30 p.m. EST at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. The game will air on WCGV/My 24 in Milwaukee and NBC Sports Philadelphia.
The Bucks enter at 0-2, while the 76ers are 2-0. These teams still have two more matchups to play after Saturday’s game, and Milwaukee owns the all-time regular-season edge, 123-107.
The Bucks are 67-49 at home in the series and 56-58 on the road. In 2025-2026, though, Philadelphia swept all four meetings.
Philadelphia’s roster has been reshaped since last season. The Sixers traded Paul George and two first-round picks for Jaylen Brown and then landed LeBron James in free agency.
They also added Dean Wade, Anfernee Simons, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Ariel Hukporti. Quentin Grimes, Kelly Oubre and Andre Drummond moved on, and Philadelphia used the 22nd pick in the 2026 NBA Draft on Labaron Philon.
For Milwaukee, the focus has been on cleaning up the defensive problems that showed up in a loss to the Chicago Bulls. Head coach Taylor Jenkins pointed directly to the issues after the game: "Second and third quarter you give up 85 points, transition [defense], can't keep guys in front of us, rotations, 62 points in the paint."
"Just got to do a better job earlier in possessions, so I thought that hurt us. And then there was obviously some possessions where I thought we guarded really well in the halfcourt, just gave up some timely offensive rebounds. Kind of lost a little mojo there after the first [quarter]."
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