Milwaukee Bucks vs San Antonio Spurs Match Player Stats On Nov 10, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Nov 11, 2017

SAN ANTONIO -- Giannis Antetokounmpo had 28 points and 12 rebounds and the newly acquired Eric Bledsoe added 13 points and hit a key jumper down the stretch as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-87 on Friday night at the AT&T Center to snap a four-game losing streak.

The Bucks led 87-80 with 6:13 to play on a jumper by Khris Middleton, but Milwaukee missed its next five shots and allowed San Antonio to pull within 89-87 on Manu Ginobili's 3-point play with 2:26 remaining.

Bledsoe, who was playing his first game with Milwaukee after being traded from Phoenix on Tuesday, made a jumper with 1:40 to play and Middleton added another with 55 seconds left to push the Bucks' advantage to 93-87.

The Spurs missed their final five shots and got no second chances down the stretch.

Middleton added 13 points for the Bucks (5-6) and John Henson added 10 for Milwaukee.

LaMarcus Aldridge led the Spurs (7-5) with 20 points and 12 rebounds, Ginobili scored a season-high 18 points off the bench and Patty Mills and Kyle Anderson had 14 and 10 points, respectively.

San Antonio had a three-game win streak snapped.

The Spurs led 47-46 at halftime as the game featured five ties and six lead changes in the first 24 minutes, none more than a seven-point advantage enjoyed by the Spurs midway through the first quarter.

San Antonio had 11 turnovers in the half, which negated its 52.8 percent-42 percent field-goal percentage advantage.

Aldridge paced the Spurs with 14 points in the first half while Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with 14.

Milwaukee began the third quarter with a 10-3 run to sweep to a 57-50 lead. The Bucks then forged a 13-6 run to push their lead to 70-56 before settling for a 76-70 advantage heading into the fourth quarter.

NOTES: The Spurs have 500 wins in the AT&T Center. Since moving into the building in 2002, that's the most home wins of any team in the NBA (Dallas is second with 436). ... One of the craziest games in Spurs history took place on March 6, 1982, against the Bucks in the HemisFair Arena. San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in triple overtime. The Spurs' 171 points that night is a club record and the combined point total of 337 is the second highest in NBA history. ... Bucks G Matthew Dellavedova and Spurs G Patty Mills are both from Australia, both attended St. Mary's (Calif.) and played together for the Australian national basketball team as well as competed for Australia in both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.