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Milwaukee Bucks Daily: Australia, Milwaukee Both Excited About Thon Maker

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Today’s Milwaukee Bucks daily is here as both the country of Australia and the city of Milwaukee are excited about Thon Maker.

Welcome back to Milwaukee Bucks Daily.

If this is your first time joining us for the daily roundup, the idea of this piece is generally to help keep you up to date on the best of all the latest Bucks news on a day-to-day basis.

This column acts as a means to recap what you might have missed from us at Behind The Buck Pass on the previous day, but also more importantly to share with you some of the work from around the internet that is worth your attention as a Bucks fan.

As usual, if you spot something that you think might be of interest, you can send it our way too. Tweet it to @BehindTheBucks or mail it to winin6podcast@gmail.com.

Let’s get down to it:

Best of Behind The Buck Pass From 10/9/16

Milwaukee Bucks: Five Takeaways From The Dallas Mavericks Game (read here): Ti Windisch tuned into the Bucks preseason game against the Mavericks on Saturday night, then wrote about his five biggest takeaways from the game on Sunday.

Could Jabari Parker Be The NBA’s Most Improved Player? (read here): Ti Windisch looked into the possibility of Jabari Parker winning the NBA Most Improved Player award this season. The absence of Khris Middleton will both help and hurt his cause, oddly enough.

Best of Bucks Across The Internet From 10/9/16

Thon Maker’s rookie blushes disappear during promising debut (read here): Jai Bednall of news.com.au wrote about rookie Thon Maker looking very much at home in his first preseason game, and includes the funny story about Thon thinking Jason Kidd was calling him into the game when he was asking for John Henson.

Former Mirrabooka schoolboy Thon Maker makes his NBA debut (read here): The West Australian also ran a piece on Thon’s first game, even though it was merely preseason. Between Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova and now Thon, the Milwaukee Bucks have become the NBA version of Team Australia.

Dunc’d On: No Lockout? Plus Bucks Season Outlook with Frank Madden (read here): Nate Duncan hosts Dunc’d On, one of the best NBA podcasts out there. This time he discusses the looming new CBA negotiations, as well as previews the Bucks season with Brewhoop’s Frank Madden.

That’s it for today’s roundup but check back in tomorrow when we’ll do it all over again.