Bucks’ AJ Green breaks mark
AJ Green had a career night for the Bucks, pouring in 35 points and setting a franchise mark with 11 three-pointers made in the game. (x.com) He also added 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, a full stat line that helped lift his team and rewrite the club’s single‑game 3‑point book. (x.com)
Milwaukee’s season has mostly been about losses, injuries, and questions around Giannis Antetokounmpo. Then on Friday, April 10, A.J. Green turned one game against Brooklyn into a spot in the Bucks record book with a 125-108 win at home. (espn.com) Green hit 11 of his 16 three-point attempts and finished with a career-high 35 points. That broke the Milwaukee single-game record of 10 threes that Ray Allen and Damian Lillard had shared. (espn.com) The name can throw people off, because this is not the former National Football League receiver A.J. Green. This A.J. Green is a 26-year-old Bucks guard from Cedar Falls, Iowa, who played at the University of Northern Iowa and entered the National Basketball Association in 2022. (basketball-reference.com) Before this night, Green was already having the best season of his career. Through 74 games in 2025-26, he was averaging 9.8 points per game and shooting 40.9 percent from three-point range, which is the profile of a specialist who punishes teams for helping off him. (basketball-reference.com) Friday pushed him right next to another Bucks mark. After the Brooklyn game, Green had 227 made threes for the season, just two behind the franchise single-season record of 229 that Allen set in 2001-02. (espn.com) The game itself looked like a modern three-point avalanche. Milwaukee made 24 of 48 shots from beyond the arc, and Green got help from Cormac Ryan, who scored a career-high 28 points in his first start, and Taurean Prince, who added 18 points and 10 rebounds. (espn.com) That outburst landed in a strange moment for the franchise. The Bucks were 32-49 after the win, their home finale had sealed the team’s first losing season in a decade, and Giannis Antetokounmpo had missed a 14th straight game with what the team called a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise. (espn.com) So Green’s night did two jobs at once. It gave Milwaukee one of its few bright endings of the season, and it put a role player’s name above Allen and Lillard on one of the cleanest records a shooter can own: most threes ever made by a Buck in a single game. (espn.com)
