As the Milwaukee Bucks prepare for Doc Rivers’ second full season as head coach, they are headed to Miami for training camp. Last season, the Bucks went to California and UC Irvine for training camp, and this season is quite the difference.

Doc Rivers explained the rationale for hosting training camp in Miami this season as being due to the proximity for the Bucks’ first preseason game, as per Ben Steele of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Well, because we play Miami in the first game, so it’s just easier,” Rivers said. “What I love to do, whatever team we play first, make it a warm-weather, nice place that we can just be there. We had Miami first on the schedule. I typically like playing West Coast teams, honestly. But the schedule was kind of set already.”

The Bucks will open pres

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