Darvin Ham Reportedly Set for Bucks Return on Taylor Jenkins' Coaching Staff After Doc Rivers' Exit

Darvin Ham is reportedly staying with the Milwaukee Bucks following the departure of former head coach Doc Rivers.

Ham will remain an assistant for new Bucks head coach Taylor Jenkins, The Athletic's Eric Nehm and Sam Amick reported Saturday.

The news comes after Ham was reportedly considered for the New Orleans Pelicans head coaching vacancy, per Amick, before the franchise hired Jamahl Mosley.

Nehm and Amick also reported that Patrick St. Andrews and Joe Boylan, who both worked with Jenkins when he coached the Memphis Grizzlies, will join Ham as assistant coaches.

This will mark the third head coach Ham has worked with in Milwaukee.

Ham originally joined the franchise in 2018 after following former head coach Mike Budenholzer from his staff with the Atlanta Hawks, where he also overlapped with Jenkins.

He left Milwaukee after he was hired in 2022 as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, which Ham led to a 90-74 regular-season record and one Western Conference Finals appearance in two seasons.

Ham rejoined the Bucks, then led by Rivers, following his 2024 dismissal by the Lakers.

Rivers stepped down as head coach after the Bucks missed the playoffs for the first time in 10 years.

What the Bucks will look like in Jenkins' first season as head coach will depend in large part on which direction the franchise decides to take with Giannis Antetokounmpo. ESPN's Shams Charania reported earlier this month the Bucks are "open for business on trade calls" for their superstar.