After starting with one of their best halves of the season, the Bucks utterly fell apart down the stretch against a high-energy Nuggets team that won its seventh straight game behind a 33-18 fourth quarter.

Down by as many as 15 in the first quarter, the Bucks outscored the Pistons by a 72-40 margin in the second and third quarters as an electric Brandon Jennings served up a 20-point third quarter.

With lights-out shooting staking them to a 20-point lead in the third quarter, the Bucks by all rights appeared on their way to a fourth straight win. Instead, 35 points from Kyrie Irving inspired Cleveland to its third win in four tries.

An incredible streak of futility finally came to an end Thursday, as the Milwaukee Bucks took down the Phoenix Suns on the road, 98-94.

The misfiring Bucks hung with the Lakers for three quarters, but Mike D'Antoni's team eventually pulled away behind the superstar duo of Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard (31 points each) and a strong defensive effort that shut down the Bucks' backcourt.

After falling behind by 20 in the first quarter, John Henson and Mike Dunleavy keyed another bench comeback as the Bucks overcame 20-point nights from Jose Calderon, Ed Davis, Amir Johnson and DeMar DeRozan.

The Detroit Pistons survived an awful first half of play and blitzed the Milwaukee Bucks in the final two frames to emerge with a 103-87 road win on Friday night. T'was ugly.

The Milwaukee Bucks came out flat in the second game of a back-to-back set, but they eventually pulled ahead of the Chicago Bulls and emerged with a win, thanks in part to 20 third-quarter points from Brandon Jennings.

After a slow start, the Milwaukee Bucks outscored the Phoenix Suns by 15 in the second half to run away with a victory in Jim Boylan's debut as the team's head coach.

Roy Hibbert's 20 points and 15 rebounds carried the Pacers past the slumping Bucks.