Milwaukee Bucks Exec On The Attitude It Takes To Win In The NBA

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

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Milton Newton is an American professional basketball executive and former player. He is the assistant general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Newton played basketball as a small forward and attended University of Kansas. He helped lead his team to the Final Four national championship in 1989. After college, Newtown played professionally in Belgium and Australia. Since he has worked at a scout for the Philadelphia 76ers and Assistant Director of the USA Basketball Team. In September 2013, he was hired by the Minnesota Timberwolves as their general manager, but was let go by the team in May 2016. Milt Newton joins 'Forbes Talks' with Jabari Young to talk about the current Bucks Season and his experience being as a Black NBA coach and General Manager. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here now at the 2023 Forest BLK Summit right after our panel I'm joined by Milwaukee Bucks assistant
0:09.3	GM Mill Newton and Mill thank you so much for the man, and coming to the summit here in Atlanta.
0:14.0	What do you think, man?
0:15.0	What do you think?
0:16.0	First of all, thank you for having me.
0:18.0	And I think this is an awesome collection of collaborative minds that wants to improve you know this venue this
0:26.5	this sport and how we perceive ourselves and how we can add to it.
0:30.9	Yeah and well we look we need brothers like you to continue to be the way right because we see it right
0:35.8	examples are the gold card of judgment so we need good examples like yourself so we can continue to make good
0:40.7	judgments and see people like yourself so we can aim for that.
0:44.0	But again in Milwaukee man how has the season been going so far and you know in this
0:48.2	position you ran and you didn't even wear your ring so thank you for not trying to
0:50.9	blame out of me. I was thinking I was thinking away the ring on me.
0:53.1	Yeah.
0:53.8	No, I think our season is going
0:56.1	how we thought it was gonna go.
0:57.9	The one thing that we knew is we have our core back that's been together with us for the last three, four, five years,
1:08.3	but one of the key ingredients is new. And so trying to get Damon to fit in with who we have Janus and
1:19.9	Brooke and Chris and the rest of the guys that's going to take some time. You don't just
1:24.7	throw talent on and expect talent to win, not in this league. You've got to have some
1:29.5	chemistry and that's something that we're working through right now.
1:33.0	Yeah, I remember, you know, I always do, I always call around all the leagues and people I know to say,
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