"Bob-by, Bob-by, Bob-by."
Any Milwaukee sports fan has heard the chants over the past five years, an homage to Bobby Portis Jr., the self-identifying underdog who provided the backbone – and the electricity – to a championship run in 2021.
It seems almost cruel that Portis would become a footnote on one of the biggest transactions in Wisconsin sports history, merely the undercard in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade to Miami. Their joint departure means no other players from the ***** le-winning team in 2021 still play for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Portis hoisted a custom-made WWE-style ***** le belt at the championship parade celebration that summer, perfectly embodying the "people's champ" ethos. In his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, he was handed a key to the city a month later, with Aug. 15 declared "Bobby Portis Day." At some point, he also became the unofficial Mayor of Milwaukee.
"When you're an underdog, you need one little thing to light a fire under you," Portis once told the Journal Sentinel. "Somebody could tell me that 'oh yeah, he's not going to do that' so I'm fired up for the season to try to prove to you I can do that. It takes one little thing for me to hear or read. If a player said that he's not reading what people say to him or this and that, he's probably lying. I do. I read all those for motivation to keep me going."
Any Milwaukee sports fan has heard the chants over the past five years, an homage to Bobby Portis Jr., the self-identifying underdog who provided the backbone – and the electricity – to a championship run in 2021.
It seems almost cruel that Portis would become a footnote on one of the biggest transactions in Wisconsin sports history, merely the undercard in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade to Miami. Their joint departure means no other players from the ***** le-winning team in 2021 still play for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Portis hoisted a custom-made WWE-style ***** le belt at the championship parade celebration that summer, perfectly embodying the "people's champ" ethos. In his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, he was handed a key to the city a month later, with Aug. 15 declared "Bobby Portis Day." At some point, he also became the unofficial Mayor of Milwaukee.
"When you're an underdog, you need one little thing to light a fire under you," Portis once told the Journal Sentinel. "Somebody could tell me that 'oh yeah, he's not going to do that' so I'm fired up for the season to try to prove to you I can do that. It takes one little thing for me to hear or read. If a player said that he's not reading what people say to him or this and that, he's probably lying. I do. I read all those for motivation to keep me going."
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