14-04-2025
Massachusetts native scores career-high 43 points for Bucks in win
With Giannis Antetokounmpo and other Milwaukee Bucks stars on the bench for the team's regular season finale on Sunday night, the Bucks used a lineup made of mostly rotation players.
Among that group, Arlington native Pat Connaughton stepped up, scoring a career-high 43 points in an overtime win, 140-133.
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Connaughton also had 11 rebounds, five assists and two steals in 44 minutes of playing time. His previous career-high came in 2017 when he scored 24 points in a game as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers.
Before playing for the Bucks, Trail Blazers and Notre Dame in college, Connaughton was a star at St. John's Prep in Danvers.
He was named the Gatorade Massachusetts Boys Basketball Player of the Year during his senior year with the Eagles in 2011 and went on to play basketball and baseball at Notre Dame before getting selected in the second round of the NBA Draft in 2015.
Connaughton became an NBA Champion in 2021 with the Bucks, competed in the 2020 NBA Slam Dunk Contest and has a contract with Milwaukee until 2026.
Every year, Connaughton returns to Massachusetts to host a basketball clinic at St. John's Prep with young athletes. Since starting his NBA career, he has put on nine clinics at the school
