Damian Lillard has become some kind of a forgotten man in the 2025-26 NBA season. After all, he’s missing the entire campaign as he recovers from a devastating torn Achilles tendon injury he suffered in the 2025 NBA Playoffs while still with the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Portland Trail Blazers will be without six players for their 5 p.m. PT matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks, who are down four players — including star forwa

The Detroit Pistons face the Milwaukee Bucks in a regular season NBA game on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025 (11/22/25) at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Detroit has covered the spread in 4 straight games, while the Bucks are just 1-6 ATS in their last 7. The Pistons are better than Milwaukee in every statistical category, including their 6.7 net rating (fourth in NBA) compared to Milwaukee's -1.4 (20th).

Both the Milwaukee Bucks and Portland Trail Blazers may be without multiple key players in Monday night's matchup.

The Milwaukee Bucks (8–8, 10th in the Eastern Conference) host the Detroit Pistons (13–2, 1st in the East) at Fiserv Forum on Saturday ( 8 ET, NBA TV ). Milwaukee is coming off a 123–114 overtime loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday, while Detroit hasn’t played since Tuesday’s 120–112 win over the Atlanta Hawks.

The Milwaukee Bucks are in the middle of a truly rough stretch of results, which continued on Monday night. As the visiting Portland Trailblazers rolled into town, one of the big storylines of the night was one of the Blazers who was not suiting up: Damian Lillard was back in Milwaukee after his stunning offseason release.