Milwaukee Bucks History: The Bango Origin Story

Bango has been the Milwaukee Bucks’ mascot for close to 40 years, but where did it all start for the NBA’s most famous deer?

If you were to Google “what is Bango”, the world’s most popular search engine would answer you by pointing you towards a Wikipedia page which it believes answers that question.

Bango (music) is a music style popular at the East African Coast that fuses traditional Portuguese, Arabic influenced taarab music and local coastal bantu languages. Bongo drum, an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums.

Fans of the Milwaukee Bucks would have a different answer though. For almost 40 years now, Bango has been the deer-like mascot of…