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Terry Stotts and Milwaukee Bucks head coach Adrian Griffin had an incident during the shootaround, followed by a tenuousrelationship between the two, which eventually led to Stotts' resignation.

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On Thursday, reports emerged that Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Terry Stotts decided to resign, and now more details came out.

Shams Charania from The Athletic reports that Stotts and head coach Adrian Griffin had an incident during the shootaround.

According to a report, Griffin finished the shootaround and gathered the team for a huddle. During that huddle, Griffin informed the coaches that he wanted to have a separate huddle with them once they wrapped things up.

However, after the players and coaches huddle, Stotts went with the players instead of staying with the coaches. Griffin called Stotts to join the coaching huddle. When Stotts asked for some time with the players, Griffin yelled for Stotts to join the coaches' huddle. The incident occurred in front of the entire team, those sources said.

Before the incident happened, the relationship between Stotts and Griffin was already tenuous, Charania reports.

"You're going to have to ask Terry," Griffin told the reporters after being asked why Stotts resigned. "He's a great coach. I really enjoyed getting to know him. Terrific person. It was his decision. I just wish him the best."

"It caught all of us off guard, of course, but again, you just support him. "He was a terrific guy. I learned a lot from him in a very short time. He was really good at what he does. He made a decision - a personal decision - and we just have to respect that," Griffin added.

Meanwhile, Bucks guard Damian Lillard revealed he spoke with Stotts, emphasizing his long-time relationship with the former Portland Trail Blazers head coach.

"We spoke directly," Lillard said. "I don't expect anything different. We spend so much time around each other in this league. Seven, eight months a year, practice every day, flights, hotels, dinners, watching film, we share a lot of intimate spaces.

Like I said, being with him for nine years and him being my head coach, me being the point guard of his team, we spent a lot of time around each other. We know each other really well, even in the two years without him, we stayed in pretty consistent contact. So, I don't expect anything different than him to call me directly, and that's how it happened," Lillard added.

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