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Milwaukee Bucks History: The Bango Origin Story

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 Milwaukee’s NBA team, and without question one of the league’s greatest mascots.