If Antetokounmpo has his way and ends up playing 20 seasons, as he has told The Athletic he plans to do, this marks the midpoint of his journey in the NBA. So, for 50 years, from 1971 until we won in 2021, that we didn’t win a championship, it was 50 years of failure? No, it was not. And hopefully, we can win a championship.
Not have a 10-day stretch of playing bad basketball. “We’re going to come back next year, try to be better, try to build good habits, try to play better. And this year, somebody else is going to win. The other nine years, he was a failure? (No.) So why do you ask me that question? It’s the wrong question. He took a deep breath, put his hands through his hair and then rubbed them together in front of his face before responding. The question caused a visceral reaction from Antetokounmpo during Wednesday’s postgame press conference. They squandered a 16-point fourth-quarter lead in their Game 5 loss.Īll season long, the team only focused on one thing, winning a second championship in three seasons, and ended up 15 playoff wins short of that goal, which led to a question posed by The Athletic: In Game 4, Jimmy Butler scored 56 points, including 21 in the fourth quarter, as the Bucks blew a 14-point lead in the final period. Two years after winning Milwaukee’s second NBA championship, the Bucks are just the sixth No. 1-seeded Bucks on Wednesday night with a 128-126 overtime victory in Game 5 at Fiserv Forum. 8-seeded team completed its upset of the No. But the Miami Heat had other ideas and the No. With a 58-24 record, the Bucks climbed to the top spot in the NBA and were the odds-on title favorite heading into the postseason. This season, those seven players returned to pursue their second title in three seasons and prove what they thought they could have done in 2022.
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The Bucks and observers around the league were left to wonder what would have happened in that series if Middleton did not exit the playoffs in the first round with a left knee injury. The defense of that 2021 title ended in the second round last season as Milwaukee fell to Boston in seven games. All six players, as well as Thanasis Antetokounmpo, returned for the 2021-22 season and tried to lead the Bucks to back-to-back NBA titles. Pat Connaughton and Bobby Portis contributed positively off the bench throughout the run. Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton, the other two members of the Bucks’ big three, also delivered clutch performances during the championship run, while center Brook Lopez, held things down in the paint. But Antetokounmpo returned in the NBA Finals and took home Finals MVP honors with a 50-point performance in Game 6 to close out the Suns. The Bucks were led to that championship in large part by the determination of two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who missed the final two games of the 2021 Eastern Conference finals because of a gruesome left knee injury.
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