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The Opening Tip
What’s next for the Bucks?
What a pro wants, what a pro needs 😶 🔫
Pat Bev acted like a loser last night
Tonight’s playoff games
1. It’s so over/they are so not back
The Milwaukee Bucks, whose season ended last night against the Pacers, have won one playoff series since beating the Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals.
They’ve fired two coaches since and hired another who’s been mocked non-stop since he got there. They got old last season, made a trade this offseason, got older, and then flopped this season.
Giannis is less invincible than he used to be. Dame Lillard doesn’t want to be there. The role players don’t have their 2021 magic anymore. The team owners, not the new-age deep-pocketed entrepreneurs of other franchises, probably won’t want to pay $100M in luxury tax for a 48-win team.
It was great for one summer three years ago, which is more than what a Milwaukee Bucks fan can reasonably expect. But it’s so over / the Bucks are so not back.
[READ: When does Giannis watch begin?]
2. Daily GIF: You can’t leave Josh Hart open
The irony of Josh Hart, the shoddy shooter who the 76ers actively decided to leave open the entire series, hitting the shot that finally ended them.
3. Trivia
4. The worst commercials from the NBA playoffs, ranked
(Remember when NBA playoff commercials were good?)
2. Google Pixel’s ‘Hit That Post’ (the panda man one)
Quick hits
Pat Bev updates: Threw a ball at a Pacers fan | Told a reporter she can’t interview him because she isn’t subbed to his pod
Jalen Brunson scored 167 points in the last four games.
Want to see a billionaire in denial?
Joel Embiid is the only MVP to never make the conference finals.
Did you hear the Pacers fan yelling at every Bucks player last night?
Knicks-76ers wound up having a differential of a single point.
Small market poster boy Tyrese Haliburton shouts out Indiana.
Rick Carlisle just won his first series as a coach since the 2011 Finals.
Reads + Pods
Series clincher perfect illustration of what makes these Knicks tick [New York Post]
The Timberwolves were built to destroy the Nuggets [The Ringer]
It is happening again to the Clippers [Defector]
That's the buzzer.
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