I’ve played in championship games against doctor’s orders and lost threw chairs over bad calls and lost. This quote touched the hooper in me who once burned so hot for winning, I broke my nose in a New York City rec league and came back after halftime to drop 44 – and still lost. At the end of the game, coach Mike Budenholzer didn’t call a timeout to advance the ball with the Bucks down two.įorward Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks dribbles the ball against the Miami Heat during Game 5 on April 26 at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee.
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Guard Jrue Holiday missed a crucial free throw with two seconds left in regulation, then let Butler shove him off for an alley-oop with less than a second left to force overtime. Antetokounmpo shot 10-for-23 from the foul line. Down three games to one in the first round, to an eighth-seeded Miami team that had squeaked through the play-in tournament, they gave up a 16-point fourth-quarter lead. The Bucks had the NBA’s best record in the regular season and were a favorite to win the title. The Bucks surrendered late leads in their last two games and, playing at home to save their season, couldn’t stop 33-year-old forward Jimmy Butler from looking like the answer to “What if Michael Jordan and Sheryl Swoopes had a baby?” Related Story ‘It’s our duty to give back’: Giannis Antetokounmpo and family’s charity inspired by his late father Read nowĪs the shock settled in and Antetokounmpo took the postgame podium, Eric Nehm, who covers the Bucks for The Athletic, asked, “Do you view this season as a failure?” But what Antetokounmpo said touches on the highest purpose of sports: The reasons basketball is worth the immense passion, energy and money we pour into it, and why throwing a ball through a hoop can – and should – be more than a game. It also grinds the teeth of fans, players and coaches who believe that the only reason to play is to win. That’s the essence of Antetokounmpo’s extraordinary statement after the Bucks’ collapse in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals. Giannis Antetokounmpo said the unthinkable after his Milwaukee Bucks succumbed to the Miami Heat in an epic flameout: There’s so much more to sports than winning.
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