Bucks/Celtics was a shockingly ugly game for most of the contest.
And then, as playoff basketball has a tendency to do, it got good at the end. After Terry Rozier hit a three to put the Celtics up 99-96 with just .5 seconds remaining. The odds were quite long.
And then Khris Middleton happened:
That’s absolutely nuts, and he did somehow get it off.
The odds of that going in were longer than they seemed, and they seemed plenty long:
Some Boston fans were understandably (and in this case enjoyably) perplexed:
But best of all, Gus Johnson was on the call for Fox Sports Wisconsin:
https://twitter.com/fswisconsin/status/985603623781482496
That’s fantastic. In the end, it wasn’t enough; Boston prevailed in overtime, 113-107.