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Disaster always feels like it’s around the corner from the Milwaukee Bucks, a team that loves dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight in elimination games. Peril one minute, prosperity the next. Seventh heaven, seventh hell. It feels surer than ever that given the evidence and health of the participants, the Bucks are the better and deeper team compared to the Brooklyn Nets. They’ll enter Saturday night’s Game 7 in Brooklyn far removed from the club that trailed by nearly 50 in Game… Source link

Facing down the possibility of yet another ignominious Eastern Conference exit, the Milwaukee Bucks have forced a Game 7 against the NBA’s title favorites. Behind a playoff career-high 38 points from Khris Middleton, the Bucks defeated the Brooklyn Nets 104-89 on Thursday in Game 6 to even the series 3-3. The teams will play a Game 7 on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET in Brooklyn. The win is a welcome response for the Bucks, who fell behind 3-2 after blowing a 17-point second-half lead in Game 5… Source link

Momentum’s a funny thing, isn’t it? Two games into their Eastern Conference semifinals series, the Brooklyn Nets were up 2-0 and weren’t even in their final form. Despite missing James Harden, the Nets had steamrolled the Milwaukee Bucks twice, and looked like the NBA’s presumptive champion. Two and a half games later, they were well into a downward spiral, down 16 at the half despite the return of Harden and on the verge of a 3-2 series deficit. And now, thanks to Kevin Durant‘s best… Source link

Anything is bound to happen in Milwaukee, from cringeworthy ankle sprains to fire alarms breaking out 15 minutes after a game. What’s been unexpectedly birthed after Sunday afternoon is a playoff series. Sure, the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks have been at this for about a week already, but the results appeared clear before the ball of Kyrie Irving’s right ankle basically touched the hardwood at Fiserv Forum: The Nets were superior and on the verge of sending the Bucks to a summer of… Source link

The Milwaukee Bucks finally looked like the Milwaukee Bucks in dominating the second half of Game 4 to take a 107-96 win over the Brooklyn Nets and even the Eastern Conference semifinals series at 2-2.  Giannis Antetokounmpo outdueled the Nets’ Kevin Durant after Kyrie Irving was ruled out for the remainder of the game with a right ankle sprain. Antetokounmpo scored 34 points and had 12 rebounds. Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday got comfortable and scored 19 and 14 points,… Source link

The Nets had hustle and star power in Game 1. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) Even with only a big 2 (or big 14, according to Kevin Durant), the Brooklyn Nets are still formidable. The Milwaukee Bucks confirmed that for themselves on Saturday. The Nets defeated the Bucks 115-107 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, riding big nights from Durant and Kyrie Irving at home in Barclays Center. The game opened with a brutal turn of events for the Nets, as James Harden exited after… Source link

Injuries have been a main character throughout this NBA season, so it would be unrealistic for it to allow the most anticipated playoff series to unfold uninterrupted. But for some reason, James Harden coming up lame in the first minute seemed to affect the Milwaukee Bucks more than the Brooklyn Nets. Perhaps it’s because the Nets have dealt with uneven turf all season, yet still find themselves discovering new elements, morphing into a more dogged bunch. Harden’s nonemotional reaction to… Source link

A controversial call at the end of the first half of Game 1 of the Brooklyn Nets versus Milwaukee Bucks Eastern Conference semifinal series resulted in a bad beat for some bettors. The first-half spread was Nets -2 over at BetMGM. And if you put money on the Nets covering the two points going into halftime, you were sitting pretty when they took an 11-point lead with 3:22 left in the second quarter. The lead for Brooklyn was eight points, 61-53, at the 1:57 mark and then seven points, 63-56,… Source link

The Milwaukee Bucks didn’t have a warm-up act, no time to build confidence against a lower-seeded piñata, walking right into the fire against the team that exposed them last summer. And instead of cowering or falling to old habits, the Bucks made the Miami Heat go “poof” in quick fashion, perhaps the first step in changing the narrative — or at the very least, returning the favor in exposing Miami’s roster flaws, creating questions for the future. The first team to sweep its… Source link

The 76ers completed the third blowout win of the day on Saturday with their victory against the Wizards. (Rob Carr/Getty Images) Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NBA playoff tracker, your daily one-stop shop for all the latest game results from each NBA playoff series. Here’s a look at Saturday’s games. The Philadelphia 76ers are now just one game away from advancing to the next round. The 76ers cruised to a dominant 132-103 win over the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on Saturday night to… Source link