Back on the (nba) street … with what next thoughts for the goats in the air, wherever you go

Los Angeles – The first things first …

It is obviously not Tuesday.

You know that this sometimes happens to me, and this is one of these times: my last Tuesday in April unexpectedly turned away from the route With some breakdown messages that dribble via Steve Nash, and his aspiring radio career … Followed by a DLS MAVS podcast And then a flight to Los Angeles … And then her trustworthy Tuesday newsletter had to be promoted in Wednesday.

That was the view in front of my hotel window this Wednesday morning.
In fact, I made the trip to Tinseltown to see Timberwolves later tonight in a game that the hosts have to extend their season, followed by my long -awaited virgin visit in the sparkling new intuit dome to see the game 6 of Nuggets/Clipper on Thursday evening.

Yes: It is a wonderful (and hearty) rear backrest.

Of course, after everything that happened in Indianapolis on Tuesday evening Giannis AntetokounmpoThe future as money.

Don't worry.

We already had articles here on Sunday and Monday to dive into the decidedly unsavory future of the goats, and will surely have many, many more in short.

Photo editor Aaron loves his probability statistics and kept quoting her from his phone, so he is honored. That I have to make sure you saw the tweet of my buddy Ben Golliver on Tuesday evening About the leadership that the goats left out:

Milwaukees seven points cushions with 35 seconds in extra time Giannis and Co. Now?

The goats, as treated here on Monday, stare into an abyss that could exceed everything that is currently confronted with Phoenix … or Philadelphia … or Miami … or Dallas. Milwaukee has won a playoff series since winning the championship in 2020-21. Antetocounmpo played in round 1 (five) in more playoff games than in the two previous post -seeds (three) thanks to injuries. Antetocounmpo and Damian Lillard I only played together in two games in two seasons … And now Lillard is standing with 34 of the Rehabilitation Battle of his life after maintaining a torn Achilles on Sunday evening. And Bucks General Manager Jon Horst, who now has the security secured last week, has no control over a selection in the first round by 2031.

Horst's brave gambling in the past half decades, as we repeatedly say, led to the first title team of the Bucks for 50 years and two antetocounm po contract extensions. Only now, throughout the NBA and in the basketball public, is the Giannis-centered curiosity everywhere:

Do you ask Antetokounmpo to be traded elsewhere?

Will the goats be suggested for the first time?

“Look … I won't do that,” said Antetokounmpo late Tuesday after the collapse of the end of the season in game 5 and showed the question of a reporter whether he believes that he can win another ring in Milwaukee. “I won't do that.”

“Whatever I say, I know how it is translated,” continued antetocounmpo. “I don't know, man. I wish I would still play. I wish I would be quiet as I would go back to competitions and return to Milwaukee [for Game 6]. I don't know.”

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A big praise to the social media team from Yahoo Sports With this reaction to the tweet Dirk Nowitzki Posted after my story has been returned to Nash to accompany the new NBA team from Amazon next season in order to work on both studio and game reporting, as Prime Video ESPN and NBC as an NBA rightsolder:

Then later a day – Told you It was an eventful Tuesday – Ryan -Glasegel from Front Office Sports reported that Dwyane Wade And Candace Parker will also join the Amazon team in the near future.

So …

Nowitzki and Nash have been reunited as teammates for the first time in more than 20 years after the Phoenix Suns burned down their pick-and-roll partnership by signing the Canadian in the free agency in the summer of 2004.

And there will probably be times when Nowitzki and Wade, twice NBA final enemies in one of the sharpest personal rival of the modern NBA, will end up on the same Amazon set that the game sets off.

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PS – had some information in the closed Nash story about his postponement of coaching. More here:

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The opening round of the NBA playoffs was largely enormous – apart from a few evil blowouts. Both Oklahoma City (51 points in game 1 about Memphis) and Cleveland (55 points in game 4 to complete his Sweep of Miami) achieved 50 points this month. Two teams that do this in the same after season (per status Keeks research) have never happened before.

My belief Kyle Kuzma Would be a difference for the Bucks after you have acquired it from Washington in a trade in the temporary season, in which Milwaukee gave up the title team on the title “Mainstay” Khris Middleton will go under as one of my most outrageous misunderstandings. In the Indiana series 4-Gegen-15, Kuzma shot on layups … which calculates a success rate of 26.7%. On layups! In game 1 against the Pacers, Kuzma was of course only the sixth player in the history of the league, who played at least 20 minutes in a playoff game and a single point, a back rim, assist, stealing or block.

Giannis Antetokounmpo scores an average of 30.4 points in his last 10 playoff games (together with 15.0 points and 6.4 templates). The goats are 1-9 in these games.

Milwaukee is also 0-6 on the street in the first two post-seasons under Doc Rivers. Antetokounmpo, of course, did not play in the defeat of the Bucks in the first round against Indiana in 2024.

The Bucks have produced 25 trades since Jon Horst took over the management as General Manager in June 2017, says Bookeeping by ESPNS Bobby Marks. Horst forced these businesses per marker to separate themselves from seven future picks in the first round and 18 future picks of the second round, in addition to three tweps of the first round to which the Bucks have approved.

Damian Lillard is $ 113 million in the next two seasons of Milwaukee, including a $ 63.2 million option in 2026-27.

On the same night, Miami's season ended with this embarrassing 55-point defeat at home against Cleveland to underline the 4-0-sweep of the Cavaliers in the first round. Jimmy Butler Had 27 points, five rebounds and six templates in his first game of a pelvicontusion to help Golden State to achieve a 3-1 lead on the rockets with the second seed in the west, which is on the way to game 5 in Houston this evening.

Houston's Jalen Green Combined 24 points in games 1, 3 and 4 of the Golden State Series. Green scored 38 points in the Rockets' Game 2 Triumph.

Denver Jamal Murray and New Yorks Jalen BrunsonPresent as excavated by Stat KeeksBoth achieve more than 6.3 points per game in the post -season than in the regular season to share the largest so differential in the history of the league. In third place in this category? Denver Nikola Jokić At +5.8 points per game in the post -season compared to his regular seasonal career average.

Since the final of the Eastern Conference 2023, the heat has lost eight games in the episode of Home Playoffs.

Miami was also just the first team in NBA playoff history that lost two consecutive playoff games with 30 points or more. Even worse: the 37-point loss of the heat in game 3, like the 55-point loss in game 4, was recorded at home.

The Celtics' Jayson Tatum With three consecutive games, in which he scored at least 35 points, the Orlando series made at least 10 free throws and did not miss a single free throw. According to the long -time Boston statistician Dick LipeNo player next to Tatum has ever done that in the playoffs; Lillard did three times in Portland in the regular season (2018, 2021 and 2023).

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