Nobody has forgotten what happened the last time the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics met in the playoffs. Least of all Eric Bledsoe.
A hotly contested seven-game series was ultimately decided by the finest of margins, and having once felt very much up for grabs for Milwaukee, finished with the Celtics advancing to the second round.
Even with the Celtics depleted by the absences of Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward, the expectation wasn’t for Terry Rozier to steal the show. Al Horford or Jayson Tatum, maybe, but not the precocious and volatile scoring guard.