All it took was a surprisingly simple and understated press release to be shared on Twitter on Sunday night, and everything had changed for the Milwaukee Bucks and the rest of the Eastern Conference.
Outside of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had lost LeBron James to the Lakers, there arguably wasn’t another Eastern Conference team whose situation changed quite so much in an instant as the Bucks, though.
The path to the Eastern Conference Finals will become easier without James, and the East’s representative in the Finals won’t include him for the first time since 2010.