The last time the Milwaukee Bucks won an NBA championship, the Vietnam War was still in full flow, touchstone events such as the moon landing and the break-up of The Beatles were still vivid and fresh in the collective consciousness and memory, and perhaps most pertinently, the NBA consisted of only 17 teams.
The year was 1971 and, in many ways, the world in which a Bucks championship was welcomed into bears little resemblance to the world in which Milwaukee hopes to welcome a second NBA title 49 years on.
The wait was not supposed to be this long.