The Milwaukee Bucks host the Thunder on Friday night, and this is the Thunder’s toughest game of the season. Road game at a team playing historically great.
We don’t think of these Bucks as necessarily great. Milwaukee hasn’t reached the NBA Finals since 1974, and that includes last season, when the Bucks were the Eastern Conference’s best team but lost to Toronto in the NBA semifinals.
But these Bucks are great. They are 50-8, including 26-3 at home.
If the Bucks maintain their current winning percentage of .862, they would finish with the third-best record in league history, trailing only the 2015-16 Warriors (73-9, .