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Being too busy with work, friends and family can sometimes cause me to miss important sporting events I’d like to see. But I was especially grateful to be busy enough to miss watching the Milwaukee Bucks playoff series against the Boston Celtics over the past couple of weeks.

It’s not because I didn’t want to watch the team defend its 2021 championship, but more so because of the stress and frustration this Bucks team gave me.

Sure, I’m a little too invested for a guy who lives in central Wisconsin and has relatively no relationship to Milwaukee and basketball outside of the Bucks but, not to be dramatic, this season and series most certainly took years off my life.

Although the Bucks came out and grabbed three victories that resulted in series leads including the first game in Boston, it never really felt like the Bucks were in control of this matchup. The game five victory and ensuing letdowns in games six and seven really solidifi ed my thought that this year was one of the most frustrating Bucks seasons to date.

During the fifth game where the winner all but secures a chance to play in the Eastern Conference Finals (unless you’re the 2022 Milwaukee Bucks), the Bucks were down by 14 points with 10 minutes to play.

Up until that point, they had shot poorly from the three-point line, and struggled to match the energy the Celtics were bringing on their home court.

Wouldn’t you know it, those Bucks caught fire and rattled off six straight threes and played stellar defense to come back and take a 110-107 victory.

Now in what world should that have been a game they had won? I am particularly glad that was one of the only games I caught of the series. Game seven in Boston was one of those games that I missed and it saved me from being reduced to a blob on the floor as I would have watched the Celtics parade around The Garden, knowing they had knocked off the defending champions.

This feeling of disappointment can’t be because we are used to this team breeding success after one championship season can it? Maybe, it’s the fact that the second best player wasn’t able to suit up and a year of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s prime has will now be forgotten.

Don’t call me a fair weathered fan just yet. I would have watched those games if I could have but Mother’s Day celebrations, meetings, a broken water pipe resulting in a flooded basement and other things made sure watching those games wasn’t in the cards.

I’ve enjoyed plenty of Bucks losses, Packer playoff heartbreaks and promising Brewers campaigns being cut short, so I’ll take missing out on a series of some highs and more lows this time around.

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