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Streak Busters: The Story of the Milwaukee Bucks Unthinkable Victory over the 24-0 Golden State Warriors

By Ti Windisch

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The story of the Milwaukee Bucks beating the undefeated, defending champion Golden State Warriors.

There was magic in Milwaukee last night. The Golden State Warriors were in town. As you may have heard, they were 24-0 heading into the BMO Harris Bradley Center, surely expecting to make that 25-0 with a weak Milwaukee Bucks team awaiting them.

Sure, the Warriors were coming off of a double-overtime win over the Boston Celtics the night before. But the Bucks were on the second night of a back-to-back as well, and teams like Golden State don’t need excuses for anything.

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The Warriors are easily the best team in the NBA, and they’re working on placing themselves in the history books yet again this season. Besting the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers win streak of 33 would’ve been just another historic feat for these Warriors, but it’s been obvious they want it all season.

Golden State hasn’t been demolishing teams this year to prove themselves. They did that in the NBA Finals last season, bringing a title home for the first time in 40 years. No, this year is about proving everybody else in the NBA community. Proving them wrong, that is.

The Warriors have been called lucky more times than anyone cares to count, and they’re looking to make anyone who doubted them look downright silly. And they have, every single night.

Until last night. Last night, the Warriors looked weak. The Dubs had shown weakness a handful of times throughout the NBA season before they made it to Milwaukee, but no team had been able to truly capitalize on Golden State’s moments of weakness. Until the Bucks did.

Some people, like Marques Johnson, were positive the whole time. Most of the Bucks community was not (I should stress that that’s in regards to Bucks Twitter. The BMO was rocking all night–those people never seemed to have a doubt).

Warnings like the one above were everywhere on Twitter. Even though the Bucks shot out to a convincing early lead, cautious optimism was the prevailing feeling among Milwaukee’s faithful on Twitter.

At the half, the Bucks were still winning by a fair amount. At this point, the caution part was reaching all-time highs. The Bucks struggled in third quarters all season, and the Warriors are the Warriors. Fans were pleased with how the team had played, but still far from ready to watch the Bucks actually win. Winter had to come sometime, after all.

It seemed like Milwaukee’s hopes and dreams were ready to be crushed in the third quarter. The Warriors finally won a quarter, and went into the final period down by just three points. It was anybody’s game to take. The champs, or the downtrodden Bucks. Things were shaping up, either for disappointment or for history.

Early into the fourth quarter is when things went bonkers.

As it turns out, the disappointment would belong to the Warriors. The Bucks defense clamped down on Golden State early in the fourth, and some dynamic heroics headed by Michael Carter-Williams put the Bucks up 11 halfway through the quarter.

From there the Warriors fought meekly, but the Bucks were ready for their late-game attempts at heroics. Every punch Golden State threw, Milwaukee returned, twice as hard. With four minutes left, it seemed unbelievable but true–the Milwaukee Bucks were going to do it.

Greg Monroe was just as big as MCW was. His post play was automatic in the fourth quarter–Draymond Green, as great a defender as he is, could not stop Moose in the post. Every time it seemed as though the Warriors had a shot at making a run, Moose responded with a return basket.

The first three quarters took a long time to happen for Bucks fans. It was almost like watching a horror movie. The Bucks were the innocent teenagers, and the fans were just waiting to see the evil Warriors appear from behind a tree to slash em up.

Every time Stephen Curry took a crazy three, it seemed like the Golden State knife was getting closer and closer to connecting with the Bucks. But it never made it. Milwaukee escaped alive.

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If the first three quarters were a slasher flick, the fourth was a Rocky training sequence. The Bucks were making the leap, and they looked like they had one clear goal in mind. Nothing was stopping the Bucks from catching that chicken–or in this case, handing Golden State their first loss.

As slow as the first three quarters were, the final period happened in a flash. It was over. The Warriors were 24-1, the Bucks had just knocked out Apollo Creed, and it was time for Bucks fans to pass out, drunk on energy (and probably other things).

And that was it. Will the magic from that game stick around for the Milwaukee Bucks moving forward? There’s no way to tell until they take the floor again Tuesday night.

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But even if they fall flat for the rest of the season, nobody can take away the magic from that night from the Milwaukee Bucks. Savor this feeling, Milwaukee. Your Young Bucks have earned it for all of us.

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