Milwaukee Bucks: Looking ahead to potentially momentous NBA Awards
By Adam McGee
With the NBA’s third annual end of season awards show set to take place on Monday night, the Milwaukee Bucks look set to have plenty to celebrate.
The 2019 NBA Awards will take place in Santa Monica, California on Monday night, and they may well double as something of a victory lap for the 60-win Milwaukee Bucks.
Hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, and televised live on TNT from 8pm CT, the NBA will honor its players, coaches and executives by handing out its prestigious end of season awards. To say the Bucks will feature prominently in proceedings would be an understatement.
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Since its inception, the Awards show has come in for warranted criticism for waiting so long to hand out regular season awards, and the potential lack of Toronto Raptors’ winners on Monday will only bring that to the wider attention once again.
An overhaul is almost certainly needed, whether that’s moving the awards up to take place before the start of the playoffs, or perhaps adding awards that recognize achievements from the playoffs too.
Either way, while the show itself may well be a source of ridicule for many fans around the NBA, the weight of the awards themselves has by no means lessened. Once a winner’s name is etched into the history books, nobody reflects decades later on how the timing of the award being announced was weird.
In that regard, a significant chapter in Bucks’ history is likely to be written with Monday’s winners and nominees in mind, so let’s take a closer look at how Milwaukee will factor into the show itself.