The headline stories following the Milwaukee Bucks after winning the NBA Finals largely circulate around the play of Giannis Antetokounmpo and rightfully so. The two-time MVP posted a 50 points, 5 block, 14 rebound performance in the Game 6, championship clinching win over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday.
However, there are always other stories that emerge and come to the light once a crown is put on the winner. And for this Bucks team, P.J. Tucker just completed something pretty unbelievable and hilarious that he may not have even noticed.
Never forget PJ Tucker defeated every starter from the 2018 WCF Rockets team in the playoffs pic.twitter.com/WQkUdK5AQ5
— Stokastic (@Stokastic_Com) July 21, 2021
Tucker, who is now with the Bucks, was a starter on the Houston Rockets 2018 team that reached the Western Conference Finals. And this year, he took out each and every one of the other four starters from that Rockets team en route to winning the title with Milwaukee this year.
In round one, the Bucks took out the Miami Heat, who just so happen to have Tucker's former teammate, Trevor Ariza on the squad. In round two, James Harden and the Brooklyn Nets fell to Tucker in a thrilling seven game series.
The Eastern Conference Finals pitted the Atlanta Hawks against the Bucks. That meant Tucker against his former teammate, Clint Capela. And to put the cherry on top, it was the Rockets' starting point guard, Chris Paul who got all the way to the finals this year with the Suns before the Bucks and Tucker got rid of them in six games.
Those Rockets teams seem like they were decades ago yet it was just in 2018. And now, P.J. Tucker and his Bucks are the last ones standing.
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