Mike Pence can still do the right thing
Although the Bucks are just two years removed from a championship and have won a league-best 69 percent of their games over the last five seasons, they’ve always nursed one secret flaw: they weren’t that great. If last year’s epic first round crap-out to the Heat didn’t quite signify the end times, it signified the end of good times. Years of rote, heliocentric ball had rendered them a, their inner emptiness hidden beneath puffs of hot air.
As such, the Bucks traded away Holiday and broke up a 58-win team because they were desperate in ways that Miami was not and never will be. Despite failing to land Lillard, the Heat are fine because there will always be another Lillard; the Bucks pulled the trigger because there will never be another Antetokounmpo. The Heat felt like they deserved Lillard; the Bucks acted like they needed him.