The Boston Celtics functionally handed the Milwaukee Bucks the conference’s top seed with their loss to the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night, but if either team felt tonight’s clash at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee has been made less meaningful as a result, it hasn’t shown in the play on the court. A fiery first quarter featured high-octane, back-and-forth scoring from the East’s top seeds, and though the Celtics accelerated ahead in the second, 41-21, over a Bucks team playing for the second time in two nights, it gave us a glimpse of what a playoff matchup between these two teams might look like.
Halftime Hot Takes: an Eastern Conference Finals preview?
