The Milwaukee Bucks are reigning NBA champions and with the league pushing for a return to normalcy, the offseason is startlingly short and the regular season is just around the corner. Furthermore, the 2021-22 season brings a return to the full 82-game schedule, meaning that there’s even more minutes and more games that the Bucks will need to suit up for.
The lesson the Bucks have learned the hard way is that the regular season, to a certain extent, doesn’t matter when you’re competing. The most important objective for contenders is to stay healthy, win enough to maintain a high-enough seed (the higher, the better), and prepare yourselves for the playoffs.