July 11th, 2021. That’s the day when Pat Connaughton cemented his place in Milwaukee Bucks history and knocked down a shot that will be etched into my brain forever.
Take a moment and think back to Game 3 of the 2021 Finals. The Bucks were back in Milwaukee after dropping two games in Phoenix, facing the crunch of a potential 0-3 deficit. It was perhaps the single biggest game the team had ever played up to that point. Rally towels inscribed with the slogan “History in the Making” lined every seat in Fiserv Forum. Tens of thousands of fans converged on the stadium that night, hoping to witness that history, and I was one of them.