MILWAUKEE — Posting the NBA's best record once again couldn't help the Milwaukee Bucks win a conference title, let alone a league championship.
The top seed in the playoffs will spend the rest of the postseason wondering why it couldn't ever regain its pre-hiatus form in the Disney bubble.
Milwaukee was 53-12 when the coronavirus pandemic caused play to shut down for 4 ½ months. The Bucks went 8-10 after the season resumed in Florida, including a 4-1 loss in a best-of-7 Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Miami Heat.
They never seemed to adapt to playing without fans as well as other teams did.