History says the Miami Heat-Milwaukee Bucks Eastern Conference semifinal series is over.
History says the fifth-seeded Heat, who hold a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series entering Sunday afternoon's Game 4 near Orlando, will defeat the top-seeded Bucks. No NBA team ever has come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a series in 139 attempts.
Miami took a 3-0 series lead by outscoring Milwaukee, 40-13, in the fourth quarter of Friday's Game 3. It was the biggest fourth-quarter differential in playoff history.
The Bucks, who had the NBA's best regular-season record and have one of the league's top players in forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, the defending MVP and 2019-20 Defensive Player of the Year, are teetering on the brink of an embarrassing, humiliating and frustrating postseason showing.