CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – APRIL 22: Giannis Antetokounmpo #34 of the Milwaukee Bucks is defended by Nikola Vucevic #9 of the Chicago Bulls during the second quarter of Game Three of the Eastern Conference First Round Playoffs at the United Center on April 22, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
The Chicago Bulls are highly likely to lose to the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks in their first-round playoff series, but they have bagged themselves a whole host of new fans in the process.
From DeMar DeRozan shrugging off the label that he is a regular-season player in game two to go off for 41 points, to Alex Caruso being everything they could have hoped for and more, it has been great to see this still under strength Bulls team give it a real go. With Khris Middleton hobbled, the Bulls could yet make life more difficult for the Bucks before they ultimately advance.
The Chicago Bulls Game 2 heroics in Milwaukee were especially important for Nikola Vucevic, who, after all these years, finally had his deserved moment in the limelight.
If you didn’t know, that was only Vucevic’s seventh playoff game win ever. He is 31. Three of those wins came when he was a rookie with the Philadelphia 76ers, in a series where averaged 2.9 minutes per contest and a single point per game. In other words, those ones don’t count.
In the hearts of the Orlando Magic faithful, however, the next two certainly did. Wins over both the Bucks and Toronto Raptors as undermanned eighth seeds. Nikola Vucevic was the Magic’s best player in that Bucks series, and the Raptors games we will return to later. Nobody cared though because, well… Vucevic played for the Magic.
But having a great game for a storied franchise like the ChicagoBulls hits different, and it couldn’t have…
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