Okay, so this Collapse has a punchline, which is that the Milwaukee Bucks won it all in 2021. But that outcome only makes the era preceding it more compelling. The prior very-good Bucks team took the league by storm in 2001. They almost made it to the Finals … and then fell very hard very fast. The demolition of that “Big Three,” and the years of losing (but not rebuilding) that followed are worth exploring:

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