The NBA Draft is almost here. Free agency is up next. And then, in a slice of quasi-normalcy I’m very much looking forward to, Las Vegas Summer League is back after a one-year hiatus caused by the pandemic.
Yet still, amid all of that, my mind keeps going back to the day after the Milwaukee Bucks won their first title in a half-century. A quick moment to share — for cathartic reasons, really — that I’ll always remember fondly when looking back at the 2021 playoff path.
Championship nights always bleed into the morning after, and this one was no different. Writing in a hotel lobby with colleagues until 3 a.m., with the downtown celebration and, sadly, a nearby shooting also occupying our attention. Another round of conversations about how it all went down for a while longer after that (basically recapping and reliving Giannis Antetokounmpo’s greatness). Then, it’s off to bag-packing and bed.
But because I’d booked an afternoon flight, that meant I could join my colleague, Bucks beat writer Eric Nehm, and his good friend for a late-morning bite to eat — and drinks, apparently — at Uncle Wolfie’s Breakfast Tavern. The name of the restaurant basically says it all in terms of the vibe, but I still didn’t expect to be sitting in the front row for another round of celebration by the time we settled in.
