The Milwaukee Bucks (3 seeds) have drawn the Chicago Bulls (6 seeds) in round one of the NBA Playoffs after all of the buzzers rang, the jockeying was completed, and the tanking came to a halt.

Thus concludes the perplexing season of playoff seeding and tiebreakers.

Milwaukee had an opportunity to clinch the two seeds with a win on Sunday, but opted for rest after playing their starters on back-to-back nights on Thursday and Friday.

People will say you’re avoiding the Nets. Remind them that if the Bucks had played their starters today instead of resting them on Friday, we’d most likely never have heard that narrative. Regardless, the Bucks have left their fate in the hands of the Celtics (who also rested their players last week vs. Milwaukee) and who defeated Memphis to place Milwaukee in third place.

They face a Chicago Bulls team that has limped to the finish line, going 3-7 in their last ten games before the season finale against the Wolves.

The Bucks defeated Chicago all four times in the regular season, and this will be the first playoff match between the division rivals since Chicago won the “tackling Mike Dunleavy” series 4-2 in 2015.

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