Miami HEAT at Milwaukee Bucks
Saturday, May 22nd @ 2:00PM
Round One, Game One
Location: Fiserv Forum - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
TV: Bally Sports Sun & ESPN
HEAT Live Pre-game: 1:30PM
Tipoff: 2:10PM
Radio: 790AM, WAQI 710AM (Espanol)
Uniform: Trophy Gold
Series Notes:
- The HEAT and Bucks met three times this regular season with Milwaukee winning the series, 2-1.
- The HEAT are 71-47 all-time versus the Bucks during the regular season, including 37-21 in home games and 34-26 in road games.
- Additionally, the teams enter this postseason having faced each other two times during the playoffs with Miami winning both of those series, first 4-0 in the 2013 First Round and 4-1 last season in the Eastern Conference SemiFinals.
What to watch for:
- Miami enters the 2021 Playoffs with an all-time 138-107 (.563) postseason record, the third-highest in NBA history, behind only the Los Angeles Lakers (.601) and Boston Celtics (.569).
- Jimmy Butler did not appear in any of the three regular season matchups against Milwaukee this season.
- The HEAT clinched the No. 6 seed, marking their 22nd playoff berth in franchise history. It also marks their 10th in 13 seasons under Head Coach Erik Spoelstra, only three teams (Boston-12, Portland-11 & San Antonio-11) have more over that span.
- Miami has currently won at least one postseason road game in 23 consecutive series, tying the longest such streak in NBA history.