But Milwaukee holds on to tie the series at three.

I will tell you, I have a vivid memory.

The game you mentioned, game six, where he hit nine threes.

I was watching that game with my dad.

I've seen thousands of basketball games, you know.

I've hardly ever had this feeling when Ray would come off a screen or he'd get his feet set on the wing.

And as soon as he rose up to shoot it, it was almost like he cannot miss.

Dan Grunfeld, the son of Bucs general manager Ernie Grunfeld, watched Ray Allen's masterful performance in the Bradley Center with his father and still remembers how it felt to have seen it in person.

Allen Iverson, 26 points in the fourth quarter alone, 46 for the game as they cut a 33-point deficit to 10, but Milwaukee holds on to tie the series at three.

I will tell you, I have a vivid memory.

The, the game you mentioned, game six, where he hit nine threes, I was watching that game with my dad.

I've seen thousands of basketball games, you know? I've hardly ever had this feeling when Ray would come off a screen, or he'd get his feet set on the wing, and as soon as he rose up to shoot it, it was almost like he cannot miss.

[laughs] It's not like, "I hope he makes it." I was like, "He can't, he can't miss."

Dan Grunfeld, the son of Buck's General Manager Ernie Grunfeld, watched Ray Allen's masterful performance in the Bradley Center with his father, and still remembers how it felt to have seen it in person.

And he was just so automatic, so dialed in that for me as like a fan, as someone who really cared, I had that feeling where I was like, "Butter.

Money." Like, if Ray shoots it, like we're good.

But as Ernie's son, Dan Grunfeld explains, the move to Milwaukee was a type of homecoming for the Grunfeld family.

I was a freshman in high school, finishing my freshman year, and I had lived in northern New Jersey my whole life.

My dad had worked for the Knicks my whole life.

So, you know, it was hard.

Um, but it was nice to see kinda his vision come to fruition the way it did.

The team made the NBA finals, and he was hired by the Milwaukee Bucks shortly thereafter, which was amazing, right? My parents met in Milwaukee when my dad played for the Bucks.

My grandparents lived in Milwaukee.

To round out the roster, it was the addition of role players like Darvin Ham, Mark Pope, Lindsey Hunter, and Jason Caffey that gave the Bucks the defense, physicality, and experience they would need to become contenders.

To round out the roster, it was the addition of role players like Darvin Hamm, Mark Pope, Lindsey Hunter, and Jason Caffey that gave the Bucks the defense, physicality, and experience they would need to become contenders.

He has a great kind of understanding of the game, clearly like played it, just knows it inside and out from every angle.

And I think when he got to Milwaukee, he saw that they had a really, really strong foundation and a really strong base, right? With these incredible perimeter players.

So I think when he came to Milwaukee and they had these really dynamic backboard players, his instinct was, okay, listen, rebounding, defense, physicality, that's going to win you games and win you championships.

So when you talk about guys like Scott Williams or Jason Caffey or these really physical guys to complement with these dynamic wing players, that seems to be kind of how he approached the roster construction.

And it worked.

And listen, we can't forget you have a hard-nosed coach in George Carl, right? And George got the most out of those guys.

Dan Grunfeld, who was a student at Nicolet High School, could feel how the team's effort and selflessness had the whole city celebrating their success.