For the second year in a row, the Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks are meeting in the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Pacers used their home-court advantage and took the first two games in the series in Indianapolis.

The Pacers had shown in the first two games that the Bucks couldn't keep up with them on offense, but that changed in Game 3. The Bucks played much better defense and held the Pacers to just 101, while it was them that had the offensive breakout, and made history doing so.