NBA Finals 2021: Milwaukee Bucks beat Phoenix Suns to win first title for 50 years.
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 points as the Milwaukee Bucks claimed their first NBA title for 50 years with a 105-98 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
The Bucks' 4-2 series win was sealed in front of a 17,000 crowd as 65,000 celebrated outside the Fiserv Forum.
Its Time for the Milwaukee Bucks to announce themselves as champions for the second time in their history and first since 1971.
2021 NBA Finals MVP Ladder: Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 points, Best stats.
1 -- Bucks are only the fifth team to win the best-of-seven finals series after losing their first two matches.
2 -- The Suns were seeking a first NBA crown in their 53-year history, having also lost NBA Finals series in 1976 and 1993.
3 -- However, they were unable to contain Antetokounmpo, who became only the seventh player to register 50 points in a Finals game.
5 -- Giannis also became the first player ever to record 50 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks in a playoff game.
6 -- It was also the third game in the series in which the 26-year-old has managed at least 40 points and 10 rebounds.
7 -- Antetokounmpo matches the feat of Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon by collecting a regular season MVP, NBA Finals MVP and NBA defensive player of the year awards.
8 -- Budenholzer was only four years old when NBA legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson led the Bucks to their only previous NBA tile in 1971, when some of the current players' parents had not been born.
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