How will the Milwaukee Bucks defend Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant?

The start of the playoff series between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets on Saturday at the Barclays Center in New York will finally satiate the anticipation of an Eastern Conference match long in the making — namely since Khris Middleton’s potential game-winning three-pointer rattled off the rim back on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

A Bucks sweep of a two-game mini-series at Fiserv Forum on May 2 and 4 by three and six points, respectively, only added to the hunger.