Bucks first-round Eastern Conference playoff series will be relatively spread out as the teams won't play Game 2 until Tuesday and won't play Game 3 until Friday. After only releasing schedules for Game 1 of each series on Sunday night,

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, who knocked the Bucks out last year, enter as the higher seed and the favorite this year against their Central Division rival.