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There haven’t been many moments in this year’s NBA Playoffs better than the exchange between Giannis Antetokounmpo and Al Horford after they traded dunks on each another in Game 4 of the Boston Celtics-Milwaukee Bucks series on Monday.
After Antetokounmpo rose up to throw one down on Horford in the third quarter and followed the slam with a vicious ice grill, Horford nodded in acknowledgment of the perceived disrespect, mentally storing the moment away for just the right time. And sure enough, when he got his opportunity in the fourth, the Celtics big man returned the favor with a giant dunk on Giannis punctuated by a display of emotion we rarely see from Horford.
