The visiting locker room at Scotiabank Arena doesn’t have a white board in it. Or at least, not one everyone in the locker room can see, so Giannis Antetokounmpo had to improvise.



He found a marker and an 8×11 sheet of paper and wrote “6” on it. Then, he taped it up on a wall in the Bucks’ locker room. And there it was for everyone to see after the team’s Game 3 double-overtime loss to the Raptors.



It was part of a new tradition Antetokounmpo and Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer started this postseason. The “6” was the number of wins the Bucks needed to finish the season as NBA champions.



In the past, the Bucks didn’t really look that far ahead. They were just worried about getting out of a first-round series. This season, Budenholzer and Antetokounmpo wanted to make sure the team understood they were focused on a much larger prize than just a playoff series win. So, after every game, Antetokounmpo was in...