[Amick] Monty Williams: "All I wanted to do was congratulate Giannis… I shut the door and I went right into him. He was sitting there with a cigar in his hands, soaking wet from — I guess — the champagne, and he had a bottle in his hand (laughs). So I’m thinking to myself, 'How cool is this, man?'"

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Two last ones for you, and thank you for doing this. The choice, post-Finals, to walk into the Bucks locker room…

(Laughs)

I don’t think we’ve seen that. I don’t remember it, and I thought it was cool.

(Laughs again)

Giannis talked about it afterward. Someone had shut the music down, so you could tell there was respect there and that they embraced you and your message landed. But was that completely off the cuff? What’s going through your mind there?

You know what man, I heard about what was made of it after the fact. And to be straight with you, it happened so quick. All I wanted to do was congratulate Giannis, because I came right out of a press conference and I shut the door and I went right into him. And he was sitting there with a cigar in his hands, soaking wet from — I guess — the champagne, and he had a bottle in his hand (laughs). So I’m thinking to myself, ‘How cool is this, man?’ (laughs). I come right out of my press conference, I’m emotional, and then I run right into him and I just wanted to be gracious and say ‘Congrats. You deserved it. You beat us.’ What I’ve learned over the course of my career is to try to handle defeat the right way, and maybe you get a chance, maybe you get a chance to handle the other side of it