The Milwaukee Bucks were bailed out by several plays that went their way and one egregiously missed call down the stretch on Monday, and it was Damian Lillard's layup with 3.9 seconds remaining that gave them a 101-100 skin-of-their-teeth victory over the Houston Rockets.

Damian Lillard hit a driving layup with 3.9 seconds left to give the Milwaukee Bucks a 101-100 victory over Houston that snapped the Rockets’ five-game winning streak.

Damian Lillard scores with 3.9 seconds left as the Milwaukee Bucks complete a thrilling late comeback to beat the Houston Rockets 101-100 in the NBA.

On Monday evening, the Milwaukee Bucks hosted the Houston Rockets in Wisconsin. The Bucks won by a score of 101-100 to improve to 5-9 in their first 14 games.

The Bucks don’t get this win without a big game from Brook Lopez — 27 points and 10 rebounds — while Antetokounmpo scored 20 with 13 rebounds and Lillard had 18 points (but was 0-of-6 from 3). Houston was led by 26 from Fred VanVleet.

The Rockets took a 16-3 lead in the early going as the Bucks couldn't make a shot and kept turning the ball over, but Milwaukee stuck with it and eventually climbed back into the

The Rockets started out great. In fact they were burying Milwaukee. Burying them so much that two things happened, perhaps unrelated. The Rockets started getting called for a lot