April 17, 2025 • 19 mins
We dive into the most pressured NBA playoff entities of 2024, ranking players and teams based on expectations, past performance, and future implications for their legacies.
• Honorable mentions include the Houston Rockets (young team exceeding expectations), Miami Heat (post-Jimmy Butler questions), Austin Reaves (overhyped by fans), and former champions Jalen Brown and Nikola Jokić
• The Knicks rank 8th due to high expectations despite Brunson's injury
• Giannis and Dame face pressure to succeed or risk Giannis potentially leaving for another team
• Jimmy Butler needs to prove he was worth trading for after his Miami Heat drama
• Jason Tatum must win Finals MVP if Boston wins again to avoid being permanently second to Jaylen Brown
• Donovan Mitchell faces questions about being a true #1 option on a championship team
• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander risks Joel Embiid comparisons if his regular season success doesn't translate to playoffs
• Ja Morant's off-court antics and celebrations create extra pressure to perform
• LeBron, Steph, and KD tie for most pressured due to their ongoing chase of Jordan's legacy
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Today we're going to talk aboutthe NBA players or, I guess,
entities, whichever one you wantto classify it as most
pressured in the NBA playoffs.
All right, but before we talkabout them, please make sure you
hit that like and subscribebutton.
Comment, tell anyone who'sanyone about the show, try and
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But like I said, ladies andgentlemen, we're going to talk
about the NBA's most pressuredplayers, or at least entities,
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however you want to classify,and again, we're talking about,
for the playoffs, specifically2025.
So, with that being said, let'sgo ahead and mention my
honorable mentions.
Right, and for full disclosure,there are 16 NBA playoffs teams
.
So I got 16 entities to talkabout, but we're going to talk
about them kind of quickly, notgoing to him at all.
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So, with that being said, let'sbring up the honorable mentions
and with that, let's start itoff with the Houston Rockets.
Ladies and gentlemen, now theHouston Rockets, we got to talk
about them because of theirWestern seeding, their top three
seed in the Western Conference.
That's a tough task right there.
That's pretty stout.
And keep in mind, this WesternRocket squad ain't bad,
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especially considering thatthey're young and that's the
actual biggest gripe about them.
They're young, they'reinexperienced, so there's a
little bit of pressure on them.
But also because they're young,we extend a little grace.
We're not expecting them to becontenders right now, just a
little pressure.
But at number eight, god putthem there.
Well, these numbers 16, eighthonorable mention, y'all know
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the vibes.
But we're going to move on nowto the number 17 honorable
mention, which is the Miami Heatand the reason why I have him
here, ladies and gentlemen JimmyButler, the trade.
I understand why we trade Jimmy.
I genuinely, wholeheartedly do.
But the problem is, when youtrade Jimmy Butler now the eyes
are on you.
Ok, what are we going to do?
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Who are we going to be the guy?
And I have some heat fans thathave some question marks.
So again, the Jimmy trade didput more pressure on this heat
team.
Are you all still relevant?
Relevant end of day?
We'll find out.
But we'll move on down to thenumber six honorable mention,
which is Austin Reeves.
Hear me out, ladies andgentlemen, this is kind of a
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troll.
But I also blame his stands aswell, because Austin Reeves'
stands act like he's the secondcoming of a Larry Bird, like
they act like he the nextsuperstar and that's cool, buddy
, cool, buddy Cool.
But now there's pressure onAustin Reed and keep in mind, if
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it wasn't for his stance, Iwouldn't put him up here.
But if he plays similarly tohow D'Lo played, I remember how
people went at D'Lo, so you gotto go at Austin Reeves the same
way and keep in mind, it wasonly one team that D'Lo played
bad against.
So if Austin Reeves had a badseries, you kind of got to talk
about him in a similar breath.
So there's going to be a littlepressure on Austin Reeves but,
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again, mainly put him up herebecause of his stance.
It is somewhat of a troll.
So let's move on up to the nextplayer, which is jalen brown,
someone who should be up herehonorable mention.
Reason why he's up here finalsmvp.
He's the reigning finals mvp.
I'm not putting all thepressure on him, but you still
got to perform, you still got toexecute.
You can't slack off really.
So again, jalen brown.
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If he doesn't win achampionship this year, we can't
say he's, but there's a littlebit of pressure on him to make
sure he performs at all times,at least most times.
But again, finals MVP champion,he's earned some grace.
Similarly to the next person,which number four for me, nikola
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Jokic Chip.
Relevancy is the real reasonwhy the pressure is on him.
And if we look at someone likea Steph Curry Steph won in 2022
and then hasn't won since 2024,I started to basically hear
people saying he fell off Right.
Well, if Jokic don't win thisyear, can we say the same thing
about Jokic too, even thoughhe's been dominating?
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Steph was hooping too now.
So I'm looking to see what thatconversation is for yoki, but
pressure not that much because,again, finals mvp champion,
relatively recent, just so.
Let's move on up to the nextteam, the next person, I think
edward's at number three, ladiesand gentlemen, now, right now,
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he's in that grace phase wherehe's still young and we kind of
give him grace because he's notwinning a championship, but
eventually we all want to expectyou to start winning a
championship.
So again, Anthony Edwards,right now, don't expect him to
win.
If he does win, that's cool,but I wouldn't expect him to win
a championship at a certainpoint in time.
They're still trying to buildup his team around him.
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It's cool.
He's in that great space, likeI said.
So no pressure for realhonorable mention, but he will
be coming up pretty soon, if I'mbe honest with you.
Maybe two more seasons I'd sayuh.
But let's move on up now tonumber two, luca.
I'm curious if luca didn't gettraded, where I would have put
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him.
But because he just got traded,I can't say he has the most
pressure out of everybody in theNBA Because, again, he just got
traded.
Our team is not built aroundhim completely.
We still got to figure out thepieces, like I said earlier.
So again, luca at number two,for me not putting that much
pressure on him, but there isstill some pressure because
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you're on the leg, becauseyou're playing with Braun.
You did just get to the finalswith perceived a worse team
roster, a lot of people mightsay.
Some might try to argue theMavs were better.
But again, because you're on ateam with Braun, it's going to
be a little pressure.
So I'm not putting all thepressure on Luka just yet
Starting next year, he probablywill be in my top eight Right
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now.
Honorable mention and number onefor honorable mention.
This one was terrible, but itwas Philly and I would put them
higher.
But they out the damn playoffs,which is piss poor.
But again, injuries happen.
So I understand that.
Mb, paul George, I get youtommy's max even had a little
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injury.
They got dismantled, even moreso than their stars as well.
To jerry jerry mccain gotinjured, bro, like come on now,
like everybody got injured.
So I'm gonna give a littlegrace, just a little grace.
But there is pressure,especially this team comes back
next year.
There's definite pressure.
They could be the mostpressured entity in the NBA.
But again, ladies and gentlemen,these are my top eight
honorable mentions Philly, luka,anthony Edwards, nicola Yoki,
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jalen Brown, austin Reeves,miami Heat Houston Rock.
Maybe I should put AustinReeves down to number eight.
Reeves the Miami Heat HoustonRock.
Maybe I should put AustinReeves down at number eight.
I don't know, the stands reallymatter that much.
I promise you, they're reallythat annoying and you know what
you might not like this.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but again, ladies and
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gentlemen, those are myhonorable mentions.
So let's go ahead and talkabout the top eight officially.
I think it might be a good one.
So we have here the Knicks atnumber eight.
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Let's talk about it, shall we?
Because y'all could bewondering why the Knicks are
here.
You got Brunson's injury plusthe organization.
They've been trying to hype upthis team for the longest right.
There were expectations of themgetting to the finals.
So pressure on this Knicks team.
You got to put it up there andI would throw them higher.
I'm not going to lie to you,but they have a lot of pieces up
there.
This is a star-studded team.
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At least on paper.
It should be a star-studdedteam.
There's a couple of teams upthere, though A.
There's a couple teams up there, though other couple situations
that matter a little bit more.
And that's kind of shockingbecause, again, a lot of talk
was about these knicks thisoffseason.
So it's very shocking, veryshocking.
But they trying to get thischampionship.
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That's what they trying to do.
I don't know if they're gonnaget, so expect to hear some
gripes during this whole season.
But let's go ahead and move onup to the next team.
I'm sure y'all want to know whoI'm talking about next, and
that's Dame and Giannis.
Dame and Giannis.
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And the reason why I have Damehere is because of the Damian
Lillard acquisition.
Remember, he wanted out ofPortland.
Everybody was giving him gracebecause he was still in Portland
trying to get it out the mud.
Right, you pair with Giannis.
I understand.
You got the calf issue, theblood clot, even.
Still there's pressure on theBucs getting somewhat decently
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far in the playoffs because yougot to think about yannis
leaving.
He wants one of these.
He's had all of these, like,come on now.
He's had the championship rings, he's had the mvps, all that
stuff.
Bro, like he is star studdedout here.
Will he get that with the buckssos?
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So again, that Damian Lillardacquisition, that was the
expectation.
So if we can't get that, that'stough because Giannis could
leave, potentially going toMount Lakers and forming the
most international or the bestinternational duo in NBA history
with Luka.
That could happen.
Just saying so again, ladiesand gentlemen, giannis and Dane,
not the bucks, yannis and danethat they could shake up some
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stuff.
But let's move on up to numbersix, someone who is kind of
familiar with with yannis anddame, actually jimmy butler,
that's right.
He's with some boys that havegotten this hardware.
You know, I'm saying he,they've had all of these.
I gotta throw jimmy at numbersix because, hey, when you look
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at jimmy, the season antics thathe had, you gotta prove that
you trade worthy and tradeworthy for the.
For the warriors mean, hey, youwinning championships or at
least getting to the finals orlooking competitive, and jimmy
butler with steph going upagainst the celtics, that's good
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entertainment right there.
So again, ladies and gentlemen,jimmy butler does have some
pressure on him because of theantics that he had with the,
with the miami heat, and nowyou're on the warriors just
saying you got to make it work,you got to make it work, you got
to make it work, brother.
Now let's go ahead and talkabout my top five, because my
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top five most pressured, theyare really trying to get this
championship here and they got alot of eyes on them, ladies and
gentlemen.
So I got to make sure I talkabout these five players.
All right, number five at JasonTatum.
I'm sure y'all knew JT had tobe in the top five because,
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again, jalen Brown already wonthe finals MVP.
So if they win again and JTdon't win, you have to talk
about the Celtics.
Stars as Jalen Brown number one.
Stars as Jalen Brown, numberone, jason Tatum, number two.
And keep in mind, jt got a ringBoom.
He come from good stock.
He got a championship.
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All he missing is the finalsMVP.
That's it.
Or an MVP too, I guess a leagueMVP, but that's another
discussion for another day.
But most pressure for playoffs.
Jt at number five.
You got to say that His team'ssolid.
He got to hoop too.
That's the problem, bro.
He got to hoop his tail off.
Woo.
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Best of luck to you, champ,best of luck to you.
But that's what pressurebreathes.
Anyway, number four DonovanMitchell.
Here's the problem.
All right, I don't necessarilybelieve in Donovan Mitchell as
your one option on achampionship team.
I think it's a little shaky ifyou go, if you bank it on him
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being the one option.
Right, yes, the Cavs have beenplaying well.
They look nice.
I hear you.
People said the same thingabout Utah.
Oh well, this Cavs team isbetter than Utah.
I hear you.
I got to see it to believe it,man.
So again, there's pressure onDonovan Mitchell, because last
year I was hearing well, theCavs team didn't do well.
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They have enough talent on thissquad.
They have enough depth on thissquad to make it so that it's
now on Donovan Mitchell.
And if he doesn't, I'm going tobe curious what a lot of people
that I know say about DonovanMitchell.
I'm going to be curious what alot of people, a lot of fans,
say about Donovan Mitchell.
Are y'all finally on mywavelength with saying Donovan
Mitchell maybe needs to be asecond option on a championship
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team?
Just saying, but again, maybehe can prove me wrong.
But let's see what happens.
Until then, let's move on up tothe third most pressured player,
and that is Shea Gildress,alexander, ladies and gentlemen.
Listen, he's at the MVP seasonyet again.
His team is number one in theWest yet again.
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So if you don't go far in theplayoffs yet again, we're going
to be talking about you a littlebit differently going into the
future.
Now.
You might have another MVPseason next season, right, and
you could very well win it.
Look at Joel Embiid, forexample.
The fear is, if you don't startwinning further in the playoffs
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, people will probably starttrying to compare you to Joel
Embiid, which is tough.
There are some similarities,there are some differences
between your games, but there'spressure on Shea Gildress,
alexander, ladies and gentlemen,this season.
So, again, if they don't go far.
Look for maybe one more seasonuntil people start falling off
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the Shea Gildress Alexanderbandwagon.
Maybe I'm being a little tooearly, a little too premature,
but it's him being the guy thatcan start to waver as early as
after next season.
But let's see what happensthough.
Let's see what happens Becausewe got to talk about another
player number two on my list and, ladies and gentlemen, that's
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John Moran, keep in mind.
All right, I don't expectMemphis to be a contender, right
, like they probably will loseto the Warriors If they don't,
cool, but like I'd be a littlesurprised if they beat the
Warriors.
But here's the thing, becauseJohn's doing all the guns and
all that stuff and the right youknow what I'm saying.
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Like I hear you, they're coolsellies.
They're cool sellies, thegrenade one.
That one's cool Problem is theantics that we had just last
season would prevent you fromdoing that.
If we're talking about amarketing purpose and again,
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remember the NBA is a business,you got to remember that.
So, if we need you to stopdoing certain stuff because you
put the spotlight on yourself,champ, and you're now saying,
nah, I'm going to double downand do more sellies, all right,
cool.
That means you got to dominate,that means your team got to
beat the Warriors, because if,because, if not, brother, you're
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not going to be as relevant aspeople as you're trying to make
yourself the scene.
I mean good talent, but if yourteam don't win, you're going to
be viewed as tradable realquick and I already said you
probably could be traded.
Keep it stacked with you, butit'd be tough to trade you to a
similarly design on it'ssimilarly designed.
You want to keep them, but atthe same time, I understand
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you're trading them, but again,there's pressure on john morant,
ladies and gentlemen.
So I'm paying very closeattention to how john morant
performs, because you got a lotof pressure on you this playoffs
, but the most pressured playersor entities, however you want
to classify for me, ladies andgentlemen, number one and it's a
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three-way tie.
And it's disgusting too,because one of these boys ain't
even in the playoffs, but it'ssteph braun and kevin and kevin
durant ad, you know I'm sayinglike you might be wondering why
in the world is ke Durant?
Kevin Durant is not anywhereclose to a championship this
season, so why is he on thislist?
Well, him, braun and Stephright now are technically the
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closest things to chasing MJ'slegacy that we have in today's
game.
So because of that, those threeare on this list, keep in mind.
Let's say I don't expect thisto happen.
But let's say Kevin Durantrattles off a three-peat right
quick.
Now we're talking about fiverings, two losses, and that's
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all right.
That changes a lot, right there.
So again, technically I'm goingto keep him up there, but y'all
see, he at the end it's Stephand Braun, and Steph and Braun
ain't in no specific clean.
I'll keep him up there, buty'all see, he at the end it's
steph and braun, and steph andbraun ain't in no specific order
.
I just typed them in there assuch.
But they got pressure againbecause we're chasing braun,
because we're chasing jordan.
Imagine if we can't win,imagine if steph gets out in the
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play, and that's going to betough on the legacy.
Because, again, you justacquired jimmy.
Y'all got a good squad, shouldbe able to win.
Hell, the, the grizzlies justfired their coach.
How can you not win?
Y'all have more cohesion.
Y'all been playing betterrecently.
I expect y'all to win.
And then, when braun and yougot luca, austin reeves has been
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snapping.
Like we got a squad right, likewe have a contending squad.
Both teams are contenders.
That should breed some pressure, especially if we're champions.
If there was champion, if therea squad right Like we have a
contending squad Both teams arecontenders that should breed
some pressure, especially ifwe're champions.
If there was pressure when KobeBryant was on the Lakers in
2010 and 09 and 08, how come wecan't have pressure on these
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boys now?
Let's stop being soft, ladiesand gentlemen.
Let's put these boys right hereas number one for pressure.
When they retire, cool, we canmove them off the list, but
until then they got the mostpressure they do.
If they win another one, maybewe can drop them down again,
because y'all saw how I treatedJokic and Jalen Brown.
Hell, jt ain't ahead of DonovanMitchell and Shea and John
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Moran.
So again, can't be too too softwith these boys, can't be?
We talking about championships,not the regular season, not the
regular season.
We talking about championships.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, y'all heard the listing for
the most pressure.
Y'all heard the most listing,or y'all heard the listing for
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the most pressure players orentities in the NBA for the
playoffs.
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Today we're going to talk aboutthe NBA players or, I guess,
entities, whichever one you wantto classify it as most
pressured in the NBA playoffs.
All right, but before we talkabout them, please make sure you
hit that like and subscribebutton.
Comment, tell anyone who'sanyone about the show, try and
get the ratings up a little bit.
You know just a little bit.
But like I said, ladies andgentlemen, we're going to talk
about the NBA's most pressuredplayers, or at least entities,
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however you want to classify,and again, we're talking about,
for the playoffs, specifically2025.
So, with that being said, let'sgo ahead and mention my
honorable mentions.
Right, and for full disclosure,there are 16 NBA playoffs teams
.
So I got 16 entities to talkabout, but we're going to talk
about them kind of quickly, notgoing to him at all.
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So, with that being said, let'sbring up the honorable mentions
and with that, let's start itoff with the Houston Rockets.
Ladies and gentlemen, now theHouston Rockets, we got to talk
about them because of theirWestern seeding, their top three
seed in the Western Conference.
That's a tough task right there.
That's pretty stout.
And keep in mind, this WesternRocket squad ain't bad,
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especially considering thatthey're young and that's the
actual biggest gripe about them.
They're young, they'reinexperienced, so there's a
little bit of pressure on them.
But also because they're young,we extend a little grace.
We're not expecting them to becontenders right now, just a
little pressure.
But at number eight, god putthem there.
Well, these numbers 16, eighthonorable mention, y'all know
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the vibes.
But we're going to move on nowto the number 17 honorable
mention, which is the Miami Heatand the reason why I have him
here, ladies and gentlemen JimmyButler, the trade.
I understand why we trade Jimmy.
I genuinely, wholeheartedly do.
But the problem is, when youtrade Jimmy Butler now the eyes
are on you.
Ok, what are we going to do?
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Who are we going to be the guy?
And I have some heat fans thathave some question marks.
So again, the Jimmy trade didput more pressure on this heat
team.
Are you all still relevant?
Relevant end of day?
We'll find out.
But we'll move on down to thenumber six honorable mention,
which is Austin Reeves.
Hear me out, ladies andgentlemen, this is kind of a
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troll.
But I also blame his stands aswell, because Austin Reeves'
stands act like he's the secondcoming of a Larry Bird, like
they act like he the nextsuperstar and that's cool, buddy
, cool, buddy Cool.
But now there's pressure onAustin Reed and keep in mind, if
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it wasn't for his stance, Iwouldn't put him up here.
But if he plays similarly tohow D'Lo played, I remember how
people went at D'Lo, so you gotto go at Austin Reeves the same
way and keep in mind, it wasonly one team that D'Lo played
bad against.
So if Austin Reeves had a badseries, you kind of got to talk
about him in a similar breath.
So there's going to be a littlepressure on Austin Reeves but,
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again, mainly put him up herebecause of his stance.
It is somewhat of a troll.
So let's move on up to the nextplayer, which is jalen brown,
someone who should be up herehonorable mention.
Reason why he's up here finalsmvp.
He's the reigning finals mvp.
I'm not putting all thepressure on him, but you still
got to perform, you still got toexecute.
You can't slack off really.
So again, jalen brown.
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If he doesn't win achampionship this year, we can't
say he's, but there's a littlebit of pressure on him to make
sure he performs at all times,at least most times.
But again, finals MVP champion,he's earned some grace.
Similarly to the next person,which number four for me, nikola
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Jokic Chip.
Relevancy is the real reasonwhy the pressure is on him.
And if we look at someone likea Steph Curry Steph won in 2022
and then hasn't won since 2024,I started to basically hear
people saying he fell off Right.
Well, if Jokic don't win thisyear, can we say the same thing
about Jokic too, even thoughhe's been dominating?
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Steph was hooping too now.
So I'm looking to see what thatconversation is for yoki, but
pressure not that much because,again, finals mvp champion,
relatively recent, just so.
Let's move on up to the nextteam, the next person, I think
edward's at number three, ladiesand gentlemen, now, right now,
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he's in that grace phase wherehe's still young and we kind of
give him grace because he's notwinning a championship, but
eventually we all want to expectyou to start winning a
championship.
So again, Anthony Edwards,right now, don't expect him to
win.
If he does win, that's cool,but I wouldn't expect him to win
a championship at a certainpoint in time.
They're still trying to buildup his team around him.
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It's cool.
He's in that great space, likeI said.
So no pressure for realhonorable mention, but he will
be coming up pretty soon, if I'mbe honest with you.
Maybe two more seasons I'd sayuh.
But let's move on up now tonumber two, luca.
I'm curious if luca didn't gettraded, where I would have put
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him.
But because he just got traded,I can't say he has the most
pressure out of everybody in theNBA Because, again, he just got
traded.
Our team is not built aroundhim completely.
We still got to figure out thepieces, like I said earlier.
So again, luca at number two,for me not putting that much
pressure on him, but there isstill some pressure because
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you're on the leg, becauseyou're playing with Braun.
You did just get to the finalswith perceived a worse team
roster, a lot of people mightsay.
Some might try to argue theMavs were better.
But again, because you're on ateam with Braun, it's going to
be a little pressure.
So I'm not putting all thepressure on Luka just yet
Starting next year, he probablywill be in my top eight Right
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now.
Honorable mention and number onefor honorable mention.
This one was terrible, but itwas Philly and I would put them
higher.
But they out the damn playoffs,which is piss poor.
But again, injuries happen.
So I understand that.
Mb, paul George, I get youtommy's max even had a little
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injury.
They got dismantled, even moreso than their stars as well.
To jerry jerry mccain gotinjured, bro, like come on now,
like everybody got injured.
So I'm gonna give a littlegrace, just a little grace.
But there is pressure,especially this team comes back
next year.
There's definite pressure.
They could be the mostpressured entity in the NBA.
But again, ladies and gentlemen,these are my top eight
honorable mentions Philly, luka,anthony Edwards, nicola Yoki,
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jalen Brown, austin Reeves,miami Heat Houston Rock.
Maybe I should put AustinReeves down to number eight.
Reeves the Miami Heat HoustonRock.
Maybe I should put AustinReeves down at number eight.
I don't know, the stands reallymatter that much.
I promise you, they're reallythat annoying and you know what
you might not like this.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but again, ladies and
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gentlemen, those are myhonorable mentions.
So let's go ahead and talkabout the top eight officially.
I think it might be a good one.
So we have here the Knicks atnumber eight.
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Let's talk about it, shall we?
Because y'all could bewondering why the Knicks are
here.
You got Brunson's injury plusthe organization.
They've been trying to hype upthis team for the longest right.
There were expectations of themgetting to the finals.
So pressure on this Knicks team.
You got to put it up there andI would throw them higher.
I'm not going to lie to you,but they have a lot of pieces up
there.
This is a star-studded team.
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At least on paper.
It should be a star-studdedteam.
There's a couple of teams upthere, though A.
There's a couple teams up there, though other couple situations
that matter a little bit more.
And that's kind of shockingbecause, again, a lot of talk
was about these knicks thisoffseason.
So it's very shocking, veryshocking.
But they trying to get thischampionship.
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That's what they trying to do.
I don't know if they're gonnaget, so expect to hear some
gripes during this whole season.
But let's go ahead and move onup to the next team.
I'm sure y'all want to know whoI'm talking about next, and
that's Dame and Giannis.
Dame and Giannis.
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And the reason why I have Damehere is because of the Damian
Lillard acquisition.
Remember, he wanted out ofPortland.
Everybody was giving him gracebecause he was still in Portland
trying to get it out the mud.
Right, you pair with Giannis.
I understand.
You got the calf issue, theblood clot, even.
Still there's pressure on theBucs getting somewhat decently
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far in the playoffs because yougot to think about yannis
leaving.
He wants one of these.
He's had all of these, like,come on now.
He's had the championship rings, he's had the mvps, all that
stuff.
Bro, like he is star studdedout here.
Will he get that with the buckssos?
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So again, that Damian Lillardacquisition, that was the
expectation.
So if we can't get that, that'stough because Giannis could
leave, potentially going toMount Lakers and forming the
most international or the bestinternational duo in NBA history
with Luka.
That could happen.
Just saying so again, ladiesand gentlemen, giannis and Dane,
not the bucks, yannis and danethat they could shake up some
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stuff.
But let's move on up to numbersix, someone who is kind of
familiar with with yannis anddame, actually jimmy butler,
that's right.
He's with some boys that havegotten this hardware.
You know, I'm saying he,they've had all of these.
I gotta throw jimmy at numbersix because, hey, when you look
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at jimmy, the season antics thathe had, you gotta prove that
you trade worthy and tradeworthy for the.
For the warriors mean, hey, youwinning championships or at
least getting to the finals orlooking competitive, and jimmy
butler with steph going upagainst the celtics, that's good
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entertainment right there.
So again, ladies and gentlemen,jimmy butler does have some
pressure on him because of theantics that he had with the,
with the miami heat, and nowyou're on the warriors just
saying you got to make it work,you got to make it work, you got
to make it work, brother.
Now let's go ahead and talkabout my top five, because my
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top five most pressured, theyare really trying to get this
championship here and they got alot of eyes on them, ladies and
gentlemen.
So I got to make sure I talkabout these five players.
All right, number five at JasonTatum.
I'm sure y'all knew JT had tobe in the top five because,
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again, jalen Brown already wonthe finals MVP.
So if they win again and JTdon't win, you have to talk
about the Celtics.
Stars as Jalen Brown number one.
Stars as Jalen Brown, numberone, jason Tatum, number two.
And keep in mind, jt got a ringBoom.
He come from good stock.
He got a championship.
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All he missing is the finalsMVP.
That's it.
Or an MVP too, I guess a leagueMVP, but that's another
discussion for another day.
But most pressure for playoffs.
Jt at number five.
You got to say that His team'ssolid.
He got to hoop too.
That's the problem, bro.
He got to hoop his tail off.
Woo.
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Best of luck to you, champ,best of luck to you.
But that's what pressurebreathes.
Anyway, number four DonovanMitchell.
Here's the problem.
All right, I don't necessarilybelieve in Donovan Mitchell as
your one option on achampionship team.
I think it's a little shaky ifyou go, if you bank it on him
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being the one option.
Right, yes, the Cavs have beenplaying well.
They look nice.
I hear you.
People said the same thingabout Utah.
Oh well, this Cavs team isbetter than Utah.
I hear you.
I got to see it to believe it,man.
So again, there's pressure onDonovan Mitchell, because last
year I was hearing well, theCavs team didn't do well.
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They have enough talent on thissquad.
They have enough depth on thissquad to make it so that it's
now on Donovan Mitchell.
And if he doesn't, I'm going tobe curious what a lot of people
that I know say about DonovanMitchell.
I'm going to be curious what alot of people, a lot of fans,
say about Donovan Mitchell.
Are y'all finally on mywavelength with saying Donovan
Mitchell maybe needs to be asecond option on a championship
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team?
Just saying, but again, maybehe can prove me wrong.
But let's see what happens.
Until then, let's move on up tothe third most pressured player,
and that is Shea Gildress,alexander, ladies and gentlemen.
Listen, he's at the MVP seasonyet again.
His team is number one in theWest yet again.
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So if you don't go far in theplayoffs yet again, we're going
to be talking about you a littlebit differently going into the
future.
Now.
You might have another MVPseason next season, right, and
you could very well win it.
Look at Joel Embiid, forexample.
The fear is, if you don't startwinning further in the playoffs
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, people will probably starttrying to compare you to Joel
Embiid, which is tough.
There are some similarities,there are some differences
between your games, but there'spressure on Shea Gildress,
alexander, ladies and gentlemen,this season.
So, again, if they don't go far.
Look for maybe one more seasonuntil people start falling off
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the Shea Gildress Alexanderbandwagon.
Maybe I'm being a little tooearly, a little too premature,
but it's him being the guy thatcan start to waver as early as
after next season.
But let's see what happensthough.
Let's see what happens Becausewe got to talk about another
player number two on my list and, ladies and gentlemen, that's
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John Moran, keep in mind.
All right, I don't expectMemphis to be a contender, right
, like they probably will loseto the Warriors If they don't,
cool, but like I'd be a littlesurprised if they beat the
Warriors.
But here's the thing, becauseJohn's doing all the guns and
all that stuff and the right youknow what I'm saying.
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Like I hear you, they're coolsellies.
They're cool sellies, thegrenade one.
That one's cool Problem is theantics that we had just last
season would prevent you fromdoing that.
If we're talking about amarketing purpose and again,
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remember the NBA is a business,you got to remember that.
So, if we need you to stopdoing certain stuff because you
put the spotlight on yourself,champ, and you're now saying,
nah, I'm going to double downand do more sellies, all right,
cool.
That means you got to dominate,that means your team got to
beat the Warriors, because if,because, if not, brother, you're
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not going to be as relevant aspeople as you're trying to make
yourself the scene.
I mean good talent, but if yourteam don't win, you're going to
be viewed as tradable realquick and I already said you
probably could be traded.
Keep it stacked with you, butit'd be tough to trade you to a
similarly design on it'ssimilarly designed.
You want to keep them, but atthe same time, I understand
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you're trading them, but again,there's pressure on john morant,
ladies and gentlemen.
So I'm paying very closeattention to how john morant
performs, because you got a lotof pressure on you this playoffs
, but the most pressured playersor entities, however you want
to classify for me, ladies andgentlemen, number one and it's a
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three-way tie.
And it's disgusting too,because one of these boys ain't
even in the playoffs, but it'ssteph braun and kevin and kevin
durant ad, you know I'm sayinglike you might be wondering why
in the world is ke Durant?
Kevin Durant is not anywhereclose to a championship this
season, so why is he on thislist?
Well, him, braun and Stephright now are technically the
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closest things to chasing MJ'slegacy that we have in today's
game.
So because of that, those threeare on this list, keep in mind.
Let's say I don't expect thisto happen.
But let's say Kevin Durantrattles off a three-peat right
quick.
Now we're talking about fiverings, two losses, and that's
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all right.
That changes a lot, right there.
So again, technically I'm goingto keep him up there, but y'all
see, he at the end it's Stephand Braun, and Steph and Braun
ain't in no specific clean.
I'll keep him up there, buty'all see, he at the end it's
steph and braun, and steph andbraun ain't in no specific order
.
I just typed them in there assuch.
But they got pressure againbecause we're chasing braun,
because we're chasing jordan.
Imagine if we can't win,imagine if steph gets out in the
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play, and that's going to betough on the legacy.
Because, again, you justacquired jimmy.
Y'all got a good squad, shouldbe able to win.
Hell, the, the grizzlies justfired their coach.
How can you not win?
Y'all have more cohesion.
Y'all been playing betterrecently.
I expect y'all to win.
And then, when braun and yougot luca, austin reeves has been
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snapping.
Like we got a squad right, likewe have a contending squad.
Both teams are contenders.
That should breed some pressure, especially if we're champions.
If there was champion, if therea squad right Like we have a
contending squad Both teams arecontenders that should breed
some pressure, especially ifwe're champions.
If there was pressure when KobeBryant was on the Lakers in
2010 and 09 and 08, how come wecan't have pressure on these
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boys now?
Let's stop being soft, ladiesand gentlemen.
Let's put these boys right hereas number one for pressure.
When they retire, cool, we canmove them off the list, but
until then they got the mostpressure they do.
If they win another one, maybewe can drop them down again,
because y'all saw how I treatedJokic and Jalen Brown.
Hell, jt ain't ahead of DonovanMitchell and Shea and John
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Moran.
So again, can't be too too softwith these boys, can't be?
We talking about championships,not the regular season, not the
regular season.
We talking about championships.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, y'all heard the listing for
the most pressure.
Y'all heard the most listing,or y'all heard the listing for
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the most pressure players orentities in the NBA for the
playoffs.
So with that, that doesconclude the episode, and I'm
curious what you all think.
So definitely comment below andmake sure you share me your
answers, but also please like,subscribe, comment.
Tell anyone who's anyone aboutthe show.
My name is Trey.
I'm the host of Get a Bucket.
Hope you all are having a goodone.
Take care.
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