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Peter Klein

The Philadelphia 76ers made a major move in the off-season getting Paul George. But now, the pressure is on. Peter Klein looks at the Top 5 Teams in the NBA that are under the most pressure.  Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/couch-potato-diary/id1564122189 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast

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00:00The NBA season is right around the corner, and some teams are gonna be feeling the heat,

00:13so to speak, with all of that.

00:15So here are the top 5 teams that are under the most pressure in the NBA this season.

00:22Coming in at number 5, it is the New York Knicks.

00:25When you are the Knicks and you are good, there is always pressure.

00:28When you are the Knicks and you had a seemingly promising playoff run last year, there's a

00:33ton of pressure.

00:34When it was cut short from injuries and you bring some of the key pieces back, even more,

00:38and then you make the two biggest trades of the offseason, it's going to pile up.

00:43The reason I only have them at 5 is because I still think there is the slightest bit of

00:48a honeymoon with this group this season.

00:50Now, if this year doesn't end with, honestly, probably two playoff series wins, then this

00:57team rockets to number one next year.

01:00The pressure is going to build very, very quickly in New York, but I still think there

01:05is a bit of a honeymoon with how good this team is and kind of how out of nowhere that

01:09came.

01:10So I don't think all of that pressure is there, but there is still quite a bit on them.

01:14At 4, it's Miami.

01:16The expectations in Miami aren't as high as they are with the Knicks, but I do think that

01:21with Jimmy Butler's contract coming up, and with, like, everyone was like, heat culture,

01:26heat culture, heat culture.

01:27Well, since that Finals, they haven't done a whole lot.

01:30And I think there is now a little bit of pressure on this team to try to stay relevant.

01:34Because if this season doesn't go well, I think that it could be a little bit—and

01:39I know Miami doesn't rebuild.

01:42They never do.

01:43And they somehow always—they get Dwyane Wade, and off they go.

01:46And they get a Bam Adebayo, and look at that.

01:48And they trade for a Jimmy Butler, and off they go.

01:51But I do think that if this year doesn't go well, we could see just the slightest step

01:55back for the Miami Heat.

01:57At 3, it's the Phoenix Suns.

01:59I think that they have kind of escaped some of the headlines since the postseason, but

02:05now, once this season ramps up, it's going to be like, oh yeah, they did spend a whole

02:09lot of money on this team to go nowhere, and to get just spanked in the first round of

02:15the playoffs.

02:16There aren't the, oh well, they're new, it's whatever, this is now—no no no no no.

02:20You have two of the most talented players in the league, they played together all year,

02:24so I get, like, you know, Beal was there too.

02:28But this has to start working in Phoenix.

02:31They are paying way too much money to get just annihilated in the first round.

02:35Speaking of which, at 2, it's the LA Clippers.

02:38They are spending a ton of money.

02:39They are going into a new arena.

02:41Everything now, from the offseason where they signed that guy, Kawhi Leonard, for those

02:46who are listening, and they made this push knowing that the new arena was coming in 2024-2025,

02:53everything was building up to this moment.

02:57And so far, it hasn't worked.

02:59They had one good playoff run, and otherwise it has been a whole lot of frustration.

03:03And they are still spending mucho dinero on this team, except they let one guy walk, and

03:09so now you are entering this new arena with Kawhi Leonard, who may, you know, walk on

03:15a court at some point this year, James Harden, and basically no other backup plan.

03:19So I think from NBA circles, there isn't a whole lot of pressure on them, because there

03:24is just not a whole lot of expectations.

03:26But given what this buildup was supposed to be, and what this year was supposed to mean

03:31for this team, in kind of branching out on their own, and moving out of mom's basement

03:36as the Clippers at Staples before, and now Crypto.whatever, they need this year to go

03:43well.

03:44And no one thinks it's going to.

03:46And if it doesn't, I don't know what happens.

03:48Probably nothing good with the LA Clippers.

03:51And at number one, it is the Philadelphia 76ers.

03:56Joel Embiid has won MVPs.

04:00You have a team that has won a ton of regular season games, but the playoff success hasn't

04:05been there.

04:06They then won the offseason.

04:07Now they need to win playoff serieses.

04:10This isn't good.

04:11It's not good enough to beat the Raptors, or to beat the whoever's in the first round

04:14of the playoffs.

04:15You need to go out and you need to actually win these series.

04:19And if they don't, like, I don't, I think Joel Embiid has escaped a lot of criticism.

04:27Because A, he's really good, right?

04:29But playoffs, it hasn't been good.

04:30And that, like, everyone's numbers take a dip in the playoffs.

04:33You are facing tougher competition.

04:34That's what it's going to be.

04:35But every year there has been an excuse.

04:38It's, oh, well, Ben Simmons.

04:39Oh, well, that didn't give me enough support.

04:41Which is, I do think something you can poke some holes in a little bit.

04:44Someone commented that on one of the best players in the league videos that we did.

04:49And I, I think we're overstating that a touch.

04:54Because, um, like you've had, I mean, they went out and they got James Harden.

04:58They had Jimmy Butler.

04:59They had to, like, their, their starting five when they lost to the Raptors was actually

05:03quite good.

05:04And now, you've gone out and got Paul George.

05:06Even if you want to use the, well, they didn't really get him anyone.

05:10Well now they do.

05:11Maxie looks like a superstar, and you brought in Paul George.

05:14So now you have a super team here that you need to do it.

05:18So that excuse is gone.

05:20He's saying that we're going to be committed to a championship, so we're probably going

05:22to be load managing this cat a little bit more.

05:25There are no more excuses for Joel Embiid.

05:27I do not see a player or a team that is under more pressure this year to succeed than the

05:33Philadelphia 76ers.

05:35Because if this doesn't work, you guys know I'm not a big blow-it-up guy.

05:39And I don't even think you should out in Philadelphia.

05:41But you're kind of running out of different cards to try to pull to try to make this thing

05:46work.

05:47So the Philadelphia 76ers are the team that is facing the highest expectations in the

05:51NBA this season.

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