Which player is under the most pressure?

Stephen I to me, it's cool.

I'll lend it in the West.

I put the Wild Leonard right up in there.

You know?

Listen, okay, you can get away.

Would being quiet all you want, and that's fine.

Last year he did a lot, Man.

He did a lot to put everybody on notice that he had arrived to take what belonged to King James.

And guess what?

It didn't happen.

And it didn't happen in a lot of people's eyes, primarily because of him, not just this performance in Game seven along with that of Paul George, but because of him being the face of the franchise because of the expectations that were placed on them because of the city that he lives in the second largest market in the United States of America.

The list goes on and on and on.

We could look at a lot of players, but the name that comes to me is co island.

It because the first time in his career that he had pressure applied to him wasn't that pressure in San Antonio wasn't necessarily there in San Antonio.

I mean, in Toronto, He wanted out of San Antonio.

They didn't move him to where he wanted to go, which was L.

A.

So they sent them to another country, which is Toronto.

And what have you He didn't have that same amount of pressure because he was only gonna be there for one year.

And that was that.

Last year was when the pressure was on.

He did not answer the call in a Game seven the same Game seven, that Jamal Murray dropped 40.

Then you hearing about load management.

They got an investigation going on right now with Jerry West and the Clippers.

In terms of the recruitment of Koel ended, the league is investigating.

I supposed to commissioner Adam Silver about that earlier this week.

All of this stuff is going on, Co Wilen.

It is in the eye of the storm.

Now, for the first time in his career, he's got the kind of pressure applied to him, Certainly not as much as LeBron James, because nobody has that kind of pressure, but relatively similar.

We going to see whether or not he answers the call plain and simple.

Well, you just said it.

The answer is clearly LeBron James, by far the most pressure in the Western Conference.

If he was on a team, that's not a clear cut champion, that's one thing that's fine.

You just want a championship.

Here's the bottom line.

He's with another top five player.

If LeBron James got another top five player, they just want the title.

Their favorite.

He has to win it again.

Let me let me make this clear for Perk, who shaking his head is a rhetorical question.

You have a chance to answer in a second.

I just set my head coach.

Shots were playing together.

When?

When?

When Kobe and Shaq we're playing together, you're gonna tell me just cause they wanna chip the first chip that there was more pressure on Chris Webber in them to win again.

Naman.

There was more pressure on Kobe and Shaq because they're the two best or two of the three best players in the world on the same team, and they were expected to win.

The man when he has a crew, is expected to win and always has the most pressure.

You mean to tell me just because the Bulls repeated that it wasn't now Michael Jordan has another top five player on the team.

In Scottie Pippen, they won a championship.

But because of that, there's really more pressure on Charles Barkley because he never won than Michael Jordan when he screwed up.

Never that there was always more pressure on Jordan when he was playing Pippen with Pippen on Shaq or Kobe when they were playing together than anyone else in the conference.

And there is more pressure on LeBron James playing with a D and coming off a chip.

Then there is anybody else.

Well, Max, I have to respect respectfully disagree with that.

Uh, Steven, you brought up a great point about Koala, and it is a lot of pressure.

He is one of the most guys that's under pressure in the Western Conference, but I gotta go with Dane Dollar.

Damian Lillard Damian Lillard has took the jump as being a leak superstar.

Now we all know that Damian Lillard, in my opinion, is the best point guard in the league.

And Stephen A.

I know you go disagree and go with Steph Curry, and that's okay.

But Damian Lillard is the best PG in the league today, and right now, when you look at this Portland Trail Blazers team and what they did in the off season and guys coming back healthy, they have one of the best rosters in the NBA.

So with that being said, it's time for Dame Dollar to lead them to new heights and make them a contender.

Get them to the finals, The pressures on Dame Dollar, We know what he's capable of doing, but now he has every piece that he needs to contend for the title.

And I believe that the pressure is on him in the Western Conference.

Well, the reason I disagree with you respectfully is not to say that Dame Dollar doesn't have pressure on him because he is a superstar in this league.

I got him number two behind Curry because I think that Curry's not just a sniper like abilities, but also the fact that he moves so much without the basketball.

For the most part, I think that makes him a very formidable threat from that point guard spot.

Having said all of that, what I would say to you, I think that my choice of koel in it eclipses Dame dollar is because of all the ancillary things that I brought into the fold in terms of the investigation, in terms of the recruitment of Kawhi Leonard in terms off Paul George and how the Clippers were asked to mortgage their future in order to get this guy because it wasn't enough for you to go.

You have to make sure you had this guy Paul George with him.

The fact that tomorrow Murray dropped 40 on you in a Game seven when you are a no show, particularly in that second half after being up 31 and you blow a 31 lead in the Western Conference finals.

If it were not for the immediate backdrop of all of those things that transpired in the bubble and all of the stories that used out of the Clippers organization since they faltered against the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference finals, you would have a profound argument about Dame Lily KP.

But the fact of the matter is cape.

You know Damon Lil, it just has to continue to do what he's been doing bawling and hope that that drives them or propels them to the finals in the case of Colin in all of these story lines that come with it and the way you had new balance had you basically sticking out your chest is saying a new day has arrived in L.

A.

We coming to take this town from King James?

I just think that when you look at it from all of those different perspectives, it clearly is Kawai Leonard, who is on the hot seat in terms of being under that microscope, even more so than Damian Lillard.

Okay, all three of you have LeBron James, by the way.

No pressure.

LeBron's Air Force LeBron's a four time champion, four time champion.

He's the reigning champion right now.

That's not way.

Ain't worried about LeBron James, Max Lillard and Co.

Y Lillard and Hawaii playing with another M V P caliber player.

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