N b A Champion.

Kendrick Perkins with us Now Perk.

Top of the morning.

Thio.

You, uh, Max, you're up first here, though.

This team's favored to win the East, which net Which player is under the most pressure?

The answer is Kevin Durant, and he's also under the most pressure in the N B.

A period this year.

Kevin Durant has been an M V P caliber player.

For at this point most of his career, he's one of the best ever.

He has a package of talent and skills in size where he should really be in the conversation for best ever.

But he's not in that conversation yet, and the reason is he couldn't get by the Warriors when he was in O.

K.

C.

And he had a stack team, and by the way, they had a Game seven at Oracle.

I was there and he and Rust did not get it done in that game.

And that same Warriors team then lost the LeBron James Cavs in seven games on.

By the way, I was there for that one to, um you know, the difference was LeBron and them got it done in crunch time K d and then didn't So k d and the Warriors look at each other and go this dude, LeBron when he screwed up, he is too much for either one of us.

Let's get together.

Once they did that, they formed a team that no one ever was going to be.

They had a 73 win team, and they added a prime Kevin Durant.

So what does that prove by winning a championship?

With that?

Durant did not prove the thing.

The champions normally proved doing that.

Well, he bawled out in the finals.

Yeah, no kidding.

Because he ain't the only thing you gotta worry about.

You gotta worry about Steph and Clay, the two best shooters ever.

Steph.

Also in M v P candidate.

You got Draymond green on that deep.

Of course, there's too much to worry about.

Katie is going to kill you.

Well, he didn't prove He was the best player in the world, or even that he could lead a team to a championship.

And then he did something that took a lot of guts.

I thought he said, Okay, watch this often a killer.

The only reason he had the Achilles is he insisted on playing in the finals when he probably shouldn't have.

He showed a lot of heart and then a lot of guts.

He said, I'm gonna go to Brooklyn, USA, New York City, the media capital of the whole wide world where their thirst year than anyone in the league for a chip.

New York hasn't won a chip in the MBA since 73.

Nothing since Dr J in the A B A.

Right.

I'm gonna go there.

I'm not joining US 73 win team.

I'm joining an also ran kind of team, and I'm gonna do what LeBron did in Miami.

I'm gonna form something here, and he did.

And now the Nets, the eyes of the world are on them and their fortunes will be tied.

Mauricio.

Any other player to Kevin Durant and per Kendrick Perkins, K D.

Has a chance to prove greatness on this team that he did not have a chance to prove in in Golden State.

So he is facing the most pressure in the MBA right now.

Not just on the nets.

Well, Max, first of all, let me let me address you like the numbers on the house, because you said that that O.

K.

C.

Team was stacked and they wouldn't stacked.

They had, Yes, he had Russell Westbrook with them.

But don't look at their roster and say that they were stacked because they weren't Second of all, how do you change every week?

And when I say that you use the main one saying just two months ago that Hey, you know what?

Brooklyn Nets.

They don't have to win the championship because almost always, always, almost God never come back.

Achilles Achilles can offer Achilles tear.

And now you're saying the guy who toys Achilles and his his first season back plan that since the injury.

And then you said Now you're sitting up here saying that the most precious on him?

No, it was a net, right?

Last time I Last time I checked Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, both of sleeping well at night.

You know why?

Because they have championships.

Okay, so they could retire from the game today and they're perfectly okay.

What they're doing now is just trying to add a scoop of ice cream on the side.

The net that has the most pressure is James Harden.

No other superstar has been catered to, like James Harden.

Take him back to the Rocket days, for example.

Okay.

Hey, 1st, 1st couple seasons, he get Dwight Howard.

Things didn't work out.

Blame Dwight Howard.

Get Dwight Howard out of their next couple seasons.

Get Chris Paul.

Things didn't work out with Chris Paul.

Blame Chris Paul.

Get Chris Paul out of there now.

Get Russell Westbrook.

Another M v P for last year.

Things don't work out with Russell Westbrook.

Guess what?

Now it's time for me to leave.

Russell Westbrook is gone.

James Harden is still there at the moment.

All of a sudden, he throws a hissy fit and says, I want to go to the Nets.

I wanna go team up with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant Hissy fitted his way out and got what he wanted.

Now he's with the Brooklyn Nets and is one of the only superstars that that has accomplished everything that he needed individually.

MVPs scoring titles, led the league and assist 50 point triple doubles, etcetera.

Now you have the perfect layout, the perfect layout.

Now you don't have no one else to blame.

You don't have no more excuses not to deliver a championship.

So the pressure on eyes on James Harden not Kevin Durant, not Kyrie Irving.

Those two guys got rings already.

James Harden is searching for his first title.

A couple of things.

Um, yeah.

Harden got pressure to no doubt about it, but I've never said anything about the other than other than K D has pressured.

The question is not Katie.

Have pressure to win the most pressure to win a championship this season.

The question is, which player?

Which net in this case is facing the most pressure.

And that's Katie.

It's Katy's team, Que de put it together.

K D is the best player on the team, including Harden, including Kyrie.

K D is the one with a chance to go down at the uppermost echelon off greats who ever played the game.

He should be in the Jordan LeBron Kobe Magic Bird conversation.

And yet, usually if he is, his name comes last.

And that's because he has not shown that he can have a team that he leads to a championship.

He joined the Warriors team, a champion already a team that was impossible to beat once he joined them.

That's why he's facing the most pressure.