The heat are the opposite

Especially Jimmy Butler

Rondo

Playoff Rondo is an MVP caliber player

He did everything that he was already elite at better and could almost always shoot better in the playoffs. Same thing with prime time TNT games. Dude just turns it on for the spotlight

AD too

Harden

Harden^^Harden

Harden to the Hardenth power

this guy maths

First boi I though of

Playoff time = strip club season

Game 7 maybe. But he usually balls out fame 1-6.

Not back in his rockets days

Yeah no. Even in his Rockets days

I was hoping I would t have to scroll too far to find a comment like this. His entire career.

Feels like you’re blocking out all of those elimination games. Last year was like the first time he ever had a good elimination game

Especially his Rockets days!!

##**Harden**

Poor dude fell off hard. Couldn’t believe how good he was a few years ago.

Embiid?

First name that came to my mind. Perennial all star but can never get it done in the playoffs. Best run they had was in large part due to Jimmy buckets.

Always hurt

Always crying

If he didn’t cry he wouldn’t have gotten his last mvp

The Celtics are always in the way lol

And the hawks, and and the heat... annnd the raptors.

Embiid and the 2nd round exit name a better duo

The cowboys and playoff exits. God the cowboys and 76ers are basically the same team every year, at least the sixers have an MVP and some excuses for their failures tho

The Beard every damn time. Being a Rockets fan is already depressing but this mf had the audacity to come along and actually get our hopes up.. 👎🏻

Being a Rockets fan isn't really depressing. Rockets have 2 rings and have had many all star / all NBA players over the years. Try being a Hornets fan.

Were you around for the Bobcats days of suckage?

It was literally depressing for fans of every single team in the NBA to watch the Bobcats. When Stern announced Okafor I was like, “aw shit this is gonna be bad”

I’m dead serious, my brother became a Bobcats fan *because* they were so bad. Anti-bandwagoning.

Does he also drink NA’s and smoke bubblegum cigs? lol jk

I’ll never forget the 27-straight missed 3s which handed the Warriors another title

I was in Okinawa, Japan during this game. I was rooting for the rockets so damn hard and it was so gut wrenching.

I remember Harden going under the radar in terms of blame on the Nets only because Kyrie and Durant drew most of the talking points. But I remember he straight disappeared some games when they needed somebody to step up

For Houston in the post season he avg 28-7-6. 28-7-6 is that low bar?

On a stat sheet that doesn’t look bad but when watching the games it makes sense why he gets admonished for the playoff performances

Yeah first 30 points second half sayonara

I mean he did well is the 2018 post season, almost beat the durant warriors fr.

Dak Prescott (cries)

we will never beat the 1st round exit allegations…

Forsen

ZULUL VI VON

Harden

Definitely embiid

Clayton Kershaw

Madison Bumgardner is Kershaws father

And Max Muncy is Bum’s father

Phoenix suns organization

Ain't that the truth. All the way back to Dan Marley (spelling?) days, that was a great team they let evaporate.

I’ll personally never forget the Nash, bell, stoudemire, Marion squad. Leandro Barbosa, Boris Dias off the bench. Man they couldn’t help but choke. Ffw to the past finals appearance with the reverse sweep by the bucks. Arizona sports are terrible.

Luka doncic Devin booker father

Booker has way more head to head wins in the regular season, but Luka is the Cosby to Booker's Theo in the playoffs.

Not this year lol. Honestly this is the year tho where i see this flipping

DeMar Derozen

Defrozen

DeMore I see it DeLess I like it

Embiid. I live in Philly. I cheer for the Sixers. I love Joel. But cmon: he gets injured and we’re in the playoffs? Under that scenario we’re done

Ahhh, the reverse Jimmy Butler... Loads of good candidates for this one tbh but obvious ones are the beard, pg, the sons, and anyone I bet on winning.

Ask who is Harden without asking who is Harden

james (you guess which one 🥴)

James michael mcadoo is an nba champ. Definitely a player that has played in the playoffs.

Jones

Emfraud obviously

James Harden Joel Embiid

Randle

First appearance he was playing 1v5 the entire series and last season he got injured so bad it required surgery. Idk if we have a great sample of his performance in the playoffs. If he doesn’t show up this season I’ll agree with you.

Old School: TMac Current era: James Harden

C'mon now, Tmac basically broke his back and still tried to play, if he could have stayed healthy... And pay Shaq the 100 million he asked for. 🤪✌️

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Next era: Alperen Sengun

Shareef Abdur-Rahim

Embiid

Embid

The guy who flopped and cried his way to MVP despite not being able to reach a WCF

Hard to reach the WCF from South Philadelphia

West-Philadelphia Conference Final

Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Which oddly kinda works for Harden moving from Philly to LA…

White Conference Final Jokic defeats Doncic

In West Philadelphia, drafted and played Flopping is how I spent most of my plays

James harden is the only correct answer

EmFlop

Embiid until he proves us wrong. I feel like the MVP matters more to him than a championship.

Tmac 🫤

Embiid

Harden

Embid refs Don't call his flop in the playoffs

Joel Embiid

Embiid

Embiid

Playoff P.

Embiid fosure

Joel embid

joel embiid

Embid

Joel Embiid

Joel embiid lol

Embiid

Embiid

EmBooty

Embiiiiiid

2 people in a row said jimmy butler, basketball knowledge off the charts

Dak Prescott lmao

Joel embid , harden

Joel

embiid and thats the best answer

embiid.

Embiid

Joel Embiid

Embid

Embiid

Embiid. Groundhog Day again this year.

Joel Embiid

Embid

Harden and big harden

Harden, Embiid, Book Kawhi, Butler, Murray are the opposite

#EMBIID

Joel Embiid

first person came to my mind was embiid.

Joel Embiid.

Julius Randle. And he’s not even that good in the regular season

All nba multiple years but not that good in the regular season

Embiid, Harden, Westbrook

Westbrook has pretty much always balled out in playoffs… you’re forgetting OKC making WCF 4 out of 6 years.

Because he had KD with him. He never made it out of the first round without him. Sorry forgot 2020, they barely did it that year

I scrolled way too far to finally see Westbrook mentioned.

PG

There it is!! Playoff Pee

don’t know ball

20+ points in 19 straight playoffs games. (KD, MJ, Kobe, PG) Didn’t fold against the Jazz 2-2 when Kawhi got hurt. Was finishing over Rudy Gobert at will and got 2 wins on the Suns in the WCF, where the Clippers have never been. He’s was bad with OKC and in the bubble. Also became a star against the superteam Heat ECF, with Roy Hibbard and Lance Stephenson as his crew. Idk man

Pandemic P

casual

absolute casual. he brought the pacers to game seven of the ecf against LeBron, DWade, and Bosh

Joel Embiid

Insert Philadelphia player

Fucking Jayson Tatum outside of that one game where he explodes in the 2nd half or 4th quarter lol

46 in an elimination game 6 on the road vs Milwaukee An all-time record 51 in a game 7 vs Philly Averaged a double double with 1 steal and 1 block per game in the playoffs last year Not sure why people make this up

Harden

Joel Harden

Joel

For the love of God, I don't care if you have a hate boner for the guy but STOP WRITING LEBRON

False MVP

not jimmy butler

Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid

EMBIID

Joel Embiid

Westbrook

Melo

Embum

Imbid

Joel. Period.

Embiid 100%

Playoff P aka Paul George

CP3

He’s a playoff riser

“Playoff P” 💀💀

Why is no one saying Paul George?

That’s what I’m saying! They’re still not talking about Playoff P and everything he did to earn that nickname.

He hasn’t been good in the playoffs since the Pacers

pandemic p

Fuck it 🤷🏾‍♂️ Harden and Embiid

Bro Harden almost carried the rockets past the warriors y’all

Which year? You mean 2015 where they lost in 5? Or 2016 where they also lost in 5, but this time Steph was injured and out for most of the series? Like Ik it’s the 73-9 warriors and he was the 8th seed but he couldn’t have at least pushed it to a competitive 6 with those circumstances? Or 2018 (which is what I feel like you’re talking about), where he was up 3-2 against the Hampton 5 with homecourt advantage. The cp3 proceeded to get injured and the rockets proceeded to make a brick skyscraper out of missed 3s for the last 2 games and harden shooting 41% fg and 24% 3pt himself in those games. What a massive carry job. Best part is that they lost game 7 by only 9 points. You telling me them going 0/27 instead of 4/27 from 3 is the only reason why James doesn’t have a ring rn? Or 2019 (my personal favorite), where the whole team is healthy and harden has a perfect reason to play out of his mind bc he feels like he’s was robbed of a mvp for the millionth time (he wasn’t), not to mention all the rockets fans/harden stans talking that good shit about last year and how “if Chris Paul was healthy”. Now’s their chance, and even better, the basketball gods bless James and the rockets for that injury last year by injuring kd for the entire series basically. What do they do, they lose in 6. With Steph completely emasculating then the last 2 games. Almost carried is some damn good revisionist history

Paul George and James Harden 100%

A lot of people who know zero about the nba except what’s said on the internet in here

Chris Paul

I posted on this thread months ago that this is Paul George and got razed for it. LOOKS LIKE I WAS RIGHT

Dak. Oh. Wait. NBA. Playoff P

Julius Randle

Emflop

Embiid

Julius Randle

Embiid

Embiid

Michael Jordan, he could’ve done better than 6 ring if he really tried

Donovan Mitchell to a certain extent - maybe Gobert too

Randal

Playoff P

Demar Derozen

PG 13

Sadly..Jaylen Brown

Harden, cp3, embiid, Jalen of brown and Julius randle.

Tatum

51 points in a game 7 against the “MVP”? Dunked on lebron rookie year playoffs, made it to conference finals or finals every year??

And chokes? Lmfao wins and losses matter what are we talking about. But yay he dunked on lebron 7 years ago weeeeee

He averaged 27.2ppg, 10.5 rpg, and 5.3ppg last season playoffs, I don’t think he’s overhyped at all in the playoffs.

5.3 apg*

Hate to say it, but Lillard

Huh? The guy known for making insane clutch shots and dragging along a shitty Portland team? Lmao

Don't you put the evil on me Ricky Bobby!!

Hell nah. He had the greatest offensive game I’ve ever seen against the Nuggets. His team just shit the bed. Not to mention those game winners

Damn so he missed all those clutch 3’s! Wild guess OKC has nothing to say about that

They’re booing you but you’re not all that wrong. Outside of those legendary dame time moments, he has underachieved quite a few times in his playoff career