Biggest choke in the playoffs is clearly 29 points. The Spurs were never going to do anything after giving that up.

My team is cooked

Ausar has to win the Most Wide Open Miss category. Dude throws up airballs so regularly.

Biggest Choke - the winner is very obvious, but here are some other nominees that would have been contenders in other years

• Cavs blow 22 point lead against Knicks in the 4th quarter in ECF game 1
• Magic blow 24 point halftime lead to close out series in game 6
• Celtics blow 3-1 lead in first round going into the playoffs as eastern conference favorites
• Rockets have possession and ball with 6 point lead and 35 seconds left against Lakers and lose game (round 1, game 3)

1. Devin Booker got a tech in the playoffs for getting pushed out of bounds. I’m still not sure what happened there.

Ausar got a tech for waving his finger to review a call. He did not say a word to the official. I don’t even know that he looked at him

Gonna be a lot of Spurs players

For underperforming team I’d like to nominate The Clippers who were expected to be a legit title contender and “won the offseason”, only to not make playoffs despite Kawhi having pretty much the best season possible.

Worst Free Throw Choke should go to Wemby in game 4.

Edit: Put Game 2 instead of 4 by accident.

The Rockets were the biggest underperformers. Basically went down 0-3 to old man Lebron + roleplayers. I couldn’t believe what I was watching.

1. Worst Contract of the Year

Damian Lilliard - Milwaukee Bucks 22.5 million for this past year. Wasn’t on the roster.

Total is 112.6 m over 5 years for the Tony Snell statline without the cardio.

I’ll go first - biggest playoff choke nomination: Spurs game 4 choke. Nomination number 1

Can I nominate the Pels for The Biggest Underperformers Even with No Expectations? The product that Joe Dumars put on the court out there was miserable, and that’s coming from someone who’s watched New Orleans basketball for 23 years

Biggest Choke of the Postseason: The San Antonio Falcons (Spurs). The entire series probability them winning is 90%+.

Spurs fans already downvoting this post is crazy

1 - Spurs game 4 should be a no contest

5 - Wemby going 0-2 from the line in game 4

Lmao. When it rains, it pours.

• Biggest choke: I’m still giving it to Orlando because how does an NBA squad miss that many buckets, good lord

• Biggest underperformer (player): Jokic?

• Biggest underperformer (team): Rockets were booty

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As a Knicks fan, this hurts to say but I nominate Josh Hart NBA Finals Game 4 missing that open layup/dunk that would’ve put the Knicks up by 1.

Biggest Free Throw Choke is definitely Wemby’s 2 FTs in NBa Finals Game 4.

Biggest underperformer vs expectations has to be 6MOTY Keldon Johnson, right?

1 - Spurs

2 - As far as I can remember, Wemby’s the only notable player with a flopping technical this season. https://streamable.com/ipuhmw

3 - idk

4 - Robinson/Wemby kerfuffle - https://streamable.com/nfe0ot

5 - Wemby in the clutch game 4.

6 - It’s gotta be Fox. A decent performance from him would’ve taken the finals to 6 games, a good one would’ve won it.

7 - Celtics or Rockets, take your pick.

8 - Despite popular belief, it’s not actually Bronny James.

9 - Fox’s contract is on everyone’s mind, but I doubt it’s worse than Poetl’s.

10 - OG’s double dribble (if that counts as a travel). Doubly worse than a regular season travel because it’s in the clutch in a finals game.

Thank God for that 29 point choke in the Finals, because that playoff choke award would’ve been named after Chet if that never happened.

number 1 gotta be unanimously for the spurs

Minor miracle the Cavs collapse is ancient history long forgotten

It’s a hot take but I think you could argue the Cavs Knicks choke was worse than the Spurs

1. 20 points in 9 minutes is less impressive than 22 points in 7 minutes
2. Mitch Johnson tried to call timeouts even though it didn’t work, and didn’t sit there with 4 timeouts
3. The Knicks didn’t go at Harden 9 straight times for 2 points per possession

There was something mind numbingly dumb watching the Knicks run the same exact pick and roll 9 straight times, Brunson torch Harden, and go 8-9 with 17 points that the Spurs game couldn’t compare to.

We need a coaching award here for Atkinson to win, or a “worst soundbite” award

Gobert airballing lob vs. Spurs in playoffs

I’m brick’d up for the biggest choke category 😈

worst player in the NBA is 100% patrick williams

For number 9 can we nominate the $20 million a year the Suns are still paying Bradley Beal to sit on the Clippers’ bench (like 3x more than his actual contract with the Clippers 😂)

Mobley bricked a left handed hook so bad I looked up his jersey number 

I feel like this is not going to be fun awards for me

People saying the Spurs being more categories than the obvious biggest choke are being hella prisoner of moment lol

1. Biggest Underperformer vs. Expectations (Team)
   

Indiana Pacers

Missed the over on their preseason O/U by 19 wins. Were expected to be like kind of decent and maybe push for a play-in spot in an East that ended up much stronger than expected at the start of the season. Just got absolutely killed by injuries this year (even beyond Hali).

We need an additional category for which the winner can be Desmond Bane.

Cavs are lucky there’s a whole lot of recency bias going on. Pistons too tbh. Cade’s turnovers were fucking horrible

The worst contract has to be Christian Braun at this point, that shit straight up might end up closing the Nuggets window with Jokic

KD’s burner account getting exposed once again has to be up there

Worst contract relative to production is Zach LaVine on the Kings. Played 0 defense and severely underperformed on offense. 40 million this year.

Fox choked the hardest in the finals but actually closed out playoff games along the way and was getting paid less than LaVine.

I truly believe Orlando’s g6 2nd half is the worst choke I’ve ever seen. The stakes weren’t that high but it was diabolical

Cavs game 1 against Knicks changed the playoffs.

They sent the Knicks on a legendary run and gave them a god complex.

Imagine if you’re religious, you go into the fourth quarter believing in yourself… and then the Cavs actually choke a 20+ lead. You start thinking that God is really real and you’re just destined to win.

A lot of athletes actually credit god and this insanity is very self-fulfilling.

Worst free throw choke was Wemby vs NY in Game 4. Brunson went down the other end and got a 2 to give NY their first lead and then Fox did what he did so everybody forgot about the free throws.

Chet should be in consideration for most disappointing something. 0 shot attempts in 3 quarters with your legacy/potential dynasty on the line

9 is poeltl i’ll hear nothing else

1. Biggest Underperformer vs. Expectations

Jaden Ivey

Uhh so like, not exceptionally high expectations, but he was definitely expected to be at worst a quality 6th man for the Pistons this year. Proceeded to lose his job to Daniss Jenkins, then lose his career w/ the, uhh, multitude of poor decisions he made in Chicago. Im sure Pistons fans can expand more on this.

4 is dbook saving the ball vs okc and getting a tech

1: Spurs 29 points

5: Wemby

6: Trae Young. He started off horrible and got hurt. And the hawks were a better team without him, traded for scraps after offseason hype about the hawks additions (they did eventually help, but it had nothing to do with Trae)

7: Pacers - I know Haliburton was out but did anyone expect them to go from NBA Finals game 7 to 2nd worst team in the league?

8: Tosan Evbuomwan on the Knicks. Played in 5 games and scored 0 points with a box plus minus of -11.5

9: Khris Middleton got paid $33 mil to put up 10 ppg on 42% shooting

Worst Free Throw Choke gotta be Wemby in Game 4 right? Completely missed the opportunity to put a small cushion between them and NY

Spurs game 4 finals

SGA game 5 WCF

Josh Hart missed layup

Ausar finger wave

Wemby 2 missed FT game 4 finals

De’Aron Fox

Celtics

Collin Gillespie

De’Aron Fox

Jalen Green vs the Spurs

Edit: holy hell I can’t format shit on this app on my phone

biggest underperformer (player) - Cade probably. We got a whole year of everyone saying hes way better than Brunson etc. only for him to become a turnover machine in the offs

biggest underperformer (team) - Pistons. This was supposed to be a “gap year” for the celtics anyway so their first round exit isn’t as big a deal as the pistons

Worst contract - Embiid for now and for the future, “the process” is a confirmed failure but nobody else is gonna want to pay that guy

Wemby’s errant pass in game 2 followed by his missed final shot.

Biggest Flop: Pacers tanked all year just to trade their pick away in a ridiculous gamble.

1. Spurs Game 4 vs Knicks. 3. Any deaaren Fox shot in the finals 5. Wemby vs Knicks 6. Jalen Duran 7. Pistons 8. Tie - Thanasis Anteakimbo (how ever that bums name is spelled) and Bronny. 9. Joel Embid

I know nobody watches jazz games but I’d like to nominate this Jokic moment for biggest flop. Only one I vividly remember from this season.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YUGO-gChoa0?feature=share

I’d like to suggest we add: Worst coaches challenge.

I’ll nominate when Mike Brown challenged an out of bounds call against OKC which KAT successfully saved before touching out of bounds. The call was overturned/successful, but he saved it right into the hands of IHart.

So even the out of bounds call was overturned, the end result was exactly the same no matter what because OKC had imminent possession.

I dont know that it was clutch, But Pascal Siakim airballed a free throw vs Rockets and Tari Eason’s reaction was just the “im so disappointed in you.” Body language. Craked me up.

So you just trying to invent Shaqtin’ A Fool huh?

The entire Kings season

Biggest team underperforming, Nuggets. Best in the world and an all nba guard in a contending team.

Edwards with 1 leg and other injured guards for a team needing playmaking BEFORE those injuries is crazy pull for Minny. Oh Gobert and Jaden where great too.

Rockets were the biggest choke of the playoffs

Celtics had no business being a 2 seed to begin with and Embiid was in MVP form for that series, Nuggets best defender was playing injured and the Timberwolves are a nightmare matchup, Cavs went to the conference finals for the first time post Lebron, OKC swept the first two rounds and took the Spurs to 7 games without their second best player, Spurs went to the goddamn finals despite being mostly children. Literally none of these teams were a disappointment at all.

The Rockets lost in the first round to a 41 year old man and role players.

Patrick Williams is the worst NBA player i have seen on a court this year.

Vivek

Can we have one for coaches? Specifically for Chauncey Billups.

1. Bigest choke of the year is Cleveland, it is 4 games long and that is how big the choke was.

2. Flop of the year is surprising because it will go to okc player not named SGA. It will go to Isaiah Joe.

3. To the coach of san antonio when he called a review.

4. Wemby

5. Fox

6. Dallas

7. Fox

1. The Boston Celtics. They were title contenders but blew a 3-1 lead in the first round to the 76ers who got swept in the second round to the Knicks (granted they were the champions but still).

1. The Fox’s Layup vs knicks in the finals 2. Something something SGA 3. 4. 5. Wemby going 0/2 vs Knicks 6. Chet Holmgrem 7. Celtics 8. 9. Lukas lol 10.

I think we all know who wins biggest choke of the playoffs

For #2, how do you possibly pick just one out of SGA’s catalog?

Celtics choke is underrated here. They were the favorite and it only took 4 games of appendicitis embiid to beat them

My team is going to get fried…

gonna be all spurs and thunder