Man, I'm rooting for Tatum to finally get his this year, but if he doesn't this line of set-ups they've blown is gonna be ugly as hell.
2018: Lost after going up 3-2 on a Cavs team that was basically Bron + trash
2019: Lost after going up 1-0 on the Bucks who had never won a playoff series
2020: Lost to a #5 seed Miami squad after the Bucks had gotten cleared out for them
2021: Embarrassed in the first round by a Nets squad who never beat anyone else
2022: Lost to a #3 seed Warriors team after going up 2-1 cause they couldn't outplay Andrew Wiggin
2023: Lost to a #8 seed Heat squad cause they couldn't stop Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent
2024: Nuggets, Thunder, Clippers, Lakers, Suns, Knicks, Bucks, Sixers all got cleared out for them, all they have to beat is two extremely inexperienced teams and they have their title.....
They really had everything lined up to win it all in 2022 and at least get to the Finals in 2018, 2020, and 2023....if they don't win it all this year it'd be the 5th time in 7 seasons that they lost before they should have.