A list like this is not somewhere any NBA player wants to find his team. It’s difficult enough, of course, to get to the NBA playoffs, and even more difficult to win games once there. But what can be truly difficult is to find yourself in a comfortable position in a playoff game or series, then blow it utterly.
Sometimes the pressure gets to be too much. Every possession gets tougher. The basket seems to get smaller. Even simple dribbles and passes seem fraught with potential mistakes.
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That’s been the case more than once over the course of the NBA’s playoff history, where big leads can evaporate quickly and memorably, and where heavy favorites can be meekly dispatched by much lesser foes.