Rachel Nichols

It is due at the literal minute mark of the end of this show.

And I think in real time over the next three hours, we are going to work out the sticky parts of my ballot because I've still got a couple of things I'm really on the fence over.

So we can all do it together.

I think that's really the only answer.

That's what's so crazy.

I think fans sometimes think that voters, even non-voters who talk about it on TV, that we just sort of fill out the ballot willy nilly.

I have like mounds of research and stats and things I go over and video clips.

And I bet you do, too.

Look, obviously, it's on the table, right?

And you had ownership put down the gauntlet in a way, frankly, I have never seen.

You had the owner of the team fire the coach that led them to their best performance in 25 years.

Game six of the Eastern Conference Finals.

One game away.

I mean, like, how much more do you want?

And look, I've covered Tom Thibodeau on multiple teams.

I understand the Tom experience wears on people.

But the results are the results.

So now that he has gone on to say, James Dolan, that they have to win a title, that they have to get to the finals, that just getting to the end of the Eastern Conference Finals isn't good enough.

I think that puts tremendous pressure on these guys.

And I wonder if that's going to affect them at all as they go through this bracket as well.