Bobby Portis Talks About the Pressure of Playing for the Bucks

If you have one of the best players in the league on your roster, the pressure is always there to win. With an MVP candidate leading your team, the expectations are often championship contention. Obviously, that pressure falls a lot on the start who created the expectations, but it can also trickle down to the rest of the team. 

One of the players that instantly brings championship pressure is Giannis Antetokounmpo. Giannis is so good that every season he’s on the Bucks, there’s some expectation they will contend for a title. 

Bobby Portis went on a podcast recently and spoke about the pressure he’s felt every night the last few years on the Bucks. 

“And being a Buck the last six years, when you lose one game, it’s heavy on your shoulders. When you lose two or three games, it’s really heavy. You feel it. Not necessarily in the sense that you think you’re getting traded or whatever it is, but you definitely feel it. At the same time, you just try to be a pro. Being a pro every day is coming in and putting the work in. Literally, the only thing you can control is your work ethic and your attitude every day. As long as your work ethic and your attitude are good, then everything else that happens is just part of the journey. Everybody’s journey is going to be different.”

Having Giannis as your star has also brought another kind of pressure these last few years. With Giannis rumors constantly coming up about whether he wants to stay in Milwaukee, it adds pressure to every game. If the rest of the Bucks can’t prove they’re worth sticking around for, Giannis is going to leave.