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Best NBA team to never win a championship
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Jayou Ayen
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Drexler era Blazers
Kemp era Sonics
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Diddly Drogba
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haha, this may be the oneThe 73-9 Warriors
.There are a few others that stick out. The 92 knicks were great. They had all of the tools to beat Chicago and then the next season gutted their defense(Wilkins, X man) to add more scoring with Charles Smith. They still had the bulls down 2-0 before the bullshyt started with the officiating to ensure Jordan got to the finals.
88 Mavericks. That team was goddamn loaded(google if u aren't old enough to remember), but they had just one problem. They were in the west with the lakers.
2006 Spurs : Being that the division leader bullshyt was in place, The top 2 teams in the West played each other in the 2nd round(Spurs/Mavs). So the Nuggets, who won 44 games, were now a 3rd seed when they should have been a 7th or 8th only because they won their division. With us and the Mavs playing each other in the 2nd round, they beat us over 7 games, but we didn't have to worry about them in 07 because that #1 seed got them swept in the first round against the Warriors
2007 Mavs - See above
1969 Lakers - Books have been written about this. This was the Lakers' best squad. You had 3 dudes with the potential of putting up 50 on any given night in the lineup and the Celtics were aging. This was their year. Wilt got hurt the next year and came back late, but they will made the finals and lost again.
Gil Scott-Heroin
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I'm surprised barely anyone has mentioned this squad.
They dominated a 67-win Spurs team (a squad that would've won a title most seasons), and then went up 3-1 against a 73-win Warriors team, and it was only because of anomaly performances from Steph and Klay as to why they lost. They would've easily handled the Cavs had they progressed too.
No other team in history can really attest to displaying that type of ability. No other team mentioned in this thread can fukk with that.
If it wasn’t for CP3s hamstring
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Taadow
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This is the answer, imo.
The only thing that killed them was frontcourt depth in The Goon Era.
(I don’t wanna sound like This Guy, but) that team today wins 80 games every year.
All-World Two-Way Guard
Rod Strickland
Big Men who can shoot The J AND FTs (Duckworth & Mark Bryant)
Good Wing Defense (Clifford Robinson & Jerome Kersey)
Bench Scoring (Porter & Ainge)
Elite Offensive Rebounder (had Thorpe, traded for Buck)
…and remember:
- Drazen was sitting on the bench!
- they had the rights to Young Sabonis, but fukken USSR wouldn’t clear him
- Sam Bowie was great until he took more than 25 steps
yet they still made it to two Finals.
Healthy Bowie or Sabonis on that team changes history IMO
They weren’t even the best western conference team of THAT era to not win a title
the bossman
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Dabrothawithnoname
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That team had minimal shooting and was co led by one of the most erratic point guards in NBA history.They would've been lucky to even win 2 games against the Cavs.
Kanter was getting every rebound against the Spurs and they lacked athleticism and speed to match.Even then two of those games was still very winnable but Spurs didn't execute if I recall correctly.
Ibaka was always Spurs killer too.
Warriors underperformed vs OKC especially Draymond which disrupted the Warriors offensive flow due to OKC's length and guys like Roberson and Waiters had fluke performances from distance.
OKC could've won in 6 but Warriors was always the superior all round team.OKC relying on Durant and Westbrook heroics always gonna come back to bite them when facing a high IQ team with an actual system.
Kyrie and Lebron would've torched OKC and Love would've played better vs them.Cavs had better shooting,coaching and versatility.
Illuminatos
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2016/2019 Warriors
shyt I'll take the 2010-2017 Grizzles over the clippersThey weren’t even the best western conference team of THAT era to not win a title
Roger king
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The 2016 warriors, the won the most games in regular season in NBA history and were heavily favored to win the championship, if not for arguable the greatest basketball player of all time in lebron james playing the best basketball he possibly could and will his team to a 3-1 comeback, they had no bisness winning that series
The 2003/2004 lakers team that super team with prime shaq and bryant suppose to easily beat detriot or sweep that team, it is still one of the all time choke jobs in the nba history
The 2003/2004 lakers team that super team with prime shaq and bryant suppose to easily beat detriot or sweep that team, it is still one of the all time choke jobs in the nba history