The Missing Rings - best teams to never win a le

[Fenix]

1992 knicks. go watch game 7 of that bulls/knicks series, most 1 sided officating game in playoff history, you werent allowed to breath on jordan, it makes lakers/kings look fair.

[Killakobe81]

1992 knicks. go watch game 7 of that bulls/knicks series, most 1 sided officating game in playoff history, you werent allowed to breath on jordan, it makes lakers/kings look fair.

what jordan got calls?! Blasphemy!!!

All jokes aside, hate when people point to reffing for a reason a team wins or loses. Reffing sucks period with blatant home bias and star prefferential treatment. since you are ensured at least 2 home playoff games, you only need to over come homecookin' ref bias for 1 game to ensure a chance to win a series at your home, provided you protect your house (if you do not have HCA) ...

Sure 2002 WCF and plenty others look bad, but often times thouse teams pissed away chances to win the series, that had NOTHING to do with the refs. If Sacto secures a rebound preventing the Horry 3 in game 4 it would of never came down to Game 7 ...heck, if Sacto would of made their FT's (they were one of the league's best FT teams) despite losing out on homecookin' they win that series.

[manufan10]

what jordan got calls?! Blasphemy!!!

All jokes aside, hate when people point to reffing for a reason a team wins or loses. Reffing sucks period with blatant home bias and star prefferential treatment. since you are ensured at least 2 home playoff games, you only need to over come homecookin' ref bias for 1 game to ensure a chance to win a series at your home, provided you protect your house 9if you do not have HCA) ...

Sure 2002 and plenty other look bad, but often times though teams pissed away chances to win series. If Sacto secures a rebound preventing the Horry 3 in game 4 it would never came down to Game 7 ...heck if Sacto would of made their FT's (they were one of the league's best FT teams) despite losing out on homecookin' they win that series.

what jordan got calls?! Blasphemy!!!

All jokes aside, hate when people point to reffing for a reason a team wins or loses. Reffing sucks period with blatant home bias and star prefferential treatment. since you are ensured at least 2 home playoff games, you only need to over come homecookin' ref bias for 1 game to ensure a chance to win a series at your home, provided you protect your house (if you do not have HCA) ...

Sure 2002 WCF and plenty others look bad, but often times thouse teams pissed away chances to win the series, that had NOTHING to do with the refs. If Sacto secures a rebound preventing the Horry 3 in game 4 it would of never came down to Game 7 ...heck, if Sacto would of made their FT's (they were one of the league's best FT teams) despite losing out on homecookin' they win that series.

So nice, you gotta say it twice.

All good points.

[JamStone]

I don't know if they really fit in this category, but a team that comes to mind that could have been really great were the 2000 and 2001 Miami Heat teams. I think the 2000 Heat team was a Tim Hardaway foot injury away from being the NBA Finals East representative team. They probably would have beaten the Pacers. I don't know if they challenge the Lakers but perhaps give a better fight than the Pacers. And the 2001 team had so much promise until they found out about Mourning's kidney disease. They made those big moves for Eddie Jones and Brian Grant and Anthony Mason. I thought they were poised to own the East for a few years.

Maybe they were not as good as some of the other teams mentioned, but a big part of that seems to be that those couple seasons, injuries really derailed their opportunity to see if they could have been great.

[BUMP]

surprised nobody mentioned last year's Heat team

And I also don't see the point of naming teams in their off years that did win les. Otherwise we could just say (insert year that they didn't win) Showtime Lakers or Celtics

[Killakobe81]

surprised nobody mentioned last year's Heat team

And I also don't see the point of naming teams in their off years that did win les. Otherwise we could just say (insert year that they didn't win) Showtime Lakers or Celtics

Good point, but wouldnt last year Bulls be right behind or last years SPurs. You could argue Bulls and Spurs had better teams, but Heat had better elite talent (top heavy) ...

[BUMP]

Good point, but wouldnt last year Bulls be right behind or last years SPurs. You could argue Bulls and Spurs had better teams, but Heat had better elite talent (top heavy) ...

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I don't see how you can say Bulls>Heat when the Heat dispatched of them in 5 games.

And the Spurs were never contenders in most people's eyes.

[mavs>spurs]

dude came out of left field with "bulls and spurs" lmao gtfo. neither of those teams were ever serious contenders and were easily dispatched of.

[Killakobe81]

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I don't see how you can say Bulls>Heat when the Heat dispatched of them in 5 games.

And the Spurs were never contenders in most people's eyes.

Im just speaking regular season wise ...Obviously even plenty of Spurs fans knew they were flawed ...Heat and Bulls were the more legit teams. And I said right after Heat ... obviously heat was the best team to not win it all last year ...

[JoeTait75]

1992 knicks. go watch game 7 of that bulls/knicks series, most 1 sided officating game in playoff history, you werent allowed to breath on jordan, it makes lakers/kings look fair.

Dude, they lost that game by 30 points. They got killed.

[Latarian Milton]

surprised nobody mentioned last year's Heat team

And I also don't see the point of naming teams in their off years that did win les. Otherwise we could just say (insert year that they didn't win) Showtime Lakers or Celtics

we ain't that good last year tbh, we had no quality in paint and we made that TC look like a god. however, even though the mavs won it last year, they were the worst team to ever win a le

[Dex]

Already been mentioned, but I'm still bitter about the 2006 Spurs.

A lot of focus went on .4 in 2004, but people seem to forget that the Lakers handled the Spurs pretty easily in three other games.

2006, however....that team was so stacked. Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, and Bowen all in their primes. Barry, Horry, Finley, Mohammed, Rasho, Oberto, Beno, Van Exel....just looked great on paper. 63-win season, #1 seed.

The whole series against the Mavs was epic, but to see it crumble on a stupid foul by Manu, after what should've been a game winner in a Game 7...still just doesn't sit right. I have no doubt the Spurs would've gone on to win the le, but instead we had to sit and watch the Mavs choke it away and give Shaq another ring to match Duncan.

[mindcrime]

Don't go 16-30 from the FT line in an overtime game at home. No one to blame but themselves. They make just one more FT and they have a le.

No pity from me.

Hate to say it but I have to agree. Kings got shafted in game 6 but they got a big time break toward the end of game 5 when the ball went out of bounds off Webber, but wasn't called. I say that evens things out.

At the end of game 7 nobody was worth a damn besides Bibby. Every single player choked and choked hard. You can't expect a point guard to single handedly win a game against a powerhouse Lakers team.

[Sense]

2004 Spurs

[Leetonidas]

2006 Spurs were something else. That Mavericks team was just put together perfectly to beat them. If only Popovich hadn't been a re and continued to play Nazr and Rasho instead of starting Michael ing Finley next to Timmy and expecting him to guard Dirk and that's not even bringing up Manu's foul completely ting all over Timmy's epic game 7 performance. Still probably the greatest and hardest fought series I ever got to witness

[JoeTait75]

At the end of game 7 nobody was worth a damn besides Bibby.

Bobby Jackson too, but that was just about it.

Doug Christie was practically running away from the ball in that game.

Sad. They matched up really well with the Lake Show, too. But they didn't have the stones to close it out.