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Suns 06 if Stoudamire was healthy, Suns 07 should have won it too.
Mavs 06 and Mavs 07 also could have won it if they didnt run up into Golden state lol
Queens 02 maybe should have won it too.
2002 Lakers.
Suns 06 if Stoudamire was healthy, Suns 07 should have won it too.
Mavs 06 and Mavs 07 also could have won it if they didnt run up into Golden state lol
Queens 02 maybe should have won it too.
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No team from 2005-2007 that didn't win a le should be put on this list. It was a weak era in basketball and those teams that didn't win wouldn't even be a contender for the upcoming season.
04 Spurs
Others that come up to mind are Suns 2007 and Knicks 1994
03 lakers
02 kings
00 blazers
98 jazz
A couple suns teams and blazer teams in the 90's
The 1987-88 Detroit Pistons
The 1991-92 Portland Trailblazers
The 1992-93 New York Knicks
The 1992-93 Phoenix Suns
The 1997-98 Utah Jazz
The 1999-00 Portland Trailblazers
THe 2002-03 Sacramento Kings
The 2004-05 Phoenix Suns
The 2005-06 Dallas Mavericks
The 2007-08 Detroit Pistons
Might as well put the 2007-2008 Lakers and Cavs. Those team could have easily beat the Pistons that year.
1995 Suns (were up 3-1 on the eventual champs, Rockets, who swept the Magic).
2002 Kings: No doubt were the best team in the league that year. Very questionable calls.
2006 Mavs: Got to hand it to em. They beat a championship caliber team in the 2006 Spurs and its a travesty that they lost.
+1
Especially since Danny Manning got injured when they had by far the best record.
Another vote for the 93 suns.hmmm I wonder what Richard Dumas is up to these days?
The same thing Amare's mom and DJ Strawberry's dad are up to.
It was the 1972-73 Boston Celtics. That was the best of the 70's Celtics teams- better than the 74 and 76 champions.
They were 68-14.
They were one of the greatest running teams of all time- faster than the running Lakers of the 80's.
For those that never saw them: they played like D'Antoni's Suns except they ran even better, played great defense, and rebounded really well.
They used to run off made baskets.
Havlicek never stopped sprinting. Cowens was the second fastest center of all time. Jo Jo White was spectacular during those seasons. Chaney was a great defensive guard. Silas and Nelson got most of the rest of the minutes. They had a little superfast back up point named Hambone Williams who used to increase the speed when he entered the game.
Tommy Heinsohn was the coach and he was one of the best ever.
The only reason they did not win the le that year is John Havlicek separated his shoulder and literally played one handed against the Knicks in the Eastern Finals (which still went to 7 games). If Havlicek had been healthy they would have destroyed that Knicks team.
Also the late 60's Lakers with Wilt, Baylor and West were great. They just could never beat Russell.
Last edited by Gant; 07-31-2009 at 01:33 PM.
Without question the Utah Jazz, the best team of the two *might* be the 96-97 team because they lost to a Bulls team that had seven more wins than they would have in 97-98.
The 96-97 Jazz team also had two more wins than they would have in 97-98 so overall both teams were better record wise in 96-97.
The fact that they played the Bulls twice in the Finals, during the midst of a three peat, with a team that had arguably the greatest player of all time says a lot about the Jazz, plus they took them to six games both times (Which isn't a great achievement but at least they didn't roll over).
The 95-96 Sonics team went six games with the 72-10 Bulls which is something. That team went 64-18.
2004: Indiana Pacers
2005: Detroit Pistons
2006: Dallas Mavericks
2007: Phoenix Suns
2008: None
2009: None
I didn't really see a very good team in 2008 and 2009 that could have a great chance at beating the champs of that year.
1993 Phoenix Suns
Jordan and Paxon's shot, that was a decent team with Barkley, had to play a great Bulls team.
1997 Utah Jazz
1998 Utah Jazz
Sloan, Stockton and Malone had the unfortunate privledge of having to play the mighty MJ and his Bulls.
2002 New Jersey Nets
2003 New Jersey Nets
Had to play a tough 3 peat Lakers team and next season an upcoming Spurs team with an emerging big 3 in Duncan, Ginobili and Parker.
2006 San Antonio Spurs
lost to the Mavericks in 7 games, that Ginobili foul on Dirk and a bad play at the end of the 4th quarter cost the Spurs hopes of repeating. They would have crushed Miami in the NBA finals.
The 96 Sonics would trash every one of those teams except the 84 Lakers.
Impossible.
Defense didn't exist until the late 80's and early 90's.
You never saw basketball before the 80's did you? The two greatest defensive players that ever lived (Russell and Wilt) played mostly in the 50's and 60's.
The best defensive guard I ever saw was Walt Frazier.
Also Havlicek, Silas, and Chaney were superb defenders. Havlicek and Chaney were two of the best ever at their spots. (Satch Sanders was also on that team but he was older by then, not the world class defender he was in the 60's.)
Last edited by Gant; 07-31-2009 at 02:04 PM.
the 69 lakers can destroy those 90's teams. id love to see how webber would have guarded wilt
I think Bill Russell might beg to differ.
One team that people don't mention(mostly because of hakeem's performance against them) is the 95 spurs. Not saying they were the greatest, but they won 62 games that year, and had the MVP(Drob), Rodman,Elliott,AJ,and Del Negro
60's (name a year) Lakers.
82-83 Lakers. After winning le the Lakers had the #1 pick in draft. I don't know if that has ever happend before or since. They chose Worthy and brought him along slowly during the season. Just as they were preparing to head to the playoffs... Worthy broke his leg and that was that.
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