The BEST team to never win

[Im Still Ballin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLRZAXcKRY

This team would beat most championship squads

Epic team

Amazing fanbase

We're coming. 2016 playoffs baby, George Karl is finally going to get his first championship... Might be in 2 years, or 10... But it's going to happen.

[AnaheimLakers24]

Why couldnt they make their free throws in game 7 if they are so good? Peja with that airball though. GOAT game 7 performance by that team

[RoundMoundOfReb]

2012 Thunder up there as well. How LeBron beat a team with 3 MVP level players is simply beyond me.

[Im Still Ballin]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YwiSFg-px-Y/R8UviOhKn8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/7vdv4qBR4L0/s1600/beatla.jpg

[AnaheimLakers24]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YwiSFg-px-Y/R8UviOhKn8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/7vdv4qBR4L0/s1600/beatla.jpg
They didnt :lol not in 99
not in 00
not in 01
and not in 02

[Im Still Ballin]

http://kingsscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Kings_Lakers018.standalone.prod_affiliate.4.jpg

[Im Still Ballin]

They didnt :lol not in 99
not in 00
not in 01
and not in 02
Lakers will never win another championship

EVER.

Kings will own that ass for the next 20 years. Book it.

[BlazerRed]

Lakers will never win another championship

EVER.

Kings will own that ass for the next 20 years. Book it.
:coleman:

[ZMonkey11]

2004-2005 Detroit Pistons were probably the best team never to win it.

Robbed, Robbed I tell ya.

http://i.imgur.com/vlex4ML.jpg

[imdaman99]

I blame that loss on Peja Stojakovic. Dude was a mental stooge when it came to playing against the Lakers. Rick Fox would always shut him down, and this fker was wide open for 3 and shoots an airball??? I don't care if he had no legs (I think he was injured or came back from injury), when you're considered an elite shooter you make that shot half the time with your eyes closed. Can you imagine Kyle Korver or Ray Allen or Steph Curry shooting an airball on a wide open shot? No, I couldn't. But Peja was a mental midget, so of course it costs the rest of the team a title. Bibby was clutch as fk, Webber the best passing big man ever, Divac another great passing talent, Bobby Jackson the tough as nails off the bench, Doug Christie with elite defense and the scariest wife ever... that team deserved so much better.

Peja Stooj'akovic :facepalm

[Im Still Ballin]

At least not for the next 15 years anyways

It's Sacramento's time to shine. George Karl is one of the greatest coaches of all time

[Im Still Ballin]

I blame that loss on Peja Stojakovic. Dude was a mental stooge when it came to playing against the Lakers. Rick Fox would always shut him down, and this fker was wide open for 3 and shoots an airball??? I don't care if he had no legs (I think he was injured or came back from injury), when you're considered an elite shooter you make that shot half the time with your eyes closed. Can you imagine Kyle Korver or Ray Allen or Steph Curry shooting an airball on a wide open shot? No, I couldn't. But Peja was a mental midget, so of course it costs the rest of the team a title. Bibby was clutch as fk, Webber the best passing big man ever, Divac another great passing talent, Bobby Jackson the tough as nails off the bench, Doug Christie with elite defense and the scariest wife ever... that team deserved so much better.

Peja Stooj'akovic :facepalm
You forgot Sean Pollard

The man with many hairstyles

[Im Still Ballin]

2004-2005 Detroit Pistons were probably the best team never to win it.

Robbed, Robbed I tell ya.

http://i.imgur.com/vlex4ML.jpg
Good luck trying to contain the crisp and fluid 5 man passing game of the Kings

They were a once in a lifetime offense in the most defensive era of all time

Not to mention they were underrated defensively as well

[ZMonkey11]

Good luck trying to contain the crisp and fluid 5 man passing game of the Kings

They were a once in a lifetime offense in the most defensive era of all time

Not to mention they were underrated defensively as well

Oh well you know...The Pistons only took down the team that kept knocking SacTown out of the playoffs in years prior. For the championship.

You know...the team that starts with an L and made ya'll look like Queens?

[Im Still Ballin]

Oh well you know...The Pistons only took down the team that kept knocking SacTown out of the playoffs in years prior. For the championship.

You know...the team that starts with an L and made ya'll look like Queens?
More like a broken down, Kobrick version. Nothing compared to the 3peat lakers.

And game 6 was rigged

[warriorfan]

Basically you bandwagoned the Kings 15 years ago and coincidentally fell off of it when they started sucking and now you are crawling back.


:yaohappy:

[Young X]

'89 Lakers went 11-0 in the playoffs before Magic and Scott got injured. Could've possibly 3-peated if they stayed healthy.

[Im Still Ballin]

I've put you on my ignore list

Stop ****ing following me

[Im Still Ballin]

'89 Lakers went 11-0 in the playoffs before Magic and Scott got injured. Could've possibly 3-peated if they stayed healthy.
Weak defense era though

Sac 02' was in the near peak of defense quality

[ZMonkey11]

More like a broken down, Kobrick version. Nothing compared to the 3peat lakers.

And game 6 was rigged

erm....I dunno. I think the odds of the Pistons winning in 2004 were astronomical. According Kobestans, Kobe was still in the middle of his 14 year prime. Shaq still commanded double teams. Phil Jackson was still smashing the Buss. With Karl Malone and Gary Payton chomping at the bits. Didn't see the Kings fighting through that.

BUT, the Pistons didn't have to deal with Robert Horry. This is true.

[Legends66NBA7]

From not that long ago ?

05/06 Spurs.

[ZMonkey11]

'89 Lakers went 11-0 in the playoffs before Magic and Scott got injured. Could've possibly 3-peated if they stayed healthy.

Nah brah. It was the Pistons time. If the refs weren't siding it for the Lakers in '88, The Pistons would have 3-peated. You gotta stay sharp man.

[Fork]

2011 Heat

[Young X]

Nah brah. It was the Pistons time. If the refs weren't siding it for the Lakers in '88, The Pistons would have 3-peated. You gotta stay sharp man.So you're saying the Lakers had no chance at all? Naaaah.

'84 Lakers
'88 Pistons
'89 Lakers
'92 Blazers
'93 Suns
'00 Blazers
'02 Kings
'12 Thunder
'13 Spurs

[ZMonkey11]

So you're saying the Lakers had no chance at all? Naaaah.

'84 Lakers
'88 Pistons
'89 Lakers
'92 Blazers
'93 Suns
'00 Blazers
'02 Kings
'12 Thunder
'13 Spurs

They lost their chance the minute they stepped in the building. BBBBBAAAAADDDDDD BOOOOOOOOYYYYSSSS. DDDDEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOIIIIIIII TTTTTTTTTTT BBBBBAAAAAAASSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKEEEEEETTTTTTTBBBBBBBBA AAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[Cold soul]

89 Lakers
02 Kings
93 Suns
08 Lakers
13 Spurs
12 Thunder

[LAZERUSS]

The two that most stand out...

The defending champion '68 Sixers, who despite losing HOFer Billy Cunningham to a wrist injury before the EDF's, and with other players, including Wilt, nursing an assortment of injuries, still jumped out to a 3-1 series lead against the Celtics. However, they lost two more starters in the fifth game, and would go on to lose a game seven by four points.

Here were the injury summaries...

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9328011&postcount=14

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9328006&postcount=13

A healthy Sixer squad likely repeats their '67 EDF romp over essentially that same Celtic team.


Then, the '84 Lakers.

In game one, they jumped out to a big lead, and led by 19 points in the 3rd quarter, before coasting to a 115-109 win.

In game two, LA led by two points, and had the ball with 18 secs left. Jams Worthy, with Magic standing a few feet away, for some unknown reason, thru a cross-court pass that the Celtics Gerald Henderson intercepted, which led to a tying layup. Boston went on to win in OT, 125-121.

The series shifted to LA, and in game three the Lakers just annihilated Boston, with a resounding 137-104 win.

In game four, the Lakers led by five points with 41 secs remaining. Magic and Worthy both missed FTs in those 41 secs, and Boston came back to tie the game, and then won in OT.

LA was a mere errant pass, and a missed FT from SWEEPING Boston.

Even Larry Bird commented after that series that the Lakers should have swept them.


LA did exact revenge the very next season, though. After completely surrendering game one in a 148-114 massacre, a 37 year old Kareem came alive, and dominated the entire Celtic front-line the rest of the series. The Lakers won four of the next five games, including a retribution game in LA with a 137-111 win, and then stomped Boston on their home floor in the clinching game six.

Two years later, the Lakers just pummeled the Celtics in six games, with three of the wins blow-outs.

Magic was a missed FT away from owning a 3-0 H2H record against Bird, and holding a 6-2 margin in rings.

[Marchesk]

The 72/73 Celtics won 68 games in the regular season with Cowens, Hondo, Don Nelson and Jo Jo White. They lost to that great Knicks team in 7 games in the ECF who beat the Lakers in 5 games in the finals.

[ClipperRevival]

2000 Blazers were freaken stacked. Had they won game 7 against LA, no doubt they would've beaten Indiana.

2000's Kings is another good shoutout. The 1990's Blazers were also pretty stacked.

[vtec_pwr]

95-96 Sonics

[NBAplayoffs2001]

2000 Trailblazers

[ClipperRevival]

I still think had the Lakers been healthy in 1989, they would've lost to the Pistons. It was the Piston's time. They took a healthy Lakers team to the absolute max the year before and that was with an injured Isiah in game 7.

[bballnoob1192]

this years warriors team. best offense and defense if they don't win.....

[kennethgriffin]

the best team never to win was also the best team never to play a single game

2012 Los Angeles Lakers

Phil Jackson:

PG - Chris Paul
SG - Kobe Bryant
SF - Ron Artest
PF - Josh Mcroberts
C - Andrew Bynum

[Marchesk]

the best team never to win was also the best team never to play a single game

2012 Los Angeles Lakers

Phil Jackson:

PG - Chris Paul
SG - Kobe Bryant
SF - Ron Artest
PF - Josh Mcroberts
C - Andrew Bynum

1986/87 Celtics:

PG - Ainge
SG - DJ
SF - Bird
PF - McHale
C - Parish

Bench - Bias

[ImKobe]

2012-13 Lakers

hire Phil & Shaw instead of MDA

Nash, Kobe, Dwight, Pau, Ron actually healthy

who gon' stop us?

[jbryan1984]

I loved that kings team. One of my all time non cavs favorite teams.

[nba_55]

2012-13 Lakers

hire Phil & Shaw instead of MDA

Nash, Kobe, Dwight, Pau, Ron actually healthy

who gon' stop us?

Chuckbe

[JohnMax]

2003-04 Spurs
2005-06 Spurs
2011-12 Spurs
2012-13 Spurs

They were robbed by the Refs and/or choked