Top 10 NBA Franchises all-time

[QUOTE=gengiskhan][B]I like to rank CHI below SAS[/B]

SAS is a class franchise with winning tradition.

CHI is a PATHETIC franchise that deliberately destroyed 7th ring chances.

SAS cares about their all-timers be it Duncan, D'rob etc etc.

CHI is a selfish, hate filled franchise that dont want their all-timers anywhere close to franchise's success.


Both franchises may have 100% winning record in NBA finals

BUT

SAS is just better franchise overall.


No superstar for long time ever wanted to play for CHI after 1998 especially if you are Kevin Garnett or T-mac.[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna agree even AS a Bulls fan. Chicago basically had a flare up that lasted as long as MJ was there.

[QUOTE=RagaZ]1. Celtics
2. Lakers
3. Spurs
4. Bulls
5. Knicks[/QUOTE]

How are you going to have knicks over detroit, rockets,and even the heat.

1)Boston
2)LA
3)Spurs
4)Philly
5)Chicago
6)Miami
7)Detroit
8)NYK
9)Dallas
10)Cleveland (we've had a lot of good players/playoffs but no titles

The Lakers are clearly above Boston.

LA
Boston
Chicago
San Antonio
Philadelphia
Detroit
Miami
New York
Houston
Washington

[QUOTE=TonyMontana]I agree with this. Sixers dont get a lot of love, but from the 60s to the 80s this team was right there with LAL and Boston. Franchise has never been the same since they traded Moses though. They had Wilt in the 60s, DrJ in the 70s, and Moses in the 80s. Then they had Barkley and Iverson during their primes who are really polarizing athletes that will be remembered for a while.

The Bulls are pretty much all Jordan, I don't see the franchise itself as anything special. I'd put the Spurs over them. I think the team has had one losing season in like 30 years? George Gervin, D-rob, Duncan.

I think the Heat are top 5 too despite being a young franchise. Pat Riley has built 3 completely different contenders since he came over in the 90s. Mourning-Hardaway, Wade-Shaq, and now LeBron and co.

1. Lakers
2. Celtics
3. Sixers
4. Spurs
5. Heat[/QUOTE]
This...Plus the fact that the Sixers had two(2) of the best ever 1 season teams of all time, the 1967 Wilt led team, and the 1983 Doc and Moses team that overwhelmed the NBA by winning 50 of it's first 57 regular season games then going 12-1 in the playoffs.

1. Lakers
2-30. who cares

[QUOTE=JimmyMcAdocious]Suns are in the top 10.[/QUOTE]
Yeah they have the 4th highest winning percentage all-time in the league only behind the Lakers, Celtics, and Spurs, whom most people consider to be the top 3 franchises in the league. That has to count for something. They just win games. When you consider the fact that they've been around since the 1960's, that shows you just how consistently good of a team they've been over the years.

Sure they haven't won any championships yet, but championships are overrated, especially old championships that barely any modern fans were alive to remember. What the hell is a championship to you if you don't remember it happening? Championships ARE a great memory though, sure, but people act like nothing matters BUT them. I don't know about those guys, but I enjoy watching wins on a regular basis. I'd much rather watch a team that rarely ever has losing seasons than a team that has a losing all-time record and struggles to get winning seasons but won a championship(s) decades ago when I probably wasn't even alive yet or was too young to remember it.

I feel more spoiled as a Suns fan than I'd be if I were, say, a Knicks fan. I'd keep all of the winning Seasons the Suns have consistently had over the years compared to 2 NBA championships in the early 70s when I wasn't born but sucking consistently the majority of most decades since then. lol If a team averages 0.600 over the course of 10 years compared to a team averaging 0.400 over the course of 10 years, that's 164 extra games that the fans of the 0.600 team got to enjoy over those years. That's 164 more nights that the fans went to sleep with a smile on their face.

Anyways, the Suns definitely have had some serious bad luck over the years when it comes to their championship caliber teams. They were 1 clutch 3-point shot by John Paxton away from sending MJ's GOAT Bulls team to a Game 7 in Phoenix in the 1993 finals. That's way more impressive than a lot of teams finals who won the championship. For example, the 2007 Finals which the Suns would've easily swept just like the Spurs if it weren't for Tim Donaghy and the refs trying to fix the game for the Spurs then Diaw and Stoudemire getting suspended in the WCF over some stupid shit that Robert Horry instigated, when the Suns had the momentum before the stupid suspensions.

From my attempted Top 30:

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1. Los Angeles Lakers
2. Boston Celtics
3. San Antonio Spurs
4. Chicago Bulls
5. Philadelphia 76ers
6. Detroit Pistons
7. Miami Heat
8. Houston Rockets
9. New York Knicks
10. Portland Trailblazers


All subject to change.

[QUOTE=mr.big35]How are you going to have knicks over detroit, rockets,and even the heat.[/QUOTE]

Sixers too.

Are the Magic in the bottom 10 worst franchises?

[QUOTE=BlackVVaves]Are the Magic in the bottom 10 worst franchises?[/QUOTE]

Either bottom 15 or bottom 20.

[QUOTE=HeatFanSince88]Heat > Bulls. Owned them in 2011 and owning them this year too. Other than Jordan Bulls history is terrible. Heat have been an elite NBA franchise apart from their first few years as an expansion team.



Try again kid.

MJ is the only reason why they know what basketball is.

Nobody gives a **** about the Bulls as a franchise though. They just rode one player and were irrelevant for the other 40 years.[/QUOTE]

Take away The Decision and Miami has one rinky-dink title that is widely considered the biggest robbery in Finals history. The worst NBA champion as well.'See what I did there?

Pre-LeBron, the Heat were elite from 96-97 to 99-00, and then 04-05 to 05-06. They were weak sauce the rest of their history.