![]() ![]() The Lakers have 17 titles, the Clippers would be overjoyed with just one. When compared to their sister team in L.A., it’s just not a fair fight. Basically, this franchise, born in Buffalo and relocated from San Diego, has been perpetually stuck by a string of crummy luck and also bad personnel decisions. And it didn’t help when the Clippers constantly blew leads in the playoffs. Much has been the same lately, with injuries to George and Kawhi Leonard. Lob City became Robbed City a decade ago because of the untimely injuries to Blake Griffin and Chris Paul during their franchise heyday. And now Indiana seems years away from any championship buzz … unless they somehow pull off a “Hoosiers”-like miracle in the near future. Years later, Paul George was pretty solid, but those Pacer teams were a few stars too short against the Big Three Heat. Well, Reggie Miller and Rik Smits were pretty good, just not enough to beat Shaq and Kobe Bryant at the turn of the century. It’s a weird and uncomfortable reflection on team governor Michael Jordan, given his six championships as a player. ![]() Too many bad draft situations didn’t help - Emeka Okafor, Adam Morrison, Michael-Kidd Gilchrist and Cody Zeller were all top-10 picks. This second reincarnation of the Hornets (formerly the Bobcats, born 2004) has only made the playoffs three times (winning only three games total). And if you want to really go on a historical trip, the Nets’ first good chance at making title noise was lost when they sold Julius Erving to the Sixers at the ABA-NBA merger. Before that, Jason Kidd took the Nets to back-to-back Finals trips, only to see Tim Duncan and Shaq standing in his way. They convinced Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden to team up and have nothing to show for it, mainly because the one full year all three were together, injuries to Kyrie and Harden torpedoed those hopes. Give the Nets some love for trying, even if their most recent plan was faulty. Here’s the list of 10 dreamers and a brief summary describing why it hasn’t happened yet. Like, aren’t the odds ever in your favor? It’s hard from a fan standpoint, an organizational standpoint, a reputation standpoint and of course, just hard coming up short for so many years. Staying on this list is even harder, in so many ways. The Denver Nuggets removed themselves from the club that everybody’s trying to turn in their membership. That’s the round number of teams still looking for that first NBA championship. With Kevin Durant in tow for a full season, could 2023-24 be the year for the Suns to end their drought? ![]()
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