Kings and Suns without a doubt. I'd also put an unpopular choice. How about the Early 200's Bucks with their big 3 of Ray Allen, Sam Cassell and Glenn Robinson? I remember them making the ECF and lost to either 76ers or Nets. I was a Ray fan back then, and loved Cassell since he was a former rocket. Also, let's do one of these threads for the 90's. With the Bulls around, there were tonnes of great teams to not win a title... Orlando, and our hated rivals Sonics and Jazz.
Kings, not close One team which few pick: Portland '00 (blew a 4th Q, 16 pt lead against the Lakers in Game 7) <script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.sports-reference.com/wg.fcgi?css=1&site=bbr&url=%2Fteams%2FPOR%2F2000.html&div=div_per_game"></script>
yeah, until i saw Fulgore's post i completely forgot about them. they played the lakers in the regular season when both teams had the same extremely good record (i think 46-11) and lost and didn't finish the regular season that well. but still that was a stacked team of above average players with no superstar. i guess they were actually closer to beating LA than sacramento (although that blown lead was almost all them while the kings had calls go against them). not sure where i'd rank them.
2000 Rockets 2001 Rockets 2002 Rockets 2003 Rockets 2004 Rockets 2006 Rockets 2007 Rockets 2008 Rockets 2009 Rockets 2010 Rockets 2011 Rockets 2012 Rockets 2013 Rockets Skipped the 2005 because of errbody getting injured and our star was Slowmile "Not So" Swift.
