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Tougher Road To a Championship: 95 Rockets or 11 Mavericks

Tougher Road To a Championship: 95 Rockets or 11 Mavericks

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5th Letter said:
I was asking about the Lakers. You said they weren’t as good.

That was the era. You have a star and role players that fit around those stars. Decent players for their time.
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Lamar Odom >>> every player on the jazz outside of the obvious 2

Andrew Bynum >>> every player outside of the obvious 3

Meta world peace is locking up hornacek
 



According to research in which we looked at every team’s path to their eventual championship wins (we only examined champions who had to win four playoff series during their postseason runs), Hakeem Olajuwon’s 1994-95 Houston Rockets had the toughest road ever to winning a title.
The worst team they beat had a 57-25 record, and that was their Finals opponent, the Orlando Magic, who boasted a lineup featuring Shaquille O’Nealand Penny Hardway, amongst many valuable role players.
On top of that, the Rockets won four series without having home-court advantage, an almost impossible feat to even fathom, let alone pull off. Houston’s road was made that tough due to the fact that they went 47-35 that regular season, a disappointing campaign prior to the playoffs. The Rockets beat two teams in the Utah Jazz (60-22) and the San Antonio Spurs (62-20) that won at least 60 games, and a third, the Phoenix Suns (59-23) that came within one win of reaching that benchmark.
 
Rockets won the Chip in Jordanless years then beat the best default team in the East. Mavs beat a team initially assembled to cheat their way to a chip through loopholes and beat a top 3 all time player in LeBron in his prime.
 
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