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Who do you have as the worst teams ever to make it to the NBA Finals and where do you have these Dallas Mavericks ranked at?

1. Miami Heat 2023
2. Dallas Mavericks 2024
3. ?
4. ?

All that talk about a stacked Western Conference and this is the best they can put up in the finals? A Knicks team with 50% of their roster could have fared better.

2023 Heat were worse.

Nets 2002.

You think Minnesota would have been better? Dallas may have been worn down for what they had to deal with while Boston had an easy path.

JordansBulls wrote:You think Minnesota would have been better? Dallas may have been worn down for what they had to deal with while Boston had an easy path.

Minny clearly isn't ready.

Those teams the Lakers beat in the early 2000s were easily the worst.

The 78 Bullets.

Some recency bias in this thread.

JordansBulls wrote:You think Minnesota would have been better? Dallas may have been worn down for what they had to deal with while Boston had an easy path.

Yet they played Boston tougher than the Mavs did?

2020 Miami Heat is the weakest finals team that i can remember recently

Imagine a Clippers fan making this thread.

Trying to clown on the Mavs.

Big Lob wrote:Some recency bias in this thread.

lol, just a little bit

SuperDeluxe wrote:Nets 2002.

That Nets team would sweep this one.

Lmao, I always cringe when people who clearly don't know even semi-recent NBA history make threads like this.

2000 Sixers:
G 11 Bell, Raja 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 204 lb (93 kg) 1976–09–19 FIU
G/F 23 Buford, Rodney 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 189 lb (86 kg) 1977–11–02 Creighton
G 12 Claxton, Speedy 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) 166 lb (75 kg) 1978–05–08 Hofstra
C 52 Geiger, Matt 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 243 lb (110 kg) 1969–09–10 Georgia Tech
F/C 40 Hill, Tyrone 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 240 lb (109 kg) 1968–03–19 Xavier
G 3 Iverson, Allen 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 165 lb (75 kg) 1975–06–07 Georgetown
F 33 Jones, Jumaine 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 218 lb (99 kg) 1979–02–10 Georgia
F 9 Lynch, George 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 218 lb (99 kg) 1970–09–03 North Carolina
C 50 MacCulloch, Todd 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 280 lb (127 kg) 1976–01–27 Washington
G/F 8 McKie, Aaron 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 209 lb (95 kg) 1972–10–02 Temple
F 7 McLeod, Roshown 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 221 lb (100 kg) 1975–11–17 Duke
C 55 Mutombo, Dikembe 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) 245 lb (111 kg) 1966–06–25 Georgetown
G 5 Ollie, Kevin 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 1972–12–27 Connecticut
G 4 Sánchez, Pepe 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 1977–05–08 Temple
G 20 Snow, Eric 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1973–04–24 Michigan State

JordansBulls wrote:You think Minnesota would have been better? Dallas may have been worn down for what they had to deal with while Boston had an easy path.

Bro I've been saying this for two weeks. People acting like Boston ripping through the East was a negative. They came into the finals pamper fresh

Every Lakers team in history is tied for first.

Only the 2001 Sixers are worse than this Mavs Finals team. This is really bad.