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I like doing previous rings winners I would have gone 10 but I'm not including the Superteam Warriors team.


By best I mean that they would win the most 7 game series between the rest of the canditates. Since series are largely based on matchups + total talent its unlikely any of these teams would sweep.

Here is another interesting debate. Rank the best players of those teams.

#1. Jokic

#2. Steph Curry
#3. Kawhi Leonard
#4. Giannis
INTERCHANGABLE
#5. Shai
#6. Lebron
#7. AD
#8. Jayson Tatum

Obviously biased but I think that Raptors team has a compelling case.

1. 2020 Lakers
2. 2024 Celtics
3. 2023 Nuggets
4. 2025 Thunder
5. 2022 Warriors
6. 2019 Raptors
7. 2021 Bucks

Removing everything the teams did prior to and since...

Celtics
Lakers
Raptors
Nuggets
Thunder
Warriors
Bucks

Celtics. best playoff record of any team (16-3). much better defensive team than 2023 nuggets and better offensively than thunder, lakers or raptors.

Curry’s performance and getting his 4th championship stand out to me of the options

Celtics then Raptors.

Anyone who votes Denver outs themselves as a delusional Jokic stan. That's inarguably one of the easiest paths to the championship in history.

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Maxthirty wrote:Celtics then Raptors.

I agree with this, I’m terms of being dominant over the in-season competition. However, in a head to head, I think 2019 Raptors beat 2024 Celtics.

MavsDirk41 wrote:Curry’s performance and getting his 4th championship stand out to me of the options

if it was best individual performance then Curry or Jokic would win. but rest of their teams were not as strong as most of the other teams on this list

I think we can definitely rank the Nuggets over the Thunder, given that they went seven this year with a worse roster. Likewise, the Lakers and Nuggets had a tough series in the bubble, so I’d put them roughly equal given that Denver improved that roster.

I’m going with the Celtics due to their postseason record that year.

mdonnelly1989 wrote:Here is another interesting debate. Rank the best players of those teams.

#1. Jokic

#2. Steph Curry
#3. Kawhi Leonard
#4. Giannis
INTERCHANGABLE
#5. Shai
#6. Lebron
#7. AD
#8. Jayson Tatum

I got:

1. Jokic
2. Giannis
3. LeBron
4. SGA
5. Kawhi
6. Curry
7. Tatum

2024 Celtics.

2020 Lakers
2019 Raptors
2021 Bucks
2024 Celtics
2023 Nuggets
2025 Thunder
2022 Warriors

2024 Celtics were the best overall team

What's interesting is the Celtics are the clear poll winners here, yet they are also the team on that list many said had the easiest path to win the ring.

I guess those scenarios both could be true. They had it easy, but also would have beat all the other teams.

1. Lakers
2. Raptors
3. Thunder
4. Celtics
5. Nuggets
6. Bucks
7. Warriors

2021 Bucks biased
2019 Raptors
2025 Thunder
2022 Warriors
2023 Nuggets
2024 Celtics
2020 Lakers