NBA parity at an all-time excessive as five of eight closing playoff teams glean never won a championship

We make no longer know who goes to glean interaction the 2021 NBA championship, but we make comprehend or no longer it is both going to be a crew that hasn’t won a title rapidly, or a crew that is but to glean interaction one. Amongst the eight franchises left in the playoff list, finest three of them — the Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks — glean ever won a championship sooner than. Different five teams — the Utah Jazz, Phoenix Suns, Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Clippers and Denver Nuggets — glean never raised a title banner. Just a few the teams glean furthermore never even been to the Finals. 

So while some acquainted franchises are lacking from the postseason list this season, different organizations are getting an different to shine, which is frigid, and doubtlessly fair correct for the final health of the league. With that said, here’s a short inspect at the eight teams left in the NBA playoffs, and how prolonged or no longer it is been since their closing title and/or Finals appearance. 

Philadelphia 76ers

• Remaining NBA title: 1983 
  
  
• Remaining Finals appearance: 2001

Of the final teams closing, the Sixers glean won a title most only in the near previous — the final formula abet in 1983. That Sixers squad, led by Julius Erving and Moses Malone, swept the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals to make with a 12-1 playoff file. That stays the third-simplest single postseason file ever. Philadelphia has finest made it abet to the Finals once since then — in 2001, when the Allen Iverson-led Sixers misplaced to Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers in five video games. 

Milwaukee Bucks

• Remaining NBA title: 1971 
• Remaining Finals appearance: 1974

After the Sixers, the Bucks glean won a title most only in the near previous out of the final closing playoff teams. The Bucks won their lone title in 1971, after they swept the Baltimore Bullets in the Finals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became named Finals MVP in that sequence after furthermore successful the typical-season MVP award that same season. The Bucks made the Finals all over again in 1974, but they misplaced in seven video games to the Boston Celtics. They have not been abet since. 

Atlanta Hawks

• Remaining NBA title: 1958 (as St. Louis Hawks) 
• Remaining Finals appearance: 1961 (as St. Louis Hawks) 

The Hawks are the categorical different closing crew that has won a championship sooner than. The Hawks’ lone title came the final formula abet in 1958 after they bested the Celtics in six video games to articulate the title. At that point, the crew became located in St. Louis, as they glean been after they made the Finals all over again in 1960 and 1961. The Hawks glean never been abet to the Finals since engaging to Atlanta in 1968. 

Brooklyn Nets

• Remaining NBA title: N/A 
  
  
• Remaining Finals appearance: 2003

The Nets won a pair of titles in the ABA, but they glean been unable to make the identical for the reason that crew joined the NBA in 1976. They came shut a pair cases, as they made abet-to-abet Finals appearances in 2002 and 2003, but fell short every cases. The Lakers swept them in 2002, and the Spurs beat them in six video games the next season. 

Utah Jazz

• Remaining NBA title: N/A 
  
  
• Remaining Finals appearance: 1998 

The Jazz made two consecutive Finals appearances in 1997 and 1998 after they glean been led by the dynamic duo of Karl Malone and John Stockton, but misplaced to the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls every cases. The closest they’ve scheme since became after they obtained to the Western Conference finals in 2007. They misplaced to the San Antonio Spurs in five video games in that sequence. 

Phoenix Suns

• Remaining NBA title: N/A 
• Remaining Finals appearance: 1993 

Phoenix has made it to the NBA Finals two cases (1976, 1993), but misplaced every cases. In 1976, they misplaced to the Celtics in six video games, and in 1993 Jordan and the Bulls dispatched the Charles Barkley-led Suns squad in six. The Suns made it abet to the Western Conference finals three cases since then (2005, 2006, 2010), but fell making an attempt advancing at any time when. 

Denver Nuggets

• Remaining NBA title: N/A 
• Remaining Finals appearance: N/A

The Nuggets glean never won an NBA title, and they’ve if truth be told never even made it out of the Western Conference. The furthest they ever made it became closing season, after they misplaced the Lakers in five video games in the convention finals. 

Los Angeles Clippers

• Remaining NBA title: N/A 
• Remaining Finals Appearance: N/A 
  
  

No longer finest glean the Clippers never been to the NBA Finals, they’ve never even been to the Western Conference finals. They’ve reached the second round of the postseason on six separate times, but their bustle has ended there every and whenever.