LeBron James
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Podcast Appearances
The 95 Rockets, the 04 Pistons, the 06 Heat, and the 21 Bucks.
What's interesting about those four teams is like,
they represent like an outlier for a lot of them when you go through them.
The 95 Rockets were the defending champs, and then they added Clyde Drexler in a mid-season trade.
The 04 Pistons, they were a good team, but they added Rasheed Wallace at the trade deadline.
The 06 Heat, a little different.
They had like a hot streak from an emerging superstar in D. Wade.
At the exact moment the Lakers were sort of falling apart because they just traded Shaquille O'Neal to the Miami Heat.
And then finally, the 21 bucks.
It's the second year of the COVID summer, so it was just sort of an odd one.
Paul Flannery made note, though, the Celtics could be the fifth team that would make sense as an outlier if you added Jason Tatum.
So they didn't hit the 40-20 mark.
They're right there anyway.
But, you know, you add him here to the mix, and like you said, it's a full siren.
Especially in an Eastern Conference that looks open.
So it changes people's expectations.
I thought it was a great point from Flannery there that maybe, maybe, maybe they could be fifth team here since 1980 to do it, to win it all without hitting the 40-20.