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LeBron James

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Appearances Over Time

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The Drop | Ranking NBA Contenders

The 95 Rockets, the 04 Pistons, the 06 Heat, and the 21 Bucks.

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The Drop | Ranking NBA Contenders

What's interesting about those four teams is like,

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they represent like an outlier for a lot of them when you go through them.

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The 95 Rockets were the defending champs, and then they added Clyde Drexler in a mid-season trade.

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The 04 Pistons, they were a good team, but they added Rasheed Wallace at the trade deadline.

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The 06 Heat, a little different.

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They had like a hot streak from an emerging superstar in D. Wade.

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At the exact moment the Lakers were sort of falling apart because they just traded Shaquille O'Neal to the Miami Heat.

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And then finally, the 21 bucks.

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Weird times.

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It's the second year of the COVID summer, so it was just sort of an odd one.

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Paul Flannery made note, though, the Celtics could be the fifth team that would make sense as an outlier if you added Jason Tatum.

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So they didn't hit the 40-20 mark.

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They're close.

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They're right there anyway.

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But, you know, you add him here to the mix, and like you said, it's a full siren.

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Yeah.

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Especially in an Eastern Conference that looks open.

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So it changes people's expectations.

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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.