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Wild NBA status perfectly captures the recent history of a team – especially the wizards

Wild NBA status perfectly captures the recent history of a team – especially the wizards

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The all-NBA teams were unveiled this week, and no magicians made the cut or were given voices at all. When the teams were unveiled, I scroll through the ruins of Twitter, while on the clock I came across a current post at work that had blew me up.

Someone had put together a list of the last all NBA team selection of every NBA team, and I have never seen such a precise snapshot of the recent history of every team in the league.

Only a few entries on the list surprised me. The latest selection of the first team in Brooklyn Nets was Jason Kidd in 2004 when the team was still in New Jersey, which means that Kevin Durant had never broken the first team in Brooklyn.

In fact, Durant mainly made a single all NBA team in Brooklyn (second team) and has not had the first team since 2018, his second last season with the Warriors.

The Toronto Raptors have it too never Had an all-NBA first team player, which makes sense for the team's medium-sized history … beyond the fact that annual Kawhi Leonard tore through the league in 2019. When I think of the 2019 NBA season, I think of Kawhi Leonard, but he only managed to crack the second team this year.

Two other teams have never had an all-NBA first team player, although they are the two that they would reasonably suspect.

The Indiana Pacers are one because they were a consistently good NBA team throughout their history, but they were always defined more by depths than at the highest talent. The Charlotte Hornets are the others and … Yup. In fact, no hornets did that at all second Team since Glen Rice in 1997.

I cannot say that I was surprised by the team that has the longest drought for the first team selection (except the three who have never had one before). As well All-rookie selection exactly Sum the recent history of the magicians, the fact that Washington was the last all-NBA selection of all-NBA first teams in 1979, the almost half a century of the franchise company to be equipped on “Pretty Good”.

In fact, only one magician even did that All-NBA Second team In the 21st century: Gilbert Arenas during the 2007 season.

I recently wrote About how the Pacers built their team and what the wizards can learn from them. The fact that Indiana has never It is a calming idea for a Wizards team who is still missing a franchise player who is currently designed, a first team player who is currently on the abyss of the NBA final.

Perhaps this franchise player will appear in one of the upcoming designs in which the wizards will surely be high for some consecutive years. Or maybe a Tyresian Haliburton is waiting out there to be picked by another team.

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