Greatest (over)hyped team to never sniff a NBA finals?

[Primetime]

Right now the Clippers are going through that reflection stage by writers and pundits about "what went wrong", "why Lob City failed", etc etc.

Obviously I'll always remember Lob City for the choke against the Thunder and Rockets in back to back playoffs. But I can't talk shyt though because I'll remember the T-Mac/Yao era for that choke against the Jazz in game 7 at home... and blowing the 0-2 lead vs the Mavs in year 1.

And T-Mac getting hurt in '09 when we may have had the most stacked team if healthy (took LA to 7 in round 2, with Yao literally breaking his foot to get us in position).

Basically, for both teams, a lot of hype that just ended in disappointment

Which team of the last 15-20 years has been the biggest disappointment? I don't care if it was due to injuries or choke jobs or all the above, but a team you look back at like "How the hell did this not work out? "

or, alternatively "I knew they weren't shyt "

 

[King Poetic]

Nash Suns and Melo nuggets

 

[Fortunate Lee]

Cavs 09
Suns Nash era

 

[Dwight Howard]

Steve Nash
Joe Johnson
Quentin Richardson
Shawn Marion
Amare Stoudemire

damn near perfect lineup

 

[Brandon M.]

none of them teams was beating the spurs or Lakers

 

[Alexander The Great]

12 lakers

 

[El Poyo Loco]

02-04 Kings I give a pass to their games where rigged when they had the Lakers beat

Nash and the Suns had all that fire power and nothing to show for it

 

[Dwight Howard]

12 lakers

The Heat were the favorites that year I believe

 

[The Fire]

the later lebron years during his first cavs stint. the cavs were still garbage but bron was getting handled by the magic and Celtics

 

[Damnshow]

suns easily

 

[Primetime]

Steve Nash
Joe Johnson
Quentin Richardson
Shawn Marion
Amare Stoudemire

damn near perfect lineup

I don't know what the advance stats say, but I always felt that was the best iteration of that team. The very next year Joe John bounced and Stoudemire's knees broke down.

It's a shame Joe Johnson fractured his face before that Spurs series, although it'd still be hard to go against the Spurs given how they were playing.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

NBA purposely didn't want Sactown winning over the Lakers as @El Poyo Loco said they get a pass

 

[Tide Run This]

02-04 kings

 

[KOBE]

Steve Nash
Joe Johnson
Quentin Richardson
Shawn Marion
Amare Stoudemire

damn near perfect lineup

Give that another few years and they probably would have made the finals. Their owner got cheap and JJ bounced and they were never the same talent wise. Adding a Joe Johnson was all it would have taken.

 

[Primetime21]

I voted Suns because at least 4 of these teams were not over hyped