NBA Teams that were still good without their best Player: #nba

NBA Teams that were still good without their best Player: #nba

NBA Teams that were still Good 1 season after losing their Best Player:

The Most famous example of this is the 1994 Bulls without Michael Jordan. After Jordan suddenly announced his Retirement after the 1993 Championship season, they went 55-27 compared to their 93 record of 57-25, and they made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Semifinals and lost in a tough 7 games to the Knicks.

Next is the 2020 Toronto Raptors after losing Kawhi Leonard in the 2019 Free Agency market. Yes the 2019 Raptors won the Championship, but the 2020 Raptors still went 53-19 which was a 73.6% Win Percentage, and if this was a full 82 game season they would have been on pace to win 60 games.

The 2019 Boston Celtics lead by Kyrie Irving finished 49-33 and made it to the 2nd round of the NBA Playoffs, 1 season later in 2020 Kyrie went to the Brooklyn Nets and the 2020 Celtics finished with a record of 48-24, and made it deeper in the playoffs: All the weather to the Conference Finals losing to Jimmy Butler and the Heat.

In 2019, Paul George finished 3rd in MVP Voting, and lead the Thunder to 49-33 season, then the Thunder made the trade that actually started their SGA ERA, sending him to the Clippers, the Thunder were expecting to tank that first season in 2020, but to everyone’s surprise they finished 44-28 and still made the playoffs thanks to Chris Paul.