Thunder ended their NBA Nominal drought, but these teams are still waiting

The Oklahoma City Thunder are your 2024-2025 NBA Champions after survival Pacer The team who pushed them on seven games. One of the fascinating aspects of this series, even outside the matches themselves, was it a match between two teams in the middle of decades of cut championships.

The last time Thunder was Champs, they were Seattle Supersonics: It happened in 1979. years, 46 years and decades before the team moved to Oklahoma. And Pejčani? While three occasions in the basketball association on three occasions – 1970, ’72 and ’73 were still raised by Larry O’Brien trophy.

Thunder’s drought is over, while that PenIs crossed to the second year: now it was 49. Since Pacy joined the NBA, and even longer than that if you want to return before the ABA / NBA. Only focusing on NBA history, however, the Pager Championship in the smaller championship ranks “only” seventh longest in league, related to Brooklyn Networkswhich is similar to the NBA 1976. years.

Here are six teams waiting for more than secressed (and networks) for your NBA title.

Utah Jazz: 51 years old

Karl Malone and John Stockton made faces like these often against bulls over two years of NBA finals. (Photo Daniel Lippitt / AFP via Getty Images)

The Jazz He joined the NBA in 1974. year, as a team of spreading from New Orleans. Their top player in these early days was Pete Maravich, but it was not enough almost: Jazz will move to Utah in 1979. years and would not first make playoffs until the 1983-1984 playoff. Jazz chose John Stockton in the draft in 1984. year with a 16-total election and Karl Malone, and greatly thank you for the presence of these two halls known, Jazz will play the playoffs every year to the playoffs.

Utah brought to the NBA Final and in 1997. and 1998. years, with 64-18 and 64-20 season and would lose in Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan in both cases. Utah has not returned to the NBA final since then, and in the 2024-2025 season, he published the worst record in the league, at 17-65. To add an insult to injury, despite having the best chances of draft lotteries, Dallas Mavericks They won the first-overall choice in the NBA draft NBA, while Jazz had to settle no. 5.

New York Knicks: 52 years

The last best chance of the Knicks to win the NBA finals encountered a Hakeema Olajuvon’s rocket, but New York Lost Games 6 and 7. Finals in 1999. years were almost so close. (Photo John Biever / Sports Illustrated Via Getti Images)

The Knicks She had the opportunity to delete these stripes in this playoffs, but lost in the final conference in Penjac in six games. Unlike jazz, they have actually won: Knicks were the last champions in 1973. year, their second title in four seasons, with both teams led by the Frazier Valt Frazier.

Knicks would not return to the NBA final until 1994. years, and Patrick Eving their great star. Would lose games 6 and 7 in RocketsHowever. Match 6 ends with the Hakeem Olajuvon’s racket center, by locking 86-84 victories, and forcing the game 7, which matched only 2-18 from the field in the game that wedges lost only six points.

New York would bring it back in 1999. years SpurBut he would lose 4-1, putting them on the opposite side of the first championship in San Antonio NBA. Knicks brought it twice on the Eastern Conference of the final, but not further.

Los Angeles rods: 55 years old

The thumbnices of 2020-2021 forced the game 6 in Los Angeles behind Paul George 41 points and 13 rebounds, but did not have answers to the Suns’ offense in the decisive competition, who lost 130-103. (Photo Harry How / Getty Images)

The Clipters They never won the NBA name, 55 years old. They brought them in the league in 1970. year as the courage of buffalo before moving to San Diego in 1977, where they were renamed the scissors. In 1984. years, the sliders moved again, in Los Angeles, becoming another team in the city in several ways than one. While Lakers They won additional nine championships than ’84, when the pistons came to Los Angeles, the pistons pulled out at exactly one Western Conference of the finals, with the performances of Zero NBA finals.

It is not that the pistons were bad late, either: Playoffs made 13 times during this century, including four of the last five years and 12 times since 2011-2012. They simply failed to overcome the challenges of the Western conference, they were lost from Likes Nuggets On several occasions, last year’s Western Conference Finals represent Maverike, Sun In 2021. Western Conference Final and defeat in the hands of Western Champ Champ Champ Warriors.

Phoenix Suns: 57 years old

Charles won the NBA MVP for the 1992-1993 season, but the sun still could not stop bullocks in the finals. (Photo John V. McDonough / Sports Illustrated Via Getti Images)

The sun was in the NBA in 1968. They entered the expansion team almost from the gate: they ended up in the next six years, and brought it to the 1976 NBA final. Year, and brought it to the 1976 NBA finals. Years. However, they would lose Kelterice in six games, though, and would not do it far to ’93, when Jordanian bulls won the third NBA name in a row.

After defeating the clip to cross the finals 2021. year, the sun finally appeared in a team that was not part of the historical dynasty. However, that team still had Giannis Antetokounpowhich was average over 35 points per game in order to bring Bucks Return from 2-0 to four in a row and their first NBA Championship since 1971. years, ending its own drought.

2025. The Phoenix first missed the playoff of 2019-2020 season, and then traded star Kevin Durant on rockets for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and six drawings, including the selection of missile redistribution “2025 years. They are the oldest NBA franchise that would never win the championship once.

Atlanta Hawks: 67 years

Hawks once beat the Celtic of Bill Russell once, in the 1958 NBA final. Year, but then never others, nor any others, again. (Getty)

Before they were Atlanta HawksThey were st. Louis Hawks. They were Milwaukee Hawks and three cities in years before moving to St. Louis, but it’s that moving in St. Louis 1955. year, because here in the NBA’s in the NBA, it’s in the NBA stained Boston Celtics In six games.

To put in perspective as long as it was, Tommy Heinsohn and Bill Russell was in that Celtic. Boob Cours was 18 years old, and Russell ended with more rings than he called his career. Hawks? They have 1958. years. They arrived again in the finals and in 1960. and 1961, but that is about everything.

The team moved to Atlanta and the Eastern Conference for the 1968 season. Years and did not bring it to the NBA finals since: they arrived until the Eastern Conference Finals in 2015. years, when they lost CavaliersAnd again in 2021. years, when Antetokoun Empoovi came on their way to end the minor championship. Atlanta missed the playoffs in both past two years.

Sacramento Kings: 74 years

Skramento Kings 2022-2023 recorded the longest post-season dries in the history of the NBA long enough to lose in Steph Curri and warriors. (Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)

Unlike the sun, slider and jazz, Kings have won the NBA Championship. The problem is that the existence of any of these teams, as well as the ABA. The kings were in 1945. Joined the National Basketball League, where they were known as Rochester Royals – they were half-pro-team for more than two decades. They joined the Basketball Association of America in 1948. year with three other NBL teams, and then NBL and Baa merged into the NBA before the 1949 season. Years.

Still known as Rochester Royals at this point, I would defeat Knicks in 1951. years due to the first NBA Championship … which has since turned out to be theirs only NBA Championship. Despite this the benefits of the NBA itself, it is also a lonely franchise lonely look of the NBA final. They would move to Cincinnati for the 1957 season. Year, and then in Kansas City-Omaha – where they were renamed the kings – 1972. years. They would only become Kings of Kansas City in 1975. year, and then moved to Sacramento in 1985. years, where they had since. At that time, two Western conferences lost at the time – 1981. years until the rocket, and in 2002. years to the washer – but that’s it.

From the season 2006-2007 to 2021-2022, the kings did not reach the playoffs, the longest drought in the history of the league. This briefly cracked the exit from the first round against Warriors 2023. years, despite the kings who are third seeds in the west and warriors of the sixth. They missed players in the last two seasons – just missed 46-36 records in crowded field in 2023-2024, and then ended again in the ninth, but below .500 this last season.

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