This is how you construct an NBA champion

The recipe for an NBA champion is simple great players great coaches situational or injury luck and voila Larry O'Brien trophy tasting but let's take a closer look at the ingredients you need that angry stifling brick wall barbed wire hand in your face defense to win a championship if you look at the numbers since the advent of the three-point line every NBA champion average is out to have a top 5 defense.


In fact only two out of those last 35 NBA champs had regular-season defensive ratings outside of the top 10 that includes the 2001 Lakers who included Shaq who ate himself out of shape before playing himself into shape and suddenly they had the best defense in the playoffs and those scrappy little Angelenos finally want something oh yeah in another detail you take all 35 of those teams who have won the NBA championship.


Since 1980 you also get a top five offense sure sometimes you get a 94 Rockets team that's slow not terrific and shooting that's situational the 2004 Pistons who are basically playing four on five on offense and wrote a particularly angry team of defensive rhinos to the crown but those are blips fast bruising fun but a blip the literal biggest trend is simple in this championship teams are big 29 of the 35 teams to win since 1980 have had a Hall of Famer.


At the very least a multiple time all-star on the Block it doesn't matter if your sky hooking up and under or even giving a little bit of a dream shake no big crown congratulations on that flashy point guard all he is is the exclamation point at the end of the sentence written by the large humans but yes the asterisk here is this you can win without that guy like the best modern dynasty did


But only if his Airness is walking through that door you want to wait I can wait back to where we started though NBA champions really are like recipes they require the simple notions of timing and ingredients there really is no right way so get comfortable hope you're hungry.

source : sbnation