Drafting Our Favorite Championship Teams Since 2000!

So here's the genesis of this.

There's nothing going on in the NBA, and around this time last year Chris and I did a draft of our favorite teams from, like, the last 20 years or something, whatever, wherever we cut it off, to not make the NBA finals.

And people loved it.

It was a great nerd out, a great stroll down memory lane.

And this year we're stepping it up.

Here's the draft we're gonna do.

Our favorite NBA champions, single season NBA champions from 2000 until today.

Favorite means whatever you want.

We're only gonna draft 15 of the 27, 'cause we just don't have time and also it's gonna make people mad when their teams are not drafted, which is gonna be great.

And we're gonna go in snake order.

House has been given, by me, the number one pick since, since his debut.

CR, you asked to go second instead of third, so I will go third and then fourth.

And there are 27 teams, and just for trivia's sake, of the 27, here's how they divide up.

The Lakers have six of the 27, the Spurs and Warriors four each, the Heat three, the Celtics two, and then one a piece for Cleveland, Detroit, Oklahoma City, New York, Toronto, Dallas, Milwaukee, and Denver.

Do we have any questions before we put House on the clock?

I'm all good.

I'm sure I'm gonna get this wrong, so my only question is, is to beg for forgiveness.

[laughs]

Again, only since 2000.

Right.

Favorite can mean whatever you want.

It could be your favorite player, it could be a favorite moment, it could be a, a favorite games, it could be the difficulty of their path there, it could be whatever you want.

So Joe House, you get to go first.

The number one pick in our favorite NBA champions draft since 2000, which is loosely post-Jordan, is who?