Having finished our Eastern Conference review of the best teams in franchise history, we now turn West.  Our first Western division is the Southwest, which gives us the teams of Texas, all of which have fun histories, as well as the less ballyhooed recent expansion teams (and recently moved franchises) in Vancouver/Memphis and Charlotte/New Orleans.  As always, our standard of review for this series of articles can be found here.  Now let's get to it...  Dallas Mavericks  -Kyle's Best … [Read more...] about Best Team In Franchise History: Southwest Division

We now turn to one of the "new fangled" divisions, the Southeast, which was created to accommodate the expansion Charlotte Bobcats and even out the divisions (in case you missed it, an explanation of our "best" inquiry can be found here).  Aside from Charlotte, the division contains two old franchises (Atlanta and Washington) and two newer guys (Miami and Orlando).  The division lacks the obvious compelling best in franchise debates that we see in many of the other divisions but there may be … [Read more...] about Best Team In Franchise History: Southeast Division

Continuing with our divisional tour of best teams by franchise, we come to the Central Division, where we have some tough choices to consider.  If you're interested in the parameters of our discussion and our standard of review, you can check out the intro here.  But going forward, we get to look a pretty fun bunch of franchises, all of whom had several different years of success to measure against each other... … [Read more...] about Best Team In Franchise History: Central Division

Sure, we have the Olympics to keep us quasi-interested in basketball this summer but usually we like to get a bit historical in the summers.  In particular, we like to play with the usual unanswerable (and sometimes irrelevant) questions that we all think about.  This summer we'll tackle the question of which team is the best in each franchise's history.  This question is complicated on several levels.  First, you have to define "best."  Obviously, winning a title may seem like a pre-requisite … [Read more...] about Best Team In Franchise History: Atlantic Division