Waste talent every year! Take a look at the five most disappointing teams in the NBA this season, the Grizzlies are on the list

With the improvement of basketball standards in the world, players who can still score in the NBA are even more popular, and this is undoubtedly good news for NBA teams. The improvement of the overall quality of players will naturally help them build their own teams. Especially in today's era, the influence of super giant games has been declining, but the importance of role players is getting higher and higher. Thunder is a good example. There is only Alexander, a real superstar in their team, but with their advantages such as rotation depth and lineup system, they have achieved the best record in team history of 68 wins. Now they also have great hopes to win the championship.

The rise of the Thunder has made many teams lose excuses. It turns out that teams without many giants can still succeed. On the other hand, although some teams in the league do not have players of Alexander's level, their record is really too bad, and they actually have no shortage of talented players. Not to mention winning the championship, at least they shouldn't be able to reach the playoffs every year. The five teams we have included next have all been very disappointing in recent years. It is unknown when they will rise at present.

5. Hornets

In the history of the Hornets, they have only a handful of times to enter the playoffs, especially since Kemba Walker left, they have fallen into a trough. However, the Hornets have selected talented young players over the years. Currently, in their lineup, all of which have 6 first-round picks selected by Hikaru himself, 4 of which are lottery picks, such as Ball, the 20-year Tanhua show and Miller, the 23-year No. 1 picks.

But even so, the rise of the Hornets still looks far away. The only season they have hope of making the playoffs in these years was the 2021-2022 season. That year, the team ranked tenth in the Eastern Conference with a record of 43 wins and 39 losses, but unfortunately they fell in the playoffs in the end. Since then, the Hornets have become the bottom-level team in the league, and this season they ranked second to the bottom in the East with a record of 19 wins and 63 losses.

Due to their poor record, the Hornets won the No. 6 draw this year. Considering that this year is the year of the draft, they still have the chance to choose a top talented player. However, people now have no expectations for the Hornets, and as the East is getting more and more popular, judging from their current lineup, the team's hope of entering the playoffs in the short term is infinitely close to zero.

4. Pelicans

Since the Pelicans were founded, they have never lacked top stars. For example, Paul and Davis are both top superstars in the league. Moreover, when Paul and Davis left the team, the league gave the Pelicans "compensation". After Paul left the team in 2011, the Pelicans won the No. 1 pick in 2012. After Davis left the team in 2019, they won the No. 1 pick in the same year. This time they also chose Tsai En, who was very optimistic at the time.

So after Tsai En entered the league, he spent most of his time recuperating. Although he does have a good talent, no matter how strong he is, if he can't play, everything is empty talk. Therefore, over the years, after the Pelicans entered the playoffs in 2022 and 2024, they were eliminated in the first round. This season, the Pelicans were ruined by injuries again. In the end, they could only rank second to last in the West with 21 wins. However, it was obvious that the Pelicans had not given up on Tsaien until now. The management still said that they would insist on building a team with him as the core in the future. In this way, fans who want to see the rise of the Pelicans will probably continue to be disappointed.

3.Suns

Since the Suns selected Booker in 2015, they have been firmly building the team with him as the core. During this period, after they traded to Paul in 2020, the Suns finally got a reward, and they reached the finals in 2021. As a result, not long after, the Suns broke up the lineup with their own hands. After a series of trades, Durant and Bills, the previous Suns had basically changed completely.

However, if you only look at the paper lineup, this Sun still has a good talent, so the outside world had very high expectations for them at the beginning. However, in recent years, the Suns not only failed to win the championship, but have been declining. They were eliminated in the second round in 2023 and swept in the first round in 2024. By this season, they did not even enter the playoffs. The Suns' Big Three have not been able to successfully complete the game, which has led to the team having to reorganize the lineup. However, since Bill holds the veto power of the deal, he has the greatest hope of staying in the team, who is the best.

The good news is that no matter how the Suns operate next, they basically have no room for decline. Whether it is trading Durant or Booker, as long as they can get some players who are more suitable for the current lineup, they may still recover.

2. Bulls

Bulls, led by Jordan, played the most glorious period in team history, but since then they have gradually fallen into a trough. Rose's arrival in the middle gave the bull hope, but he soon died of injury, and then the bull was completely ineffective. In the future, the Bulls couldn't even make the playoffs most of the time, and during this period they also traded teams with certain talent such as LaVine, but even so, the team's record still did not improve at all.

The Bulls' paper lineup still doesn't look bad this season. White and Giddy are both talented defenders. In addition, Vucevic, Pave and others also have a certain amount of ready-to-fighting ability. In this case, they also played a good offensive level. The Bulls' average score per game can also rank 6th in the league.. However, even so, the Bulls' regular season winning rate this season is still below 50%. Obviously, such a result is still a failure. The most important thing is that the Bulls still see no hope at the moment. Their only choice seems to be to continue to rebuild and strive to find the next team-building core as soon as possible.

1. The Grizzlies

As the only team on this list to make the playoffs this season, the Grizzlies appear here seem to be abrupt, but in fact, they are no less disappointing this season than other teams. Since entering the playoffs in 2021, fans have also seen their expectations for this Grizzlies, especially in the 2022 playoffs, they can play against the Warriors and make the outside world see their talents.

The Grizzlies suddenly experienced a decline afterwards. As the team leader, Morant must have to bear great responsibility. Not only did he not set an example, he kept causing trouble off the court, which led to his ban. For this season, Morant finally became honest, but the team suffered another wave of injuries. Later, during the regular season, he also cut off head coach Jenkins, who led the team out of the trough. From that moment on, the Grizzlies were doomed to fail this season.