What are the best NBA teams of the last five years that did not win a title?

More importantly to most of you reading this, which among them were versions of the Boston Celtics?

What are the best NBA teams of the last five years that did not win an NBA championship? More importantly to most of you reading this, which among them were versions of the Boston Celtics? According to Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey, three of the last ten such teams happened to be an iteration of the storied ball club.

To evaluate these ball clubs in terms of their contend-ability with regards to what we might otherwise expect from such a team, the B/R analyst uses four key metrics: Simple Rating System (SRS), Relative Offensive Rating (Rel ORtg), Relative Defensive Rating (Rel DRtg), and Win Percentage (W%). These metrics help rank and sort the teams over the last five seasons.

Let’s take a look at where each of the trio of Celtics squads made the final cut.