The Portland Trail Blazers famously won the 1977 NBA Championship behind Bill Walton, Maurice Lucas, and Head Coach Jack Ramsay, imprinting their homespun, all-for-one culture on the basketball landscape. The Blazers just as famously have not won a title since, 48 years of falling short.
Along the way there were blips and blurps of success. Portland returned to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992 behind Clyde Drexler and company, losing to the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, respectively. Rasheed Wallace and his traveling All-Star Team made the Western Conference Finals in 2000, famously pushing Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant to seven games, leading by double-digits in the deciding contest before surrendering that edge, and the eventual title, to the Lakers.