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Teams who won it all even after their star went down?

Not the team star but 99 rams Trent green went down pre-season rams had to turn to some no name arena leaguer.

88 dodgers gibson was nl mvp that year but only made on plate appearance in the ws.

Ohio St loses jt Barrett to injury vs Michigan, cardale Jones lead them to big ten title the next week, then beats Alabama in The cfp
Semis and Oregon in the title game.
 
Braves losing Acuna. A big loss but I don’t follow them enough to know if he was easily considered their biggest star or just a major piece
 
cwh20 said:
Braves losing Acuna. A big loss but I don’t follow them enough to know if he was easily considered their biggest star or just a major piece
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Yes. Easily their biggest star. This is a great one
 
Sox lost Nomar Garciaparra, first to injury and later traded, in 2004. Nomar was easily the 'Sox best all around player and a face of the franchise from 1998 (if not earlier) up to that point.
 
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Husky25 said:
Sox lost Nomar Garciaparra, first to injury and later traded, in 2004. Nomar was easily the 'Sox best all around player and a face of the franchise from 1998 (if not earlier) up to that point.
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Those glove adjustments - BoSox had their own "human rain delay" in Nomar.
 
Last year, Dodgers lost Kershaw before the playoffs and somehow managed to beat the Yankees in the World Series.
 
blkknight1 said:
Not the team star but 99 rams Trent green went down pre-season rams had to turn to some no name arena leaguer.

88 dodgers gibson was nl mvp that year but only made on plate appearance in the ws.

Ohio St loses jt Barrett to injury vs Michigan, cardale Jones lead them to big ten title the next week, then beats Alabama in The cfp
Semis and Oregon in the title game.
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I remember Vermeil's press conference after Green went down. Vermeil was in tears.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
The Pacers didn't win it all but it got me thinking. After a pretty ridiculous online discussion of whether there needs to be an asterisk next to OKCs win because of TH absence (absolutely not. Stop with the asterisk flinging)
I started thinking of teams that lost a star or key player during the year they won it all.

This could be from any sport. Who you got?
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The Pacers got luck this year and last year with other injuries to key players. This year it was no Dane, Like 4 Cleveland players intlcuding Mitchell who was limping on one bad leg in the last game, and Towns. The year before a bunch of Knicks players were hurt including Brunson who broke his hand in the game 7 and both Yannis and Dane. So Indiana got lucky both years to get as far as they got.
 
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3rdbass said:
The Pacers got luck this year and last year with other injuries to key players. This year it was no Dane, Like 4 Cleveland players intlcuding Mitchell who was limping on one bad leg in the last game, and Towns. The year before a bunch of Knicks players were hurt including Brunson who broke his hand in the game 7 and both Yannis and Dane. So Indiana got lucky both years to get as far as they got.
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That's what they said about the Celtics last year on their way to a championship. There is no such thing as "luck" with injuries. It's part of the game. And it seems especially more so recently.
 
HooperScooper said:
That's what they said about the Celtics last year on their way to a championship. There is no such thing as "luck" with injuries. It's part of the game. And it seems especially more so recently.
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Consider that the Celtics had their own injury issues.
 
HooperScooper said:
That's what they said about the Celtics last year on their way to a championship. There is no such thing as "luck" with injuries. It's part of the game. And it seems especially more so recently.
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Yet Celtics fans are using injuries as an excuse this year, you can't have it both ways.
 
Scoe said:
Yet Celtics fans are using injuries as an excuse this year, you can't have it both ways.
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I'm sure some are. Not me. They blew three double digit leads (nay, 20 point leads) in three different games to the Knicks. Tatum's injury had nothing to do with the NBA season being over in mid May.
 
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HooperScooper said:
That's what they said about the Celtics last year on their way to a championship. There is no such thing as "luck" with injuries. It's part of the game. And it seems especially more so recently.
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The overuse of players is a huge issue, in part because top teams have been losing key players at the end of the season or in the playoffs for several years in a row. The fact that Cleveland and Boston got decimated and the Knicks were completely spent by the Conference Finals doesn't make the Pacers better. If Halliburton had gone down in game 1 against the Bucks, Pacers may have lost that series in 6 games even with Lillard getting hurt.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
The overuse of players is a huge issue, in part because top teams have been losing key players at the end of the season or in the playoffs for several years in a row. The fact that Cleveland and Boston got decimated and the Knicks were completely spent by the Conference Finals doesn't make the Pacers better. If Halliburton had gone down in game 1 against the Bucks, Pacers may have lost that series in 6 games even with Lillard getting hurt.
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So many things going on here.
The Celtics weren't decimated by injuries. Tatum went down when the series was basically out of reach, and before that the big issue was Porzingis, who is unreliable in the best-case scenario. Holliday and Horford were old, not injured.
The Knicks weren't completely spent. The Pacers outplayed them.
The Bucks were completely exposed. They have Giannis, Lillard got hurt and then they have not a single player that scares anyone.
 
Inyatkin said:
So many things going on here.
The Celtics weren't decimated by injuries. Tatum went down when the series was basically out of reach, and before that the big issue was Porzingis, who is unreliable in the best-case scenario. Holliday and Horford were old, not injured.
The Knicks weren't completely spent. The Pacers outplayed them.
The Bucks were completely exposed. They have Giannis, Lillard got hurt and then they have not a single player that scares anyone.
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With this 1990’s thinking you would fit right in on Doc Rivers’ staff.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
The Pacers didn't win it all but it got me thinking. After a pretty ridiculous online discussion of whether there needs to be an asterisk next to OKCs win because of TH absence (absolutely not. Stop with the asterisk flinging)
I started thinking of teams that lost a star or key player during the year they won it all.

This could be from any sport. Who you got?
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Asterisk discussions are usually nonsense anyways. Fans can put accomplishments in context. Those that can’t, aren’t likely to be much of a fan anyways. Building a team (as husky fans we know this well) means building a starting 5 and depth, having healthy players and a coach that knows when to push them or not to avoid injury. If every Eastern Conference team had no injuries and every player was fully healthy, would the Pacers have been in the finals? I’m sure Tatum and Porzingis would have something to say about that. Maybe there should be an asterisk next to the Pacers Eastern Conference title. OKC was the better team in my opinion so I’m not mad at the results
 
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