Best Sports Teams that Only Won One Championship

In sports, you become immortalized once you win a championship. However, some groups are more revered than others due to their ability to reach the top of the mountain on multiple occasions. These are the teams that managed to win a championship in their respective leagues, but had the talent and depth on their rosters to potentially become a dynasty.

This list is dedicated to the eras of teams whose core managed to win only one title with the talent on their rosters.
The Top Ten
1 Jerry West's Los Angeles Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association, as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. ...read more.

An extremely lucky bounce by Celtic Don Nelson stole the title from this team in game 7 in 1969. The following year, West himself made a miraculous 64-foot buzzer beater that would have won the title in the "3-point era", but the shot was only worth 2 points, forcing overtime, which the Lakers lost.

Technically the Lakers did win the chip that one year against the Knicks, but half court shots only counted for two back then

2 Bobby Cox's Atlanta Braves The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The franchise competes in Major League Baseball as a member of the National League East division. They play their home games at SunTrust Park.
3 Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts The Indianapolis Colts are an American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Colts compete in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference South division.
4 Mike Ditka's Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team in Chicago, Illinois. The Bears compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference North division.
5 Brett Favre's Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference North division. The Packers have won 4 Super Bowls and 13 NFL championships.
6 Late 1970s-Early 1990s Philadelphia 76ers The Philadelphia 76ers are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
7 1970s-1980s Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Phillies compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League East division. They play their home games at Citizens Bank Park. They won the World Series in 1980 and 2008.
8 "The Big Three" Boston Celtics The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are specifically known for honing infamous players such as Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Paul Pierce, and more. They are also known for having the most championships in NBA History, with 17 total.
9 2000s Detroit Pistons The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division.
10 "The Greatest Show on Turf" St. Louis Rams The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
The Contenders
11 2014-15 KC Royals

To be fair nobody saw this team coming in 2014. However our core players like Mike Moustakas,Eric Hosmer, Alceides Escobar,Salvador Perez,Lorenzo Cain, and Alex Gordon had the talents to win multiple titles. Plus we had an elite bullpen trio of Greg Holland Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis. The only reason why our team was dismantled was because of the Royals being a small market franchise that didn't have enough money to keep everyone. And now that's why we're going back to the dark age.

12 James and Irving's Cleveland Cavaliers

LeBron was great; the team, not so much.

13 Dirk Nowitzki’s Dallas Mavericks
14 Bill Walton's Portland Trail Blazers
15 Tony Dorsett's Dallas Cowboys
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