Toilet Bowl Teams 2025

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The tournament for the losers. We love to see people duke it out to the finish and this year’s on the bubble teams were stellar in their competitiveness. With Capture the Flagg draft coming up in 2026, the incentive must have been great to tank. However, that wasn’t what our bubble teams chose to do and we commend them for that. Let’s take a look at the eight teams who will be fighting for high draft picks next season.

#9 SBUK (10-8)

ODE: 14/11/2

Giving us a masterclass in fighting till the end, SBUK went 5-1 down the stretch to try to the make the playoffs. Their last three games were against bottom feeders FJUB, UFOS, and TRUO, but SBUK resisted any urge to tank and fought hard all the way through. Bravo, bravo! Now, SBUK are looking at the best odds for a Toilet Bowl win—they captured a TB win in 2019—while being subject to the dreaded SWMP Rule of not being able to pick first or second overall next year. However, let the record show that SBUK is here to win and not roll over, even as Joel Embiid and Kyrie Irving are out for the season. Winning a 2026 RD1.3 would still be a great accomplishment, as GM Josh has already started to go younger, trading off Rudy Gobert and CJ McCollum for the promise of Alex Sarr (2025 RD1.11). Let karma reign for SBUK!

#10 CHMK (9-9)

ODE: 7/2/15

After last season’s pre-postseason trade extravaganza, CHMK has stayed quiet this year as they watched their talent-consolidated roster play a full season together. Evan Mobley emerged as an All Star, Anthony Edwards faced the pressure of being “The Guy,” and 2024 RD1.3 Amen Thompson broke out and might now challenge Edwards as the most fun guy in the NBA to watch. All that and a 0.500 record, not bad! While CHMK suffered a five game losing streak midseason to take them out of playoff contention, they did rally for a 2-2 finish. CHMK is a team on the rise and a high draft pick in 2026 could be just the thing to take them out of the loser’s bracket, where they’ve been mired for four long years.

#11 FUNK (8-10)

ODE: 8/11/4

Back-to-back eight win seasons have sent FUNK to the Toilet Bowl again. Despite getting the top overall selection this past season—misspent on Reed Sheppard aka “White Yuki Kawamura”—FUNK has struggled gathering any momentum all season long. Even after a series of midseason trades to try to right the ship—bringing in Jakob Poeltl, Collin Sexton, and Goga Bitadze—FUNK only managed to pick up one win in their last six games, relegating them to the bottom tournament once again. With Lauri Markkanen out and still no real point guard around—Sexton is also hurt—FUNK will need Jayson Tatum and Trey Murphy to both get white hot to have a shot at picking first overall again. Maybe FUNK can grab Sheppard with 2026 RD1.1 and run it back!

#12 BUFF (7-10-1)

ODE: 3/15/6

Speaking of a team that finished the season on a downturn, 2025’s surprise SlamNataion Finalist BUFF went 1-6-1 over the past two months, squandering their successful early season. Somehow BUFF was still third in in the league on offense, as they led everyone in 3PT and was fifth in PTS. There is a dangerous team in here somewhere, with Jalen Brunson and Domantas Sabonis leading the way—plus the pre-draft trade for Coby White has been great—but BUFF is entering the Toilet Bowl a little wounded all around, with the biggest missing piece being Brandon Ingram, who is unlikely to see any time before the 2025 SlamNation season ends. Still, BUFF could get a juicy high pick if they manage to get a win or two in the Toilet Bowl, and Cooper Flagg is looking mighty good as a defensive centerpiece for any team, particularly this one!

#13 FJUB (5-12-1)

ODE: 11/3/12

FJUB led the league in Games Played this season, but all those GPs still resulted in this long time franchise’s worst regular season ever. Yep, after missing only one playoffs in the past fifteen seasons, the 0.306 winning 2025 FJUB find themselves not only in the Toilet Bowl, but as a low low seed. Strangely, the pairing of Trae Young and Karl-Anthony Towns should give any team a good offensive baseline, but FJUB is instead back to their traditional ways, as a top-three defensive squad. What gives?! Overall, FJUB is likely looking at a rebuild, with time needed for 2025 RD1.10 Zaccharie Risacher to grow and the rest of the roster to be shifted around. A midseason trade for OG Anunoby was a nice add but more will likely be needed for FJUB to return to their winning ways.

#14 ABCX (4-13-1)

ODE: 15/8/9

After throwing up the rest regular season in SlamNation history last year, it’s a bit of a shock to see ABCX with four huge wins. They cleared out all the teams underneath them in these ratings, and took out FUNK in WK16 as well. ABCX started the season off 0-9-1, meaning they actually went 4-4 the rest of the way! Woohoo! The return of LaMelo Ball to mostly full health certainly helped, as the underrated crazy great Ivica Zubac season as well. Now we’ll see if ABCX can make any noise in the Toilet Bowl, even as their roster is dotted with injured and suspended players. We can’t say ABCX is ready to win much, but at least they won some this year!

#15 TRUO (3-13-2)

ODE: 10/14/6

Over the past eight seasons, TRUO has thrown up a 0.311 winning percentage. In their first eight years, they were winning at a 0.613 clip. Since 2020, TRUO has a record of 24-83-4 and they’ve been mired at the bottom of the standings. After starting the 2025 season off with three straight wins, TRUO proceeded to chuck out thirteen losses and two ties to close the year. Oof. 2025 was also the rare year where Coach Thien’s team wasn’t one of the Games Played leaders, which is something that has always been a strength. We would love for this once successful franchise to get a high 2026 pick, but with a slew of injuries—most notably to outstanding 2025 rookie free agent find Jared McCain—TRUO will likely have to do with a middling first round pick, yet again.

#16 UFOS (2-16)

ODE: 16/16/4

With only one win last season—UFOS’ first—the 2025 version of this team technically doubled last year’s success. And those two wins were legit, versus SBUK and BUFF. However, owner Victor was basically M.I.A. over the back half of the season and with multiple lineup violations and a paltry Games Played number, most fans are calling for a new owner. The roster was never devoid of talent, but there’s not franchise player on-board to hang their hat on—especially post-Damian Lillard deal—and whoever comes in to take over this franchise in 2026 will have some major revamping to do. Still, we hope UFOS had a good time in SlamNation and someone eager and competent will come aboard to take over the moribund FOBS/UFOS franchise.