After five straight seasons in the playoffs, SWMP somehow found themselves in the Toilet Bowl despite a 10-8 record. Edged out by multiple tie-breakers, SWMP was the leading candidate to win the 2024 Toilet Bowl and they did so without much trouble as the top seed, dispatching ABCX and UFOS in the first two rounds—the two worst teams in the league—and then breaking the spirit of FUNK in the final round. The Toilet Bowl win is nice, but SWMP is also a victim of its own success, as they now dubbed “SWMP Rule” will prevent them from enjoying a top-two pick in the 2025 draft. However, they will win a RD1.3 selection, and that is still a nice prize for a team that is loaded with talent.
The trade off of Alperen Sengun will give SWMP a new look heading into next season as they’ll feature a theoretical keeper core of Nikola Jokic, Jalen Williams, Paul George, Zach LaVine, Jalen Johnson, Keyonte George, Deandre Ayton, and Bradley Beal—who led this team in minutes in the TB Finals! (Already there were talks of the injured LaVine being shopped in the upcoming offseason.)
This SWMP’s third Toilet Bowl win, tying them with CHMK for the record. Congrats Eddie and we hope to never see you in the Toilet Bowl again!
As for FUNK, they pulled off wins versus MELO and TRUO to advance to their third Toilet Bowl finals, and they’ll get the number one overall pick by default. The last time FUNK had back-to-back Toilet Bowl victories and subsequent number one picks, ending up with Karl-Anthony Towns and Ben Simmons in 2015 and 2016 respectively. With no consensus top prospect in the upcoming 2025 draft, it’ll be interesting to see what direction FUNK goes with this selection.
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