Over the past 20 seasons (1995 was 20 years ago), here is a full list of teams that ranked among the five youngest in the league and then went on to advance past the first round of the playoffs:
- 2004-05 Suns – Of all those seven-seconds-or-less Suns teams, this early version was the only one that finished very first in the league in both pace and offensive efficiency. Brilliant and unforgettable – the force of a 22-year-old Amare Stoudemire (scoring 26.0 per game), Steve Nash, Joe Johnson, Shawn Marion, Quentin Richardson. They swept the Grizzlies (the Pau Gasol-on-the-Grizzlies) and beat the Mavericks in six before falling to the Spurs in one of those seasons when the Spurs would not be losing to anyone.