How about Houston? They haven't had a single sub-.500 team under Daryl Morey. Morey maximizes his assets, moving players before they leave for nothing or demand big contracts they won't live up to. He's the anti-DL.
The W's haven't had a top 5 pick since 2002. That team was built with mid-lottery picks, trades and in free agency.
DL seems to be emulating the Wolves, recent Kings and 90s Clippers. Should be a fun decade.
But here's the rub. Were we in Houston's position, the Jazz fan base (or certain members of it, including many on this board) would be excoriating Morey because Houston, while a perennial 50+ game winner and very good team, is not a real championship contender, having failed to reach even the WCFs since bringing Harden and Howard on board. They are very similar to the D-Will-Boozer Jazz, a very good team, but not a real contender. (Let's face it, Houston isn't winning the West.) There would be as much complaining about this and calls to blow it up as there is now about being a crappy rebuilding team.
Yes, Millsap and Big Al were good players (Hayward is, in my opinion, better than both of them), but neither of the teams they're on now are going anywhere past the first round of the playoffs (Atlanta, maybe, but that franchise is the very epitome of NBA mediocrity). How many of us would be happy with this outcome?
I've read year after year here the voices urging the Jazz to go Championship or bust--it seemed nobody was happy with perpetual mediocrity--but now that we're in a rebuild, less than one fully committed year into it, people are already jumping off the bandwagon. How many teams completely rebuild in a year or two? Not many.
Personally, I was never a championship or bust fan. I like having competitive, winning and fun to watch teams. I'd be thrilled to be Houston, even if I knew deep down inside I'd never win a title.