No, they got rid of the load delay slot in MIPS II. While not required in later ABIs, they kept the branch delay slot for backwards compatibility. MIPS32/MIPS64, which came out much later, also had several new branch instructions without delay slots.

One (probably the only) nifty thing the branch delay slot allowed was in the user-space threads implementation, you didn't have to burn a register for the jump to another thread, you'd do the branch and then clobber the register with the last bit of the jumped-to thread's context. Kinda fiendishly clever.