10 Greatest NBA Teams of All-Time According to InsideHoops - Vote #2 (in 2021)

[TheCorporation]

Vote for the best team in NBA History. We will have 10 rounds of this to determine the top 10 nba teams of all time according to ISH.

Candidates for #2:
1967 Sixers
1971 Bucks
1972 Lakers
1974 Bucks
1983 Sixers
1984 Celtics
1986 Celtics
1987 Lakers
1992 Bulls
1996 Bulls
2000 Lakers
2001 Lakers
2002 Kings
2007 Spurs
2008 Celtics
2013 Heat
2013 Thunder
2014 Spurs
2015 Warriors
2016 Cavaliers
2016 Warriors
2017 Warriors (VOTED #1)
2018 Warriors


Place your votes and I'll be sure to keep a tally going. No trolling.

I'll start the #2 voting with: 2016 Golden State Warriors



VOTING TOTALS FOR #2



1996 Bulls: 9x
(Filmy Cog Turner, RogueBorg, dankok8, 2much_knowledge, zeerghit, the mesiah, No_Control, 97 bulls, Gudo)

2016 Warriors: 4x
(expansion era, ElitePower23, LBJ, TheCorporation)

1986 Celtics: 3x
(colt19, Round Mound, mr4speed)

1967 Sixers: 1x
(coastalmarker99)

1987 Lakers: 2x
(Magic Is Magic, ClipperRevival)

2018 Rockets: 1x
(000)

2019 Raptors: 1x
(Honor Boost)

[SouBeachTalents]

1996 Bulls

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFrRnWEt3Z4

'86 Celtics. Probably the greatest mix of talent and chemistry the NBA had ever seen until the '17 Warriors came along. Very hard to find a weakness on this team, great offense, GOAT frontcourt, good shooting & great passing, #1 in rebounding & #1 in defense.

[jlip]

1986 Celtics

[DevBooker'sMask]

86' celtics

[Baller789]

'86 Boston Celtics was stacked!

[the mesiah]

1996 Bulls #1
1987 Lakers #2,

[colts19]

1986 Celtics

[SouBeachTalents]

Since the '86 Celtics are getting so much love, I'm switching my vote to them. I honestly thought the Bulls had this shit locked up at 9-3 :lol

[Lebron_James]

2016 Warriors

[Chick Stern]

‘87 Lakers


and 2008 Celts are listed, but the 2010 Lakers are not? :kobe:

[francesco totti]

73 win Warriors

[TheCorporation]

‘87 Lakers


and 2008 Celts are listed, but the 2010 Lakers are not? :kobe:

Yes...2008 BOS > 2010 LAL right?

[Wowzers]

86 Boston

[Blazers32]

I'll vote for Warriors 2016 too, Althought it ended up being incomplete by losing finals.

[Honor Boost]

Yup swap me from 19' raptors to 16' warriors ill concede it for now

[Round Mound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFrRnWEt3Z4

'86 Celtics. Probably the greatest mix of talent and chemistry the NBA had ever seen until the '17 Warriors came along. Very hard to find a weakness on this team, great offense, GOAT frontcourt, good shooting & great passing, #1 in rebounding & #1 in defense.

:applause:

[Manny98]

86 Celtics

[Shaquille O'Neal]

73 win Warriors

The best team by # of wins for a season is the 1996 Bulls. They played 100 games that year and were 87-13, (87% win percentage). Went 15-3 in the playoffs, won chip.
The 2016 Warriors were 73-9 regular season + 15-9 in the playoffs, so 88-18 (83.01% win percentage) and LOST the chip. They lost as many playoff games in 24 games as they did the 82 game regular season. By default, obviously, a team that loses in the finals could never be in the "GOAT" team list.

96 Bulls not only had the league MVP, scoring champ, easily the GOAT player by a wide margin, FMVP, but a smothering defense and arguably the top 3 rebounders (Rodman) and an all-world defender (Pippen) and several amazing role players. Now obviously Kerr was bad on defense and Rodman on offense was almost like only having 4 offensive players, but the key was everyone knew their role and did it very well.
My vote for #2 would be either the 86 Celtics or that 67 Sixers team with Wilt on it (68-13 regular season) and won the Chip.
#3 86 Celtics
#4 - 2001 Lakers.

[Shaquille O'Neal]

Also fun fact:
1996 Bulls are the *only* team in the history of the NBA to win 70 or more games and the title. No other team has ever done it.
Who's 2nd place? Right, that same team the next year - 1996-1997 Bulls. 69-13 and their 5th chip.

It's 1995-96 Bulls, and it's not even close.

[1987_Lakers]

I remember back in 2004, NBA.com had a tournament to determine the GOAT team, they had a bunch of analysts who were former coaches and people in media all vote on matchups that was based off seeding. I don't remember the full tournament, but I think the Final 4 teams ended up being the '67 Sixers, '86 Celtics, '87 Lakers, & '96 Bulls. The '86 Celtics beat the Bulls in the semifinals and the '87 Lakers beat the Celtics in the Finals.

I wish I could find this project online, but it seems to have gotten erased by the internet.

[fsvr54]

86 Celtics

[Nike D'Antoni]

I am going 2016 Warriors. The 1996 Bulls went to six games in the Finals vs Gary Payton-Detlef Schrempf Seattle SuperSonics. Sonics held them 4 times under 100 points too.
They didn't face a "great" team, Warriors had to go through tougher competition in 2016.

[Thenameless]

1986 Celtics

And I bleed Purple and Gold.

[TheCorporation]

VOTING TOTALS FOR #2

1986 Celtics: 12x
(colt19, Round Mound, mr4speed. 1987_Lakers, jlip, DevBooker'sMask SouBeachTalents, Baller789, Wowzers, Manny98, fsvr54, Thenameless)

1996 Bulls: 10x
(Filmy Cog Turner, RogueBorg, dankok8, 2much_knowledge, zeerghit, the mesiah, No_Control, 97 bulls, Gudo, Shaquille O'Neal)

2016 Warriors: 9x
(expansion era, ElitePower23, LBJ, TheCorporation, Lebron_James, francesco totti, Honor Boost, Blazers32, Nike D'Antoni)

1987 Lakers: 3x
(Magic Is Magic, ClipperRevival, Chick Stern)

1967 Sixers: 1x
(coastalmarker99)

2018 Rockets: 1x
(000)



Getting close to a decision here, keep the votes coming in!

[TheCorporation]

The 2016 Warriors set so many records and if the only knock against them is losing to a SUPER CHARGED LeBron James and Kyrie Irving then so be it.

The 1996 Bulls beat the Payton Sonics :lol
The 2016 Warriors beat the KD Thunder, which is a much, much better team

If the Warriors played the weak Sonics they'd have a chip too.

Records set by the 2016 Warriors:

• 24-0 start (Best start in NBA history) The previous best was 15-0 by the 1994 Rockets

• Best eFG% shooting team of all time

https://i.postimg.cc/3xCB7NMv/Best-Shooting-Team-of-All-time.png

• More efficient than 96 Bulls, PER weighting

https://i.postimg.cc/7h23RYMb/73-beats-72-efficient.png

• Never lost two games in a row (WHAT THE FU**)

[Thenameless]

The 2016 Warriors set so many records and if the only knock against them is losing to a SUPER CHARGED LeBron James and Kyrie Irving then so be it.

The 1996 Bulls beat the Payton Sonics :lol
The 2016 Warriors beat the KD Thunder, which is a much, much better team

If the Warriors played the weak Sonics they'd have a chip too.

Records set by the 2016 Warriors:

• 24-0 start (Best start in NBA history) The previous best was 15-0 by the 1994 Rockets

• Best eFG% shooting team of all time

https://i.postimg.cc/3xCB7NMv/Best-Shooting-Team-of-All-time.png

• More efficient than 96 Bulls, PER weighting

https://i.postimg.cc/7h23RYMb/73-beats-72-efficient.png

• Never lost two games in a row (WHAT THE FU**)

None of this means anything if you don't win when it counts. Remember the 2007 Patriots? And this isn't even the Super Bowl where a team can get lucky in one game (the Patriots probably beat the Giants in a 7-game series). The Warriors showed their true colours by choking when it counted most. Forget it.

[SouBeachTalents]

None of this means anything if you don't win when it counts. Remember the 2007 Patriots? And this isn't even the Super Bowl where a team can get lucky in one game (the Patriots probably beat the Giants in a 7-game series). The Warriors showed their true colours by choking when it counted most. Forget it.
Not winning a championship in football is significantly more forgivable than not winning one in basketball, or any other team sport. In one game anything can happen, and even if they didn't win the Super Bowl, the '07 Pats imo are easily the best NFL team of the last 20+ years. You get beat 4 times in a series, you're not in contention for greatest team ever.

[Lebron23]

2016 Cleveland Cavaliers

[Johnny32]

16 gsw.

[1987_Lakers]

Can we move on to #3?

[TheCorporation]

VOTING TOTALS FOR #2

*Winner = 1986 Celtics: 12x
(colt19, Round Mound, mr4speed. 1987_Lakers, jlip, DevBooker'sMask SouBeachTalents, Baller789, Wowzers, Manny98, fsvr54, Thenameless)

1996 Bulls: 10x
(Filmy Cog Turner, RogueBorg, dankok8, 2much_knowledge, zeerghit, the mesiah, No_Control, 97 bulls, Gudo, Shaquille O'Neal)

2016 Warriors: 10x
(expansion era, ElitePower23, LBJ, TheCorporation, Lebron_James, francesco totti, Honor Boost, Blazers32, Nike D'Antoni, Johnny32)

1987 Lakers: 3x
(Magic Is Magic, ClipperRevival, Chick Stern)

2016 Cavaliers: 1x
(LeBron23)

1967 Sixers: 1x
(coastalmarker99)

2018 Rockets: 1x
(000)

[Shaquille O'Neal]

I am going 2016 Warriors. The 1996 Bulls went to six games in the Finals vs Gary Payton-Detlef Schrempf Seattle SuperSonics. Sonics held them 4 times under 100 points too.
They didn't face a "great" team, Warriors had to go through tougher competition in 2016.

The Sonics with Kemp, Detlef, Payton were very tough. Went 64-18 that year. You may not be old enough to remember watching that series as an adult. Using your logic though, the 16' Warriors LOST to a pathetic 57-25 team.

We could argue 86 Celtics and 67 Philly, but please don't include regular season hero teams.

And for the record - the Bulls only lost 1 game before the finals, and were up 3-0 on the Sonics in 96'. Sometimes you get bored, as clearly Mike needed a push. Too bad when Curry got pushed in Game 7 of 2016 he flung a pass out of bounds headed for Klay.

[TheCorporation]

The Sonics with Kemp, Detlef, Payton were very tough. Went 64-18 that year. You may not be old enough to remember watching that series as an adult. Using your logic though, the 16' Warriors LOST to a pathetic 57-25 team.

We could argue 86 Celtics and 67 Philly, but please don't include regular season hero teams.

And for the record - the Bulls only lost 1 game before the finals, and were up 3-0 on the Sonics in 96'. Sometimes you get bored, as clearly Mike needed a push. Too bad when Curry got pushed in Game 7 of 2016 he flung a pass out of bounds headed for Klay.

Are you even attempting to talk up the 1996 Sonics and NOT the 2016 Thunder?

[Wally450]

1986 Celtics for me.

[Round Mound]

Can we move on to #3?

87 and 85 Lakers IMO 3 and 4

[1987_Lakers]

Did we ever finish this thing? I forgot.

[John8204]

It's a bad list when three top ten all-time teams didn't make the cut (Russell/Hondo Celtics, Bad Boy Pistons, Frazier/Reed/Debuscherre/Monroe/Lucas - Knicks)

[Jasper]

96 bulls

21 bucks lol