Most unremarkable 5 year stretch the last 50 years?

[Kblaze8855]

What league stretch is least historically significant to you?

72-76, 75-79, 04-08, 18-22?

The 70s didn’t have much happen you care about but they had the merger…after that? I mean….I don’t believe you know who won the 78 title with any conviction. Most of you at least. 79 maybe. You probably don’t know 78.

The 04 pistons, 06 Heat, and both spurs teams get downplayed a good bit.

18 had a historic warriors team talent wise but 19 was the flash in the pan Raptors and the next two years got a lot of covid asterisk talk from people(though many don’t actually care…they just don’t like who won). This year is to be decided but we got 3 years of winners some of you pretend didn’t happen or matter.


So tell me….to you….

72-22…50 years.

What 5 years are your dark ages?

Anyone willing to toss out 99-03 as a candidate?

[SouBeachTalents]

The 70’s is too easy a target, to make it interesting it should be 1980 and beyond.

My top 2 choices would be either 03-07 or 17-21. The former had the Spurs dynasty nobody cared about, while the Pistons & Heat were one off champs. The latter had the KD Warriors who while yes, the 2017 team is in GOAT discussions, which obv counts for something, those were 2 titles that frankly didn’t move the needle for it’s 2 superstars the way titles typically do. Then you had one off champs in the Raps, the bubble Lakers title, and last years Bucks title amid a sea of injuries, 3 titles that get lots of asterisk talk.

[ShawkFactory]

The only thing about 03-07 is that the 03 season has so much star power. Kobe, Shaq, Tmac, Duncan, Garnett, Kidd all playing at or near the top of their games.

The second tier stars were great too with AI, Dirk, Webber, Pierce, etc.

Just seemed like everyone played well that year.

[Kblaze8855]

I’d say the 70s aren’t so much weak as unknown to younger audiences. The two least known champions had I think 4 and 5 all stars and several hall of famers and all nba first teamers. They weren’t bad just….not big names. Don’t have whatever hook some people get to grab attention. But they were mostly super talented teams or good stories that just happened between perceived golden ages.

[FultzNationRISE]

I'd say some time in the 90s. It was poppin for a couple years around 94, 95 when some teams were at their absolute peaks, and then it started to really ramp up around 99. But other than that, it just wasn't much of anything special.

[1987_Lakers]

'75-'79 for sure has to be #1

- Underwhelming teams

- League's best player Kareem was playing for a bad team

- Talent pool was bad compared to other eras

- Drug use and fights hurting NBA' image

The only memorable thing that happened during that span was the '77 Finals.

I agree with Soubeach that '03-'07 was underwhelming as well. Spurs were boring to watch in those days, '06 Finals were ruined due to bad ref controversy, Kobe wasting the beginning of his peak on a bad team.

I remember in the middle of the '05 Finals people saying it was the most boring Finals ever despite it being a 2-2 series, it got better in game 5 though.

[ImKobe]

'75-'79 for sure has to be #1

- Underwhelming teams

- League's best player Kareem was playing for a bad team

- Talent pool was bad compared to other eras

- Drug use and fights hurting NBA' image

The only memorable thing that happened during that span was the '77 Finals.

I agree with Soubeach that '03-'07 was underwhelming as well. Spurs were boring to watch in those days, '06 Finals were ruined due to bad ref controversy, Kobe wasting the beginning of his peak on a bad team.

I remember in the middle of the '05 Finals people saying it was the most boring Finals ever despite it being a 2-2 series, it got better in game 5 though.

Mid-70s easily wins this.

There's nothing that unremarkable about 03-07 (aside from the Spurs-Cavs Finals). You had the Lakers-Spurs rivalry, Shaq vs Kobe, peak T-Mac, peak KG, peak Duncan, peak Dirk, Bran and Wade coming into the league and becoming superstars by '05/'06, 7 seconds or less Suns, Spurs vs Suns rivalry, Pistons vs Pacers rivalry that led to Artest going into the stands, peak Kobe putting up 30-40+ every night and plenty more.

[John8204]

54-58, in those five year the five best players of the 50's all won a chip.

54 - Mikan's Lakers
55 - Schaye's Nationals
56 - Arizin's Warriors
57 - Russel's Celtics
58 - Pettit's Hawks

[tontoz]

You probably don’t know 78.



The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings :rockon:

[8Ball]

When they said Larry Bird and Magic revived the NBA, its because nobody wanted to watch the 70s.

[SouBeachTalents]

54-58, in those five year the five best players of the 50's all won a chip.

54 - Mikan's Lakers
55 - Schaye's Nationals
56 - Arizin's Warriors
57 - Russel's Celtics
58 - Pettit's Hawks
That is some excellent reading comprehension

[bison]

2011-2014 aka Le Dark Ages

[Johnny32]

i'll go with the offensively challenged, expansion diluted, mid to late 90s. an era where finals teams were dropping 50 points for an entire game.

[Spurs m8]

i'll go with the offensively challenged, expansion diluted, mid to late 90s. an era where finals teams were dropping 50 points for an entire game.

When they were actually playing D?

[Spurs m8]

2017 - 2021

2017 - KD to 73 win team...meh

2018 - KD ro 73 win team...meh

2019 - injury depleted team lost in Finals

2020 - no ring, just scrimmage award

2021 - no crowds until playoffs, lots of injuries in playoffs.

[BarberSchool]

I have only been alive to see basketball from the 90’s on, but have seen all the highlight VHS tapes from the 80’s from video rental stores and such, including “NBA Showmen” which briefly told the stories of Pete Maravich, Tiny Archibald, Earl the Pearl, Magic, etc

So I can’t accurately judge the 70’s

I will say the Marbury/Francis/etc era, with every squad trying to get their own Iverson (low efficiency score first PG) was a really bad era.

I think the officiating changes this last year have really saved the NBA game from losing a lot of its most knowledgeable fans. And the league has more individual skill at every position than it ever did.

But there was something incredibly special about 90’s NBA basketball, and all the periphery around it…. The Nike & Reebok ads, the street all culture before And-1, the sheer volume of talented athletic big men who played extremely physical, big guards who could play super physical and create the first forms of the modern game we see today….

So in saying that, a counterbalance thread for highest peak in league history would be apropos.