Was 2011-2016 the greatest era of NBA basketball?

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECdKuQz3NA


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgade7_mjHc

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6XsZVb-ZE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIF8zcj_J4Y


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

[RRR3]

LeBron won 3 rings during this period so yes.

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBAshwZs3A

People don't understand how big this game was in 2012. This was the definition of "legacy on the line" after what happened in 2011 and being down 3-2 vs the Celtics the next year. No other player in history faced this kind of pressure before.

[SouBeachTalents]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6nKRk9SEy8&ab_channel=PHP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEMVGHoenXM&ab_channel=NBA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3kqTyBJaQY&ab_channel=NBA

[Axe]

Remember that we got a braindead casual in here who called the 2016 warriors 'overrated' but now thinks that stephen curry is the 'best player of his generation'. Smh. Can't have it both ways.

[ArbitraryWater]

Remember that we got a braindead casual in here who called the 2016 warriors 'overrated' but now thinks that stephen curry is the 'best player of his generation'. Smh. Can't have it both ways.

Calm down bro, dont have to turn every thread into that :lol

[AussieSteve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBAshwZs3A

People don't understand how big this game was in 2012. This was the definition of "legacy on the line" after what happened in 2011 and being down 3-2 vs the Celtics the next year. No other player in history faced this kind of pressure before.

Agree. The pressure was, to some extent, self imposed because of prior underperformance, though.

But for sure, this moment and Lebron's 2016 finals are arguably the two greatest individual moments in NBA history.

[ImKobe]

2006-16, it tailed off after 2013 but had a resurgence in 2016.

[StrongLurk]

2006-16, it tailed off after 2013 but had a resurgence in 2016.

Agreed

[StrongLurk]

2006-16, it tailed off after 2013 but had a resurgence in 2016.

Agreed

[1987_Lakers]

2006-16, it tailed off after 2013 but had a resurgence in 2016.

Kobe was a monster in '06 & '07, but it was kinda wasted for being on a bad team. Spurs were probably the best team during those years, but they were a snooze fest to watch, nothing like they later became in 2014.

If I was going with a 10 year period I would go 2008-2018. In the '08 & 09 seasons that's when you saw guys like CP3, Wade, LeBron, & Dwight really take their game to another level. KD basically ruined the 2017 season, but I guess we can say we witnessed the GOAT team that year, 2018 had LeBron's crazy playoff run and a great Warriors-Rockets series.

[90sgoat]

It was definitely entertaining with the storylines, the Heatles, the young OKC, the Spurs making the Heatles break up, Lebron back to Cleveland and then the rise of GSW, Curry-ball and Durant dagger.

Very good 5 years. I would say for me, 1992 to 1997 beats it.

[1987_Lakers]

It was definitely entertaining with the storylines, the Heatles, the young OKC, the Spurs making the Heatles break up, Lebron back to Cleveland and then the rise of GSW, Curry-ball and Durant dagger.

Very good 5 years. I would say for me, 1992 to 1997 beats it.

It gets disqualified for MJ being absent in '94 and most of '95. Early 90's was good ball, but by the mid-late 90's lots of the superstars that dominated the late 80's & early 90's started to get old and there wasn't enough young talent to combat that issue. '96 was a great draft, but guys like Kobe, Nash, & Jermaine O'Neal didn't make an impact in this league till the 2000's rolled around.

To me the '84-'88 era and the '11-'16 era have the discussion for the best eras.

'84 Finals (That era's version of the 2016 Finals, historic)
'84 draft
Magic vs Bird rivalry
Insane talent by 1988, superstars pretty much everywhere

That era basically saved the NBA and put it back on the map with the other major sports.

[Full Court]

Remember that we got a braindead casual in here who called the 2016 warriors 'overrated' but now thinks that stephen curry is the 'best player of his generation'. Smh. Can't have it both ways.

Shocking. The consensus dumbest poster in ISH history doesn't know the difference between the rating of an individual and the rating of a team. :roll:

What a moron.

[diamenz]

don't forget the 2011 mav's finals beatdown.

[Axe]

Calm down bro, dont have to turn every thread into that :lol (https://i.ibb.co/SxWM8PC/IMG-20230805-073843.jpg)
:roll:

[Im Still Ballin]

I'd extend it out to 2008 when Boston and LA got good again. 2007-08 to 2015-16. Definitely the best "era" of the 21st century.

[BarberSchool]

Most recent of the highest peaks? yes.

Skill peak ? Yes.

Competitive peak ? Fu@k no.

Intensity peak ? Nah.

Highlight reel peak ? Not too far off, but no. Needed moar dunks.

[Norcaliblunt]

You’re just growing up and now finally becoming nostalgic.

How cute.

[kawhileonard2]

1988-1993

[FKAri]

No.


1988-1993

Also, no. Those Pistons teams played some ugly basketball. Thank God MJ wrote a letter to Stern to put an end to that.

[sdot_thadon]

No.


Also, no. Those Pistons teams played some ugly basketball. Thank God MJ wrote a letter to Stern to put an end to that.

:oldlol:

[Axe]

No.


Also, no. Those Pistons teams played some ugly basketball. Thank God MJ wrote a letter to Stern to put an end to that.
:lol

Ether.

[FKAri]

On second thought,

I think early 90s takes the cake. But the era you mentioned, I'd amend it to 08-15. It was before the stale but efficient modern offenses took over and after the league had shaken things up with zone + had figured out how to develop 18-19 year old talent that was now frequently entering the league.

[Wally450]

2005-2010 for me. 11-16 right behind it though.

[ImKobe]

Kobe was a monster in '06 & '07, but it was kinda wasted for being on a bad team. Spurs were probably the best team during those years, but they were a snooze fest to watch, nothing like they later became in 2014.

If I was going with a 10 year period I would go 2008-2018. In the '08 & 09 seasons that's when you saw guys like CP3, Wade, LeBron, & Dwight really take their game to another level. KD basically ruined the 2017 season, but I guess we can say we witnessed the GOAT team that year, 2018 had LeBron's crazy playoff run and a great Warriors-Rockets series.

Eh I'd take '06 & '07 over '17 & '18. Much more exciting just from the standpoint of watching young Wade and Bron becoming superstars and we had better Playoff series then. '17 & '18 everyone whined that KD and the Warriors ruined the NBA.

[90sgoat]

It gets disqualified for MJ being absent in '94 and most of '95. Early 90's was good ball, but by the mid-late 90's lots of the superstars that dominated the late 80's & early 90's started to get old and there wasn't enough young talent to combat that issue. '96 was a great draft, but guys like Kobe, Nash, & Jermaine O'Neal didn't make an impact in this league till the 2000's rolled around.

To me the '84-'88 era and the '11-'16 era have the discussion for the best eras.

'84 Finals (That era's version of the 2016 Finals, historic)
'84 draft
Magic vs Bird rivalry
Insane talent by 1988, superstars pretty much everywhere

That era basically saved the NBA and put it back on the map with the other major sports.

Yeah, but I only began watching around 1991, but there was hardly any games shown in Europe at that time so for what I watched those 5 years were peak, because we still had most of the stars, excluding Larry Bird, but I got to see Magic play in his comeback season etc.

[rawimpact]

92-02 best decade IMO

[JBSptfn]

1984-90. Hands down.

[gengiskhan]

LeBron COLLUDED for 3 rings during this period so no.

corrected for mental retardedness.