1991 Chicago Bulls vs 2012 Oklahoma City Thunders

[Lebron23]

Who wins in a best of 7 series?

[Bigsmoke]

Bulls.

MJ was at his peak and Westbrook and Harden werent.

[SpaceJam2]

3 MVPs on one team? Headed to the Finals on FIRE with a 12-3 record?

One team with 3 MVPS, 3 Scoring Champions and a DPOY runner up in Ibaka?

Who could ever beat that squad, definitely not a weak MJ led team. MJ never faced a good team in the Finals.

[Manny98]

3 MVPs on one team, nuff said

[SouBeachTalents]

Gotta go with the Bulls, but people really do underrate that Thunder team. Even if their stars were all 22-23, they still swept the defending champ Mavs, knocked off the Lakers in 5, then backdoor swept a Spurs team that had won over 20 games in a row. Even the Finals were much more competitive than a 4-1 series would indicate, that team was legit.

[SpaceJam2]

Gotta go with the Bulls, but people really do underrate that Thunder team. Even if their stars were all 22-23, they still swept the defending champ Mavs, knocked off the Lakers in 5, then backdoor swept a Spurs team that had won over 20 games in a row. Even the Finals were much more competitive than a 4-1 series would indicate, that team was legit.

All trolling aside, big facts

[Showtime80']

LOL, let's see,

One of the smartest, most athletic defenses of all time coupled with a potent and disciplined triangle offense coached by Phil Jackson and lead by Michael Jordan at his peak along with young Scotty and Horace backed by a solid supporting cast who blitzted the NBA to the tune of 61 regular season wins and 15-2 in the playoffs for the first of their 3 straight titles...

Against a team that has Russell Dumbrick as its second option?!?

I could name 20 non-Finals teams from the last few decades that would smash that OKC team on basketball IQ alone. The fact that players like Harden and Brick are winning MVP's in the modern NBA is an indictment on how the game has fallen more than anything else.

[NBAGOAT]

LOL, let's see,

One of the smartest, most athletic defenses of all time coupled with a potent and disciplined triangle offense coached by Phil Jackson and lead by Michael Jordan at his peak along with young Scotty and Horace backed by a solid supporting cast who blitzted the NBA to the tune of 61 regular season wins and 15-2 in the playoffs for the first of their 3 straight titles...

Against a team that has Russell Dumbrick as its second option?!?

I could name 20 non-Finals teams from the last few decades that would smash that OKC team on basketball IQ alone. The fact that players like Harden and Brick are winning MVP's in the modern NBA is an indictment on how the game has fallen more than anything else.

I would love for you to name them. A later version of Durant/Westbrook(granted better) gave 73 win gs tons of trouble and beat a dominant spurs team with a lot of the same core from their title team+Aldridge. You can call Russell dumb but he was very good those years. Ofc it

[Showtime80']

Here's 20 Goat:

80' Celtics
81' Sixers
81' Bucks
82' Celtics
85' Bucks
85' Sixers
86' Lakers
87' Pistons
88' Celtics
88' Mavs
89' Bulls
90' Bulls
92' Cavs
92' Jazz
93' Knicks
93' Sonics
93' Cavs
94' Jazz
96' Magic
96' Jazz

That's just from 1980 to 96! All of those teams were top 10 in both offense and defense.

[SpaceJam2]

Here's 20 Goat:

80' Celtics
81' Sixers
81' Bucks
82' Celtics
85' Bucks
85' Sixers
86' Lakers
87' Pistons
88' Celtics
88' Mavs
89' Bulls
90' Bulls
92' Cavs
92' Jazz
93' Knicks
93' Sonics
93' Cavs
94' Jazz
96' Magic
96' Jazz

That's just from 1980 to 96! All of those teams were top 10 in both offense and defense.

umm...

You were supposed to list 20 better, not worse

[ZenMaster7210]

LOL, let's see,

One of the smartest, most athletic defenses of all time coupled with a potent and disciplined triangle offense coached by Phil Jackson and lead by Michael Jordan at his peak along with young Scotty and Horace backed by a solid supporting cast who blitzted the NBA to the tune of 61 regular season wins and 15-2 in the playoffs for the first of their 3 straight titles...

Against a team that has Russell Dumbrick as its second option?!?

I could name 20 non-Finals teams from the last few decades that would smash that OKC team on basketball IQ alone. The fact that players like Harden and Brick are winning MVP's in the modern NBA is an indictment on how the game has fallen more than anything else.

[G0ATbe]

Thunder are winning pretty damn easily. Crazy how this team was probably lebrons easiest finals opponent but put them in the 90s they'd easily be the toughest team Jordan ever faced

[NBAGOAT]

Here's 20 Goat:

80' Celtics
81' Sixers
81' Bucks
82' Celtics
85' Bucks
85' Sixers
86' Lakers
87' Pistons
88' Celtics
88' Mavs
89' Bulls
90' Bulls
92' Cavs
92' Jazz
93' Knicks
93' Sonics
93' Cavs
94' Jazz
96' Magic
96' Jazz

That's just from 1980 to 96! All of those teams were top 10 in both offense and defense.

ah i didnt know you could count the same core multiple times since most people dont when talking about greatest team lists. that means the 80s great teams get counted multiple times I still disagree with some of them however.

the 88 mavs, 92 and 93 cavs? come on now. I'll even pick the thunder over any of the 90s jazz teams you listed and 93 sonics and likely 80s bucks too(at least the 85 team). not being top 10 in defense isnt that bad for the 12 thunder when you're 2nd in offense and 11th in defense Lol.

[Duncan21formvp]

2012 Thunder don't even make the playoffs in 1991.

[SpaceJam2]

2012 Thunder don't even make the playoffs in 1991.

Neither does Jordan without Pippen

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