Where do you rank the recent Golden State Warriors championship teams in your modern NBA pantheon of great teams? Where do you have the great San Antonio Spurs teams ranked as well amidst Kareem and Magic's Showtime LA Lakers, MJ's Chicago Bulls, Bird's Celtics teams, the '72 Lakers with Wilt and West, etc.
OT: Where do you rank the recent Golden State Warriors championship teams in your modern NBA pantheon of greatest teams?
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The list starts with the 1966-1967 Philadelphia 76’ers team. They were dominant and played a large number of games against the Celtics dynasty during the season and playoffs and dominated them.
Your argument would be more persuasive if they'd won more than just that single championship.
True, but they reminded me of say the great Bears team for one year brilliance. They should have won the following year being up 3-1 against Boston before losing last three. They had the yearly monumental hurdle of getting past the league’s greatest dynasty and for my money the greatest dynasty in all of sports history.
The 66/67 squad started off 46-4 before losing 4 of 5. They basically lost a chunk of their games in that little streak.
For sheer purity, those late 60’s early 70’s Knicks teams were a joy to watch. That was the quintessential time of the Garden and those teams where the ball would not touch the floor once during Knicks possessions was hoops at its finest.
In my lifetime, I’d rank all of the usual suspects in some order including the teams noted above by OP. I’d include the Knicks late 60’s- early 70’s and the great Sixers team as well on that list.
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