Wilbon: 2014 Spurs > 93 Sun + 97 Jazz + 92 Blazers + 96 Sonics + 91 Lakers & 98 Jazz

[Infinite_limit]

The Spurs are better than any team the Bulls faced in the Finals.

[Buddy Mignon]

All of those teams would beat this Spurs team.

[jARS mEsH sEt]

All of those teams would beat this Spurs team.

Prove it.

[Infinite_limit]

My rankings are

1. 93 Suns
2. 92 Blazers
3. 97 Jazz
4. 98 Jazz
5. 96 Sonics
6. 91 Lakers

[Findog]

Uh, I can't buy that they're necessarily better than the 93 Suns.

[ambchang]

I'd rank them:

92 Blazers
96 Sonics
93 Suns
91 Lakers
97 and 98 Jazz (either way)

[Findog]

Here's how they rank by point differential:

97 Jazz - 8.8
96 Sonics, 14 Spurs - 7.8
98 Jazz, 93 Suns, 91 Lakers - 6.7

Weirdly, the stats nerds would say the 97 Jazz were the best team Jordan faced and they would be better than the 14 Spurs.

[ImDaNuts]

96 Sonics top of that list

[Malik Hairston]

:lol the Spurs would destroy any of the shitty West teams in the 90s..nostalgia, per par..

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

:lol the Spurs would destroy any of the shitty West teams in the 90s..nostalgia, per par..
Doubt it.

[Clipper Nation]

I'd rank them:

92 Blazers
96 Sonics
93 Suns
91 Lakers
97 and 98 Jazz (either way)

What's sad is that Stern needed to step in and rig the deciding game against the worst team on that list in '98 to protect Dad Killer from an epic chokejob :lol

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

What's sad is that Stern needed to step in and rig the deciding game against the worst team on that list in '98 to protect Dad Killer from an epic chokejob :lol
Clipper fan, dealing in hypotheticals. I'm sure that's the norm. "If only The Clippers could ring"

[Malik Hairston]

Are we also factoring that the teams in the 90s ran vanilla schemes that were based around ISO-oriented offenses, too, tbh?..because that would make the result even more lopsided:lol..

[KobeOwnsDuncan]

Ray Allen sure saved LeBron from that epic chokejob.

[Clipper Nation]

Clipper fan, dealing in hypotheticals. I'm sure that's the norm. "If only The Clippers could ring"
Not a hypothetical.... Pippen wasn't going to be able to play a Game 7 that year because of his back problems, Dad Killer was 2-9 in playoff games without Scottie, and so Stern stepped in with some overtly rigged calls/no-calls (Eisley's bogus shot clock violation, Harper's uncalled shot clock violation, DK's uncalled hit on Malone's arm and pushoff on Russell) to make sure that shit wasn't going 7 :lol