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agree on 2001 Lakers we was rollin' we were an AI once in a lifetime game from AI from sweeping the whole thing ...Celts defense in 2008 was amazing though and Pierce shot his wad ...he will NEVER was that good before or will be THAT good again ...
1. 2002 Lakers
2. 2008 Celtics
3. 2005 Spurs
4. 2004 Pistons
5. 2010 Lakers
6. 2009 Lakers
7. 2003 Spurs
8. 2007 Spurs
9. 2011 Mavericks
10. 2006 Heat
Had trouble with the rankings. The only one's I knew for sure were the 2002 Lakers at 1, and 2011 Mavericks at 9 with 2006 Heat being the weakest championship team in the past decade.
agree on 2001 Lakers we was rollin' we were an AI once in a lifetime game from AI from sweeping the whole thing ...Celts defense in 2008 was amazing though and Pierce shot his wad ...he will NEVER was that good before or will be THAT good again ...
Problem I would have with saying 2002 Lakers were the best champs in the past 10 seasons is that they had to get help from the refs to beat a Sacramento Kings team whose core never even won a championship in the WCF. That Lakers team was still very good, as all championship teams are. But they weren't as dominant, especially in the playoffs, as the previous Laker team in 2001. And I think the Kings series and the controversy around it at the very least diminishes some of the greatness of that team.
Back at ya, dude...the 2005 Finals was EPIC!!! IMHO, the greatest Finals of the past 20 years, hands down.
That Finals made a lot of Spurs and Pistons fans really respect the other team.
The 2006 Heat are one of the worst championship teams in the history of the NBA.
FWIW, my rank would be:
2002 Lakers
2008 Celtics
2011 Mavs
2003 Spurs
2004 Pistons
2010 Lakers
2005 Spurs
2009 Lakers
2006 Heat
2007 Spurs
It's really hard to rank teams with no stats and intagibles but here's a go:
2006 Heat
2004 Pistons
2005 Spurs
2002 Lakers
2011 Mavs
2010 Lakers
2009 Lakers
2008 Celtics
2003 Spurs
2007 Spurs
Don't like having the Pistons at the top but they were really consistent and won against
a stacked team with a roster of role players.
O5' Spurs beats said team in 7 games, which had to have been a very compe ve all-time series.
02 lakers just because they were stacked, in spite of the controversies
'11 Mavs beat defending champion and a few stacked teams with Dirk and role players
09-'10 Lakers are again tough because the Magic were a joke and the Celtics were
robbed, still I believe they are a better team than 08 Celtics and probably would
have won in 08 had Bynum been healthy. Plus Celtics didn't really dominate the comp
during the playoffs, being taken to 7 games in each series.
03' and 07' Spurs who played very weak Eastern conference entries, probably the weakest comp in the 10 years.
edit: on second thought Heat team probably could've beaten all these teams come to think of it since shaq cancels himself out.
Mavs winning the Finals without HCA has to put them in the top 3 in my opinion. Kobe or Duncan never did that.
2002 Lakers
2008 Cletics
2003 Spurs
2011 Mavericks
2004 Pistons
2005 Spurs
2009 Lakers
2010 Lakers
2007 Spurs
2006 cHeat
Only reason I put 2007 Spurs that low is because of how horrible the entire league was that year.
Many rag on the 2006 series but despite the *largely-percieved* rigging, it was an exciting series. The 2007 Finals was a wire-to-wire snorefest and the only people who could watch it were Spurs fans and masochist Cavs fans.
If you are a Cavs fan, you are a confirmed masochist. No need to repeat that for them.
lol, you obviously didn't watch the NBA the past 10 years
Why would any of yall s, especially Spurs fans, rank the 03' Spurs as the best SA le team this decade??The other two le teams along with still being a defensive force and having a prime TD, had Parker and Ginobili as established all-stars. The 03' team was way too dependent on Timmy.
2005 Spurs
2002 Lakers
2004 Pistons
2008 Celtics
2007 Spurs
2011 Mavericks
2009 Lakers
2003 Spurs
2010 Lakers
2006 Heat
2002 Lakers
2008 Celtics
2005 Spurs
2004 Pistons
2011 Mavs
2003 Spurs
2010 Lakers
2009 Lakers
2007 Spurs
2006 Heat
Why the are people raking the '03 Spurs over '05?
How are the Celtics so high? They needed 7 games to beat the Hawks, 7 games to beat Cleveland, Pistons choked after taking a 2-1 lead and should have beaten them. Lakers weren't a great finals opponent either (they would have been a decent opponent with Bynum in the lineup, but without Bynum didn't have enough at all)
Everyone keeps going on about how great that Celtic defense was. What are their stats? opp fg % and ppg? I don't think their defense was better than the Pistons in '04 or Spurs defense either.
The Spurs '07 Championship team was one of the lower ranked ones and I might agree with that, but the Spurs swept that Cleveland team the year before and the Celtics needed 7 games to beat them. Does anyone remember Ray Allen choking it up shooting a piss poor percentage all the way to the finals? There was no team to take advantage of him choking. He choked so much that I thought he had nothing to lose by the time he got to the finals and was relaxed as no one made him pay for it.
Kendrick Perkins also said that they did not want to play the Spurs, they were hoping LA would make it instead. I think they felt too comfortable against LA and just didn't really get a challenge in those playoffs. No disrespect, but I don't think LA were good enough (without Bynum) to challenge Boston that season as I would have liked to have seen how Boston faired against a fully healthy Spurs team, who would have put some pressure on them IMO. We might not have won, but we would have put some pressure on.
I didn't know how bad Manu was until the end of the series when I saw that he averaged just over 10 ppg or so for the series and made it look like Sasha can actually guard him. I mean he averaged 20 ppg in these playoffs with a broken arm so his ankle must have really held him back. Ray Allen got to play against Vujacic in the finals whereas it would have been interesting to see him matched up against Bruce Bowen. I just don't think that Celtics team really got a decent challenge and they barely beat teams they should have swept.
Pistons were the biggest disappointment, they should have made at least 4 finals IMO.
Saying all that I would still rank the Lakers, Spurs, Pistons higher than the '08 Celtics. I'm just not impressed by the '08 Celtics to put them ahead of those other teams.
'11 Mavericks I won't rank yet as it's too early, but I will say they are up there.
I would also like to see the reasoning for this. Makes no sense at all. 2005 had basically the same core without a 38 year old David Robinson, with much betters Parker and Ginobili, with a just as good Tim Duncan, and with better role players.
As far as this ranking goes, LA 2002 is the best team because it had prime Shaq and near prime Kobe, and very good role players. Its been proven that this team would beat most if not all other post MJ team in a series if things go the normal way, no other core has been as dominant.
2011 Mavs and 2003 Spurs have to be ranked side by side. Both had one star playing at an unusual high level, both have 1 hall of famer ways past his prime (Kidd and Robinson), both were barely a playoff team without their best player.
It seems that some people are voting on how unlikely it was for said team to win the tle, therefore making it a bigger accomplishment rather than how good the team really was.
I have no idea why anyone would rank the 2002 Lakers #1, did you forget about how they got there in the first place? That should should have been the 02 Kings, just like the 06 Mavs.
I am going out on a limb and say that you can pretty much swap the first three
08 Celtics
05 Spurs
04 Pistons
03 Spurs
11 Mavs
02 Lakers
10 Lakers
07 Spurs
09 Lakers
06 Heat
Mavs were basically a 65 win team this year if not for injuries... some might underrate them due to a subpar regular season by champion standards..
also 16-5 in the postseason w/ an impressive MoV, beating 7 all-NBA players... beating Kobe, Durant, and James
what a run, what a team
Why are the 2002 Lakers ranked so high? I'd have thought everyone would pick the 2001 Lakers who steamrolled through the playoffs. Not sure how the Spurs would have went against them if Derek Anderson wasn't injured and could score more that 2 points for the series, but still the Lakers almost swept the whole playoffs.
As for the 2002 Lakers they barely beat the Kings who may have choked game 7 and also the Spurs had the lead in the 4th quarter of every game and choked closing the games out. The Spurs had a rookie Tony Parker and no Manu and they had a lead in the 4th every game and simply just choked it away in the last 5 minutes in most of the games.
2001 Lakers team is easily the best Lakers team IMO. I'm baffled that people keep putting the 2002 team up there.
Edit : Just realized that the 2001 team doesn't make the cut as it's only for the last 10 seasons. I still wouldn't put the 2002 team first though.
Let me clairfy then.
The east has been since the Jordan era, and just cuz Shaq moved out west and gifted LA some les doesn't rank them among the greatest teams of all-time. You beat the Pacers and Nets, gimme a break. Those teams
are laughable comp.
The Pistons team wins, but I think they caught lightning in a bottle as they
didn't win again.
Spurs, again benefit from some comp, but was able to beat the
somewhat competent Pistons, a team with not one HOFamer on it.
Cavs, joke finals. Shaq comes back east with a stacked team, le, not
the same Shaq, but still a presence, more or less.
Celtics were okay.
Kobe played a seriously fraudulent Magic team and won a horribly officiated
game 7 which they couldn't back up. Mavs probably could've
beaten them last year if they played them last year.
Basically, whether or not the games are fun to watch is not the point, but
the level of comp and imbalance has been a joke since the lock out
so really they're all on the same level of iness.
+1
If Timmy didn't have plantar fasciitis. If no and-1 on Dirk by Manu -- we would've destroyed that team.
you're dreaming, Spurs couldnt have beaten that team on their best day
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