The 1995-96 Chicago Bulls are considered by many to be the greatest team in NBA history, but Stephen Curry’s Golden State Warriors went on to top them in two significant regards. They won 73 games during the 2015-16 season, beating Chicago’s league-record 72 wins in 1996, but any hopes they had of becoming the greatest team of all time were dashed when they lost the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers. They reloaded the following offseason by adding Kevin Durant, and when the 2017 playoffs rolled around, they posted an NBA-best 16-1 record en route to one of the easiest championships in league history. The 1996 Bulls lost three times on their way to the title.
This has created a divide in the “best team of all time” debate. The Bulls fit the traditional definition. They had the best record of all time and perhaps history’s greatest player in Michael Jordan. The Warriors are a bit more complicated. They…
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