The 2015-16 Golden State Warriors are two wins away in the NBA Finals from actually becoming the greatest NBA team of all time. Probably. They'll have won 73 games in the regular season and an NBA championship. But even that isn't enough for some people. Several former NBA players just won't let the past die.
All of the former NBA players who think their teams would beat the Warriors
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The most popular answer in the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. Ron Harper, Dennis Rodman, Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen are all on record picking the Bulls over the Warriors. Scottie Pippen literally thinks the '95-'96 Bulls would SWEEP the current Warriors team. SWEEP!
Here's @PaulPabst and @ScottiePippen. Thx @boomersooner81 for this question... @ATT #GameOn #ad pic.twitter.com/SJrIFAZvvP
— Seton (@HiMyNameIsSeton) April 2, 2016
And here’s Harper adding his thoughts.
@Howsito @DJ_ILLusive45 @LetsGoWarriors @SteinmetzNBA records are made to be broke but we would've sweep that team for sure!!!!
— Ron Harper (@HARPER04_5) November 11, 2015
The full video here is fantastic.
I disagree with Mychal Thompson and his son Klay, my "Showtime" Lakers would beat the Warriors.
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) June 7, 2016
Shaq also thinks Shaq and Kobe would take Steph and Klay.
“If you’re using those rules, we’d win. Now we use these rules these days, we’d still win, because you wouldn’t be allowed to touch me, you wouldn’t be allowed to touch Kobe,” O’Neal said. “So yeah, that’s how I always look at it.”
"Today's rules, we'd kill em'....you can't hand check. Bogut would be Australian barbecue chicken." - Shaq on his Lakers vs. Warriors.
— Paul Pabst (@PaulPabst) June 8, 2016
Kevin McHale on the 1986 Celtics? At least he's reasonable about it.
Or throwing shade. Whichever.
"Look, if we played our rules in '86, we'd win because those poor guys we'd just beat them half to death," said McHale, who coached the Houston Rockets team that fell to Golden State in last year's Western Conference Finals. "If we played today's rules they'd probably win because we'd all foul out."
Obviously Charles Barkley had a take on this situation:
"You think any of those teams would be down to Oklahoma City 3-1? Heellll no." - Charles Barkley on how Bulls, Lakers, etc compare to G.S.
— Andrew Perloff (@andrewperloff) June 8, 2016
And my favorite? Well that would be...
