I dont think any modern team including the heat or the mavericks or the spurs or the jazz could take them. they had a great big man in elvin hayes, a supershooter in bob "basketball" dandridge, and a great bench headed by charles johnson. they blew through the playoffs and dominated. i think they are the best team ever. i await your arguments.
2006-06-28 02:37:44 · 10 answers · asked by william the wizard 3 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Many teams were better than the '78 Bullets: '87 Lakers, '67 Philly, '83 Philly, '71 Bucks, '72 Lakers, Celtics '81 thru '88 etc...
I do however agree that no team today could beat them in a seven game series.
Not even the Bulls of the '90's would beat them.
In my honest opinion, the greatest team to ever take the floor is the 85-86 Celtics. Greatest frontline in history (Bird, McHale, Parish, Walton), fantastic backcourt (D. Johnson, Ainge), and a great bench.
They blew thru the regular season going 67-15, losing only once at home (40-1), went 15-3 in playoffs including 10-0 at home (That's a 50-1 home record, not even the '96 Bulls could match!)
The poster who mentioned the '83 76ers also has a good arguement. That was an awesome team. I just believe that the '86 Celtics would be too strong up front for the '83 Sixers, although it would be a great series.
2006-06-28 15:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by Hoopfan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The greatest team ever to take the floor in Basketball was probably the ’83 76ers. Dr J., Andrew Toney, Maurice Cheeks, Marc Iavaroni, and Moses Malone as you’re starting 5 and Bobby Jones coming of the Bench. Not only did they win their division by 9 games but also the next division winner was 14 games behind the 76ers. They lost one game that year in the playoffs and sweep a Lakers team that had Magic and Kareem as well.
You have one of the top 10 centers of all time in Moses. Arguable the best pure point guard of his time in Maurice Cheeks, a pure 3 point shooter before there was a 3 point shoot in Toney, and what can be said about Doc, he was the greatest 3 man ever to play the game. On a side note that would be one hell of a game to watch.
2006-06-28 09:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by hair_of_a_dog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no prolly not, i bet the 1996-97 Bulls who won 72 games would beat thm in a best oof 7 series 4-2, and if it wuz jus one game the 96-97 Bulls would win 125-107 or sumthin like tht. Bulls had a legend in Michael Jordan, a great player in Scottie Pippen, a Bad *** who played great D in Dennis Rodman and a great 6th man in Toni Kukoc. i can think of at least 5 other teams who could beat the 1978 Bullets, but i've made my point.
2006-06-28 11:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by Matt P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'91 Bulls
2006-06-28 09:41:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
’83 76ers or 90's Bulls....that actually would be a hell of a game, "hair_of_a_dog" is correct.
2006-06-28 12:08:24 · answer #5 · answered by K-Deeznuts 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'06 brazil world cup team!
2006-06-28 09:42:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have to agree with the bulls.... jordan era
2006-06-28 09:51:29 · answer #7 · answered by lim 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. go wizards!
2006-06-28 09:52:10 · answer #8 · answered by david c 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2006-06-28 10:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by deshaun v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-28 09:40:28 · answer #10 · answered by HackneyDemon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋