No matter a particular NBA champion’s level of dominance, the argument regarding which single-season team is the greatest of all-time will remain a permanently parochial one.
Chicagoans will always believe it’s the 1996 Bulls. The Hollywood crowd would probably go with the deep ’87 Lakers. Sixers fans chirp about their ’83 Moses Malone-led behemoth.
In the Bay Area, it’s the current incarnation of the Warriors, and even if Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and their sharpshooting friends were to go 82-0 then run the table in the postseason next year, Celtics fans would still say the ’86 Celtics would beat ‘em in 6.