Even in a decorated NBA family with five rings, Andy Thompson may be the most qualified to debate which dynasty drew the bigger media circus. Whenever his brother Mychal or his nephew Klay claim their teams were a bigger deal, Andy points them to the late 1990s Chicago Bulls.
Mychal Thompson won consecutive championships on the Magic Johnson- and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-led Lakers in 1987 and 1988. Klay Thompson’s Warriors went to the Finals every year from 2015 to 2019. Andy Thompson was around for all of them, but he was also “a fly on wall” for Michael Jordan’s final year, filming the entire 1997-98 season with unprecedented access.