Shaquille O’Neal said his three-peat Lakers teams would have easily beaten Michael Jordan’s Bulls.
But you know what? I think at full strength the Kevin Durant Warriors would have beaten both of them. It’s just no one romanticizes them like that because of how they came together and then apart.
It’s really simple math...73 + KD. And there’s one other number that’s really important, three. For instance the 2016-2017 Warriors, Durant’s first season with the Dubs, hit 94 more threes than the '96 Bulls and 2000 Lakers title squads did combined.
Now I’m not saying the three-ball is the end all be all but if basketball evolves as I believe it does, that Warriors team was the game at its absolute peak.