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I don't know much about the '90 Bulls team, but this doesn't sound right. The '95-'96 Bulls were arguably the best team ever. '96-'97 is just one year later, and the team went 69-13 I believe.

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I didn't really get ClarkNasty's comment either. The 89-90 team was very good (55-27) and ran into what was at the time their buzzsaw--The Bad Boys but that team wasn't anything like the 96-97 team. That Jazz team was actually pretty good and it is unfortunate that their peak (unfortunate for Sloan, Malone and Stockton) was during the Bulls reign.

I think the second version (second 3-peat) of the Bulls was better than the first. Anyway, that 96-97 team lost the last couple games and was coasting or they would have won 70 games twice in a row. Ron Harper, MJ, Pippen, Rodman, and Longley w/ a bench of Kukoc, Wennington, Kerr, and Buechler was better than any other previous Chi teams. The addition of Rodman was a defining piece to making them one of the greatest teams in history--in 96-97 he averaged over 16 boards a game. The year before Rodman, Pippen and MJ were all defensive 1st team. This team was a monster whereas the teams that played the Lakers, Blazers, Suns were damn good but I don't think anyone thought they were unbeatable.

I think Utah taking that Bulls team to 6 games was proof of how good they were.