1985-86 Boston Celtics Record: 67-15, 40-1 record at home

86 Celtics best team I ever saw!🍀

No way. List doesn't include the 85-86 Celtics, automatic disqualifier. I'm a diehard Lakers fan and can concede that easily. Easily make the list in front of the 91-92 Bulls. My top 5 in order: 95-96 Bulls, 86-87 Lakers, 85-86 Celtics, 00-01 Lakers, 15-16 Warriors. Reason #4 and #5 on my list aren't higher is because of bench depth. Those first three could go 10-11 deep on any night.

As a die-hard Lakers fan the fact that the '86 Celts aren't on here makes this list moot

No 86 Celtics, forget about it.

'82-83 Sixers were great. Dr. J. Moses Malone, Bobby Jones, Andrew Toney, Maurice Cheeks

No Celts? Bogus list

86' Celtics belong somewhere in that list. Also the 00-01 Lakers were better than the Golden State team and so were the 94' Rockets. Accolades don't tell the whole story.

Take out the 91-92 Bulls and plug in the 85-86 Celtics. Then this list will be accurate

2014 Spurs, 1986 Celtics.

A Life Long Laker Fan amd Like many here totally agree the 1986 Celtics belong on this list. What about the 1971-72 Lakers? What about any of the 1960's Celtic Teams (9 titles in 11 years) or the 1967 76ers with Wilt Chamberlain?

Boston has won 17 championships, but none of them made the list. The 86 Celtics should have made the list.

The Bird-led 1985-86 Celtics need to be on here.

AI straight butchering those names. Damn. And the 1986 Celtics should replace the first bulls team at #3. That team was insane good.

This list is crummy. 72 Lakers 33 game winning streak. 61-66 Celtics, 67 Philly 76ers, 86 Celtics, 77 trailblazers, 2014 spurs.

Your opinion comes up short with no 85-86 Celtics on this list, I'd take my chances with them against any of the teams you mentioned.

Parish, kevin Mchale, Larry Bird, Dennis Johnson and Danny Ainge. Best line up

1986 Celtics, 1972 Lakers, everyone else is looking up at these two teams.

86 Celtics. Bird, Parish, McCale, Denis Johnson, Danny Ainge and Bill freakin Walton off the bench!!!! Not a team on your list would have beaten them.

86 Celtics top 3 and arguably the best.

My DUBS deserved the #1 ranking as best playoff team all time! 🏀

95-96 Bulls is really a great basketball team ever. 72 wins, 10 lose, with 15-3 record of Playoffs plus an NBA trophy, this team is really something.

The 80's was the best and most competitive decade in NBA history. The 96 Bulls were #1, but the 86 Celtics and 87 Lakers were the next two. The Warriors were great but modern basketball isn't nearly as intense.

85-86 Celtics should have been on the list.

1986 Celtics needs to be on this List!

Best Team EVER - The 1985-86 Boston Celtics season was the 40th season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They finished with the best record in the league at 67-15, including a 40-1 record at home (37-1 at the Boston Garden, 3-0 at the Hartford Civic Center). Those 40 home wins set an NBA record which would only be matched by the San Antonio Spurs in 2016. Widely regarded among the greatest teams in NBA history, their 67 total wins were one win shy of tying their franchise record of 68 wins set in 1972-73, and tied for seventh all-time for total wins by a team in a single season. Larry Bird won his third consecutive MVP award and Bill Walton won the Sixth Man of the Year Award. The team was anchored by the "Big Three" frontcourt of Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, which is frequently ranked among the best frontcourts in NBA history. In the playoffs, the Celtics swept the Chicago Bulls( MJ never defeated Bird as a player) in three games in the First Round, then defeated the Atlanta Hawks in five games in the Semi-finals, before sweeping the Milwaukee Bucks in four games in the Conference Finals to reach the NBA Finals for a third consecutive season. In the NBA Finals, the Celtics faced off against the Houston Rockets in a rematch of the 1981 NBA Finals, which the Celtics won in six games.

San Antonio Spurs 2013-14 big 3 Duncan, Ginobili, Parker with Coach Pop

All things being equal, the 67 Philadelphia 76ers had a 68-13 record. Not too shabby. And no can ignore the Bill Russell era with 11 championship rings. That man was a monster!

83 Sixers would be hard to beat by any team !

I think the 1971 -1972 NBA champion the LA Lakers should have been also included here. They have a 69-13 regular season record and 33 regular season games winning streak.

1970 New York Knicks , Reed, Frazier, Debusshere, Bradley. You can't leave them out.

I'd take the 86 Celtics in a 7 game series against any of those guys

no I disagree. any list like this must also include the 86 celtics and the 72 lakers

TGhe greatest team in nba history is the 1986 Boston Celtics and they aren't even on this list. You blew it.

82-83 76ers...65-17...12-1 playoffs...NBA Champs...enough said.

Whoever put this list has no idea the NBA existed before 1989

No 86 Celtics no list! An absolute monstrosity!!

Yeah, there’s gotta be a Celtic team in there somewhere.

Vlade 'rhymes with blade' DIE-vack & 'sto-JUH-kah-vick😂😅I cant continue!!!!🙃🤣

85-86 Celtics are easily the best team ever. 86-87 Lakers should be second best. None of the others come close to those two teams.

1985-1986 Boston Celtics team dominated everyone.

Your missing 1972 Lakers,1986 Celtics,

85-86 Celtics

For those people who think i 86 Celtics, remember 95-96, 96-97 Bulls was the only team in the history of NBA to win more than 140 games in regular seasons plus of course NBA champions.

No Phila? 67 (they beat the Celtics) or 83 (12-1 in the playoffs)

86 celts 40-1 at home cmon man ,greatest TEAM ever ,what a crap list

WTF made this list? I hate the Celtics, but that 86’ team could be the best all time. No 83’ Sixers, they were stacked. My personal top 5, no order. 87’ Lakers, 96’ Bulls, 83’ Sixers, 86’ Celtics. 17’ Warriors.

I do have to admit MJ was (40-0) against Bird ( play-offs ) 40 pts per game and 0 wins.

What about the '69 Celtics with Russell as player coach who came from a 3 to 1 deficit and won the title?

Anyone noticing how he pronounced the Kings foreign players names?

No 86 Celtics is a travesty At least you got number 1 right

The fact that the 2014 spurs are not here is insane. They played the most beautiful basketball in nba history, and won the championship. They literally beat Miami with aging players. Put some respect on the Spurs

Yes Sir....props to all of them

I call BS... No top-5 list of all-time NBA teams should be without the 1971-2 Lakers. How could you overlook a team with Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich and The Logo (Jerry West)? And I didn't even mention the 33-game streak...

I just have to say, the mispronounciation of the Kings players' names is laughable.

The pronunciations of names had me dying 😂😅

86 Celtics #1.

Best team of all time with MJ PIP,and Rodman.

Just for fun. Take every team considered. Take away their best player, then ask yourself which team is the best team without their top player. The 96 Bulls probably are not top 20 without Jordan. That is a little unfair because the Bulls had Jordan the undisputed goat, but if you want to measure the talent of the rest of the team then think about it.

Let me guess! An algorithm did this because no human would have left off the 86 Celtics!!!!!! Ridiculous!😮🤷

1. Duncan/Ginobili/Parker/Horry Spurs 2. Bird/Chief/Cornbread Celtics 3. Shaq/Kobe Lakers 4. Pippen's Bulls 5. Olijawon/Drex/Smith/Horry Rockets. Spurs had the best TEAM play, if litmus is unbeatable teams. The best Bulls team wasn't beating the Spurs if a time machine existed. Magic's Lakers could be anywhere from 2-6 on my list. I'm looking at matchups. And individual seasons, not overall team history.

Whenever a statement is made with a top 5 teams, or the best at whatever it maybe, it will be questioned, especially when the statistics don't support that statement. I question it because it left off the 1967 Philadelphia 76ers who won 69 games and went on to win the NBA Title that year. The 1972 LA Lakers also won 69 games during the regular season and the NBA Title. The only teams to exceed those two teams where the 1996 Chicago Bulls with 72 wins and a NBA Title, and the 2016 Golden State Warriors which won a record 73 games, but lost in the NBA Finals. The NBA has been in existence since the late 40's do some real research before making statement which cannot be supported with accurate stats or data.

Best team of all time 76ers with Wilt, Hal Greer, Wally Jones, Luke Jackson, Chet Walker and Billy Cunningham.

Lakers are number watched them since I was a teen still watching them

The 2000-01 Lakers were the #2 seed in the Western Conference. The San Antonio Spurs were the #1 seed that year

Criminally butchered Peja and Vlade‘s names 😂

Bulls had a tough matchup against the knicks in 91-92 with that knicks team led by Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley and Tim McCormick ??? Seriously

C'mon man no '85-'86 Celtics!?!?! What???? I'm a Lakers fan but there's no doubt that '86 Celtics team deserved to be on that list.

All the teams you listed were no doubt great teams, but what about the 1972 Los Ángeles Lakers? That team that reeled off a 33 game win streak during the season. I am a Cavaliers fan by the way.

71 Lakers with THIRTY THREE straight wins!!

I’m a huge laker fan, but how can this list not have one of those mid 80’s Celtics teams on here? But who would they replace?

The 1986 Celtics are the best team I've ever seen.

Glad to see so many surprised '86 Celts not on the list. The team had 5 HOF players on it. One loss all season at home. Maybe the greatest passing team in NBA history. C''mon man.

Honorable Mentions: *1985-1986 Boston Celtics (Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish) *2007-2008 Boston Celtics (Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo, Coached by Doc Rivers) *2013-2014 San Antonio Spurs a.k.a The Beautiful Game (With Kawhi Leonard, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, Danny Green, Patty Mills, Coached by Greg Popovich) *1964-1965 Boston Celtics (With Bill Russell, John Havliceck, Sam Jones, Coached by Red Auerbach) *1966-1967 Philadelphia 76ers (with Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Billy Cunningham) *1969-1970 New York Knicks (with Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Dick Barnett, Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley and Cazzie Russell) *1971-1972 Los Angeles Lakers (With Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Gail Goodrich and Jim MacMillan) *1982-1983 Philadelphia 76ers (With Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Bobby Jones) *1988-1989 Detroit Pistons a.k.a The OG BAD BOYS (With Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman, John Sally, Rick Mahorn, Adrian Dantley, The Microwave Vinnie Johnson and Mark Aguirre Coached by Chuck Daly) *2015-2016 Cleveland Cavaliers (with LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, Coached be Ty Lue) *1970-1971 Milwaukee Bucks (with Kareem Abdul Jabbar) *1972-1973 New York Knicks (with Walt Frazier, Willis Reed and Earl The Pearl Monroe) *2012-2013 Miami Heat (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, Coached by Erik Spoelstra) *1998-1999 San Antonio Spurs (with David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Sean Elliott, Avery Johnson, Mario Ellie and Steve Kerr, Coached by Greg Popovich) *1996-1997 Chicago Bulls (with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman, Coached by Phil Jackson)

1967 76ers were the greatest team EVER, Wilt ( Hall of fame ) Hal Greer ( Hall of Fame ) Chet Walker ( Hall of Fame ) Luke Jackson , Billy Cunningham ( Hall of Fame ) Larry Costello ( Coach Hall of Fame ) Wally Jones, Coached by Alex Hannum ( Hall of fame coach) 68-13 Then the Wilt Chamberlain 72-73 Lakers ( 2nd Best Ever ) Now Start the Debate

Yeah not having a of the Celtics is horrible.

The Lakers 1987 championship was their 17th? That's not even close! It was their 10th! Nor was it their second in a row. The champions prior to them were the 1985-86 Celtics (who should have been in this spot). Finals results are below. 1986: Celtics defeated Rockets in six 1987: Lakers defeated Celtics in six 1988: Lakers defeated Pistons in seven 1989: Pistons Defeated Lakers in four Use a sports almamac instead of relying on your faulty memory.

1a.1996 Bulls 1b.1972 Lakers 2.1987 Lakers 3.1986 Celtics 4.2001 Lakers 5.1965 Celtics 6.2017 Warriors 7.1967 Sixers tied 1992 Bulls 8.2016 Cavs 9.2005 Spurs 10.1983 Sixers tied 2013 Heat

"Vlade Die-Vac" LMFAO! That's funny. Vlah-de Dee-Vahs is the pronunciation

2002 Lakers and 2003 Lakers MVP: the refs.

I think you mean emphatic (as opposed to empathietic).

So many errors and lies , i don't know where to begin. The 96 bulls did not have any 40+ game win streaks. You left off a boston team that won 8 titles in a row and u called Vlade Divac (vlad deevack) and Toni Kukoc (que-cock)

Number one I ever saw did not win a championship. 1988 lakers. Swept e every teem in the playoffs before magic and Scott both got hamstring injuries. They were amazing.

nice 1 unstoppabulls 95 - 96 nba season❤

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anyone who doesnt have the 86 celtics here is crazy. they faced much harder teams than the 96 bulls did. there's arguments to be made they would have beaten the 96 bulls and even if they wouldnt theyd be just behind them. Bad list.

I dont agree when people are saying kevin durant and the warriors...it should be stephen curry and warriors..because kd is not the face of the warriors..

1.Celtics 1986 2. Lakers 1985 3.Bulls 1991 4. Spurs 1999 5. Pistons 1989

1983 philadelphia 76ers

2004 Pacers would have made this list if not for the Malice in the Palace. Prime Ron Artest,Jermain Oneal, Reggie Miller, Dale Davis, Stephen Jackson

above 80s only 1. Jordan Bulls 2. Magic Lakers 3. Bird Boston 4. Kobe Shaq Lakers 5. GSW and Spurs Tie

You cannot ignore the Boston Celtics in the 1960s with Bill Russell. I find your video and choices to be ludicrous for ignoring Bill Russell and the Celtics. You sounded like JJ Reddick. I also don’t think you can ignore Larry Bird and that era of the NBA. Without the transformation brought to the NBA by Bird and Magic the NBA was headed toward oblivion. Like Reddick you know the statistics but ignore the larger picture and the heart, skill and quality of the different eras of the NBA. This video was awful.

pick any one of the bulls championship teams and then tell me 1 player other than jordan who would have started on the 85-86 celtics.

Celtics and Lakers 80s, Bulls 90s best team ever, warriors 2016 still the best season ever

2004 Detroit pistons had a helluva starting 5 and what about Isaiah Thomas, Joe dumars, vinnie Johnson, they were the best trio of guards in NBA history! You need to do a little more research dude!

86 Celtics

Old teams would never prevail today. Any team where the center stood under the basket for the entire game, would get 20 3-second violations. Too many rules changes for the earlier generation of champs to adapt to before illegal defense, before 10 second rule. Todays champions won't be time travelling back to Wilt, Oscar, and Russel. Otherwise todays champs wouldn't have a chance with that eras champs. No bridging of that gap makes trying to compare impossibly inaccurate.

I still believe that Warriors 17 will sweep the Bulls 96 in both era rules. Steph change the game of basketball. Not only players evolve, but also the playmaking. It will be a raining 3 from the Warriors.

The 96-97 Bulls were better than the 91-92, and the 86 Celtics had better overall record than the 00-01 Lakers!

Automatically disqualified itself as a legitimate video when recounting the 92 New York Knicks it said: ".. featuring players like Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley and Tim mccormick..." Tim mccormick. Not Mark jackson. Not Gerald wilkins. Not Xavier mcdaniel. Not John starks. Tim mccormick. Everything else after that was a joke and I turned off the video.