Best decade for the NBA?

[♪alt13]

In your opinion in which decade was the best basketball played.

 

[spycam1]

Nice thread.

I was born in '92, so it's harder for me to say...but it's gotta be the 80's or 90's.

 

[♪alt13]

You're 21? Shouldn't you be out trying to have sex with whatever will hold still long enough and snorting things you find in the carpet at house parties? What are you doing wasting your friday online? Hurry and go get drunk and do something you will regret while you still can.

 

[NUMBERICA]

90's. It's not really even close for me.

 

[ema]

90's. It's not really even close for me.

This.

 

[addictionary]

Ooook here we go again. One of the toughest choices. I watched Jordan, Stockton, Kemp, Payton, Penny, Rodman, Garnett (1st edition), Robinson, Hakeem, Drexler, Rice, Tim Hardaway, Zo, Shaq, Mutombo, Iverson, Marbury and many others that made me fall in love with the game. But as the archives were unleashed at my feet in the hands of technology, I watched older leagues and the ABA, then I fell in love with Dr. J era. So I'm divided between them.


~Went for the Doctor.

 

[CitizenofCapua]

Ill go with 90's too. Still watching some games when i find the opportunity especially of early 90s.

This is a good basketball torrent website, sometimes they uploading classical games (mostly late 80s and early 90s) beside current games and its pretty cool.

https://bt.davka.info/

 

[Duck Rodgers]

90's > '00's. That's all I know. NBA TV started airing new NBA decade recap episodes for the 90's recently. NB90's series. Definitely worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq2NMv5hFlE

 

[One Brow]

The decade you started watching for the first time, obviously.

 

[NUMBERICA]

The decade you started watching for the first time, obviously.

The 90's is where the athleticism of the league just about plateaus, the zenith of Stockton and Malone, franchises still had franchise players, the Dream Team (the very first one ever, and the best one), the emergence of arguably the most dominant player ever (I wouldn't argue that), and Hakeem. Oh yeah, and there's this guy named Michael Jordan. I think.

Maybe people got more into basketball during the 80's and 90's because the product was much better than before (or after for that matter).

 

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I voted for the 90s, and there wasn't much internal debate. BUT, I do like how much more sophisticated defenses have become in the past handful of years.

 

[♪alt13]

I voted for the 50's because I wanted to see what color it would be in the bar graph.