Which NBA Era Would Assemble the Best Team?

The 1980s were the NBA’s best decade by most measurements. It serves as the league’s apex of popularity (with Bird and Magic turning the sport into a cultural zeitgeist); it’s the most talent-rich era we’ve ever seen, as seven of the top-20 players of all-time (Jordan, Kareem, Magic, Bird, Moses, Dr. J, & Isiah) operated at their absolute peak; it featured two of the three-most transcendent teams in league history (Celtics and Lakers); and had an endless array of touchstone-narratives (the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, the Bad Boys, Jordan’s Bulls ascendence, the Moses/Dr. J/Barkley Sixers, the highlight reel that was Dominique, etc.).

For as talented as the Golden Age of basketball was, is it in fact, superior to the ’90s, ’00s, and ‘10s? It’s a question worth investigating. It’d be easy to arrive at a conclusion by measuring each era by how many top-50 all-time players it produced, but that wouldn’t be fun. The only way to determine which decade is the greatest is to build a team comprised of the best players in each era and have them go head-to-head in a fantastical basketball game. Before we get down to business, here are the ground rules.

Let’s get to it.

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