There is no "best" team, as "team A" may have the best record but can't beat "team B" who has a worse record, but "team C" can always beat "team B." The point is, no team is the best, but some team is the best record wise. Those would be the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics, and the New York Knicks all trading off best records throughout the 2009 season. Some may say that the team with the most championships is the best team, but that is not always true.
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It is difficult to judge different Eras, but generally speaking the best basketball team to play was the Chicago Bulls of the 1990's which were able to win 6 rings in 8 years led by Michael Jordan and Scottie pippen.
Currently, the best teams in the NBA (2009 season) are the Boston Celtics, which are the current champions and the Los Angeles Lakers in the West, who played them in the 2008 NBA Finals.
The Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic are both also considered in the top 4 at the mid season mark of the 2009 campaign.
Minn-Los Angeles Lakers. If 3 Dynasties are not enough for you, than I don't know what YOU mean by "Best NBA Team."
I think LA Lakers and Boston Celtics are the top 2, cuz they have more championship than other team
the best team would have to be the celtics with bill Russel and bob cousy, they won 8 STRAIGHT championships and 11 of 13 championships, probably the best team in NBA history
UPDATE 2012
Really, the best team in the NBA is your favorite team. The top three, the "A", "B", "C" teams would be the Boston Celtics, L.A Lakers and the Chicago Bulls, especially the Celtics and Lakers because half of the NBA's history is dominated by the two teams and both teams won more than 10 championships. The Bulls would become the third best out of the three, because they only six championships but if Jordan and Pippen had stayed longer it would be much longer.
In the modern era, there is still to be decided. If LeBron James worked with his teammates with the Cavaliers, they would have probably won seven championships and destroyed Jordan and the Bulls' record. What sickens me is people acted like the Cavaliers won titles, even though they didn't because James was a ball-hog back then. This became obvious in the 2007 Finals when they were beaten by the Spurs. There's Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, when they were swept by the Mavericks in 2011 and the Thunder in 2012 this kind of took Kobe's career a little downhill, but now that Dwight Howard is signed with the Lakers there is a little more hopes, because the Lakers have a really poor defense and they need someones like Howard. As for the Heat, the 2010-2011 was all disappointments. With James, Bosh and Wade everyone though the Heat would break the Bull's record of 72 wins. The Heat got swept by opponents they knew they could beat in the 2010-2011 season, 3-0 by the Bulls, 3-1 by the Celtics and 3-0 by the Mavericks. The 2011-2012 regular season fared much better, they beat Dallas 2-0 games, Bulls tied 2-2 games each team taking home wins, 3-1 against the Pacers but still struggled 3-1 against the Celtics.
It just all "depends" on your definitions of "best" whether it be "best" record. For best records, the Thunder, Bulls and Heat were the top three in the NBA in 2012. The NBA has attained much talent and never stopped, from the Jordan-era and the Larry Bird and Magic Johnson-eras, to an era where superstars like Dwayne Wade, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose and LeBron James rise to stardom.
When it comes to championship legendaries, it is probably the Celtics, Lakers, Bulls and Spurs. Two from the Eastern Conference and two from the Western Conference.
In my opinion for 2011, it was the Bulls, Celtics and Mavericks. For 2012, it was the Thunder, Heat and Bulls. For 2013 I believe it'll be the Lakers, Heat and Thunder even throw in the Bulls there now that they've got Vladimir Radmanovic and Heat has got Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis.
The best NBA team of all time is the Boston Celtics. The Celtics have more championships than any team in baskeball history with 17. They won their latest title in 2008 when they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 2. The Lakers are second to the Celtics with 14 titles, but trail the Celtics in head to head championship match-ups 9-2. After these teams would be the Chicago Bulls with 6 titles during the Michael Jordan era.
NBA 2012-2013 Standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic: Boston
Central: Cleavland
Southeast: Miami
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Northwest: Denver
Pacific: LA Lakers
Southwest: Dallas
http://espn.go.com/nba/standings
the lakers are the best nba team no matter what!!! they have 5 great starters too!! Derek fisher Ron artest pau gasol Kobe Bryant Andrew bynum !!! lebron wont beat Kobe again!! Los Angeles is going for a three-peat!!!!!!!!!!1
The greatest NBA team of all time, 95-96 Chicago Bulls. They have the best record ever in the NBA with 72 wins 10 losses. The 95-96 Bulls won the championship that year.
6× NBA champion, 6× NBA Most Valuable Player, 19× NBA All-Star, 2× NBA Finals MVP, 10× All-NBA First Team, 5× All-NBA Second Team, 5× NBA All-Defensive First Team, 6× NBA All-Defensive Second Team, 2× NBA scoring champion, 1970 NBA Rookie of the Year1970, NBA All-Rookie Team NBA all-time leading scorer, NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team, 3× NCAA Men's Basketball Champion 3× NCAA Basketball Tournament MOP, Naismith College Player of the Year 2× USBWA College Player of the Year
The L.A. Lakers.
The Jazz. The Bulls obviously. Michael Jordan is the greatest player of all time.
the all time player in the nba is Kobe Bryant
5 time MVP 6 time nba champion and final MVP 14 time all star 10 time nba scoring champion Nba defensive player of the year 10 nba first team 3 time stealing champion
Wade's accomplishments...NBA CHAMPION (2006)NBA FINALS MVP (2006)7x ALL STAR (2005-2011)NBA SCORING CHAMPION (2009)2x ALL NBA FIRST TEAM (2009, 2010)3x ALL NBA SECOND TEAM (2005,2006,2011)ALL NBA THIRD TEAM (2007)3x ALL DEFENSIVE SECOND TEAM (2005,2009,2010)NBA ALL ROOKIE FIRST TEAM (2004)NBA ALL STAR GAME MVP (2010)2x SKILLS CHALLENGE CHAMPION (2006,2007)GOLD MEDAL WINNER WITH TEAM USA (2008 OLYMPICS)BRONZE MEDAL WINNER WITH TEAM USA (2004 OLYMPICS)BRONZE MEDAL WINNER WITH TEAM USA (2006 FIBA CHAMPIONSHIPS)MIAMI HEAT ALL TIME LEADING SCORERMIAMI HEAT ALL TIME ASSISTS LEADERESPY AWARD- BEST BREAKTHROUGH ATHLETE (2005)ESPY AWARD- BEST NBA PLAYER (2006)SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR (2006)
The NBA video game to me is NBA 2k10
the world best NBA player that i think is MJ
Probably now but over all yes.
Right now is NBA Live 09, but soon will be NBA Live 2010, but it depends what 2K SPorts brings to the table with KObe Bryant on the front of NBA 2K10. NBA THE SHOW SERIES IS NOT Up FOR GRABS. BAD NBA GAME SERIES!
Kobe Bryant is the best of all time no comparison