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Since you have been watching NBA basketball, weather it was watching Laker teams from the 80's live or on tape and watching the Laker teams with Shaq and Kobe. From 1 thru 3 how would you rank the all time Laker best teams. Here's my list and my reasons

1. 1985 Lakers - I have them at 1# because Kareem was still at the top of his game averaging 22 points a game and was the MVP in the NBA Finals. You had Kareem still dominant to go along with Magic, Worthy, Michael Cooper, Rambis, Bob McCadoo who was the Toni Kukoc scoring punch off the bench for that team.

2. 1987 Lakers - Kareem wasn't as dominant as 1985, but he was still averaging 17 points a game and still drew double teams in the post. Magic had his best season averaging 23.4 points, 12 assist and shot 53%. Michael Cooper was defensive player of the year and provided 3 point shooting when the big 3 got double teamed. Byron Scott and Magic along with Derek Harper and Rolando Blackman of the Mavericks were the 2 best backcourts in the West that season. They acquired Mychal Thompson at Mid-Season to be the guy to defend Kevin McHale 1 on 1 in the low post.

3. 2001 Lakers - There regular season wasn't as strong as the 87 Lakers, but they were awesome in the playoffs going 15-1 with there only loss coming to the 76ers. Kobe was ridiculous in both series against the Spurs in which he destroyed Antonio Daniels and against the Kings. This is one of the reasons the spurs went out and got Bruce Bowen and Gionobli. To get more size at the wing position and a better defender for Kobe. Shaq was also awesome during those playoffs and our perimiter shooters were on fire. Especially Fisher

Hard to argue against that list but the 1971-72 lakers deserve a mention here. The team with Jerry West, Wilt and Goodrich won 33 in a row, a record that stands till today.

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1999-2000 Lakers-Shaq was in a zone that year. I believe they could of beat any team, including the MJ Bulls.

1985 Lakers-I was only 4 years old, but looking at them on tape, including Magic, Kareem, Coop, James, they was all in there prime, so you gotta give them some credit.

93-94 Lakers- I know they was not that great, but Nick(my fav Laker) Elden, Cedric, Eddie, Vlade, they was so fun to watch!!!

I think you mean the 94/95 Lakers. Great point though and those exact same players were on the 94/95 team.

They got to the 2nd round and took the Spurs to Game 6.

One of my favorite squads also because nobody expected them to do that well.

without knowing how these years playoffs will turn out, this has been my most enjoyable lakers season. the lakers offseason started off with kobe demanding a trade, jerry buss publicly saying he'd try to trade kobe, kobe demanding bynum be traded. then, once the season started, bynum brokeout, farmar/sasha/ronny improved dramatically, fisher returned to the lakers, odom had his best season as a laker, the front office pulled off two great trades bringing in ariza/gasol and getting rid of kwame/evans/cook. people expected the lakers to battle to make the playoffs, instead they got the 1st seed with kobe possibly winning the mvp award. being an underdog is just more satisfying.

1. this season
2. 94/95 with ced/eddie/nick/divac/elden etc.
3. 00/01 domination.

well I've only really watch 4 seasons so probably

1. 05-06
2. 07-08
3. 06-07

The showtime !

A healthy 2003-2004 team.

Verbal wrote:A healthy 2003-2004 team.

We coulda made a run at 70 wins with that squad. 4 HOF'ers in the starting line-up, thats not even fair. Oh well the best team ever on paper doesnt always win the championship.

i'll go with playoff runs and excitement.

the back to back LAKERs in 88. 7-7-7. all or 3 of their series went 7 games and clutch after clutch performance was awesome to see. first time in 20 or something like that years that a team went back to back.

02 LAKERs. the finals was a blowout. but the western conference playoffs were just on another planet. especially horrys game when he won it with a 3 against sacramento. and then finishing off the series in sacramento. on a side note, those sacramento teams were very good. and some of them are doing well now. peja. turkoglu. bibby. just a very good team. and it was supposedly their time and theyre year. but we took their homecourt advantage and took 2 from them on their home court.

80 LAKERS. this was the year that the whole NBA landscape had changed. from the beginning of that run, a whole nationwide rivalry ensued between the east coast and the west coast. 2 rookies in bird and magic just stole the show. and magic as a rookie, hit 42 pts and played center, forward, guard in the finals. THAT FEAT will never be done again, nor will a rookie be looked at to carry on that type of load, and win the title.