Which year long timeframe was responsible for birthing the best NBA team?

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Which year long timeframe was responsible for birthing the best NBA team? 

Post#1 » by zimpy27 » Fri May 6, 2022 5:05 am

Which year-long timeframe was responsible for most NBA basketball team?
Not asking which single date year but year-long timeframe for births.

Example, you may choose Jordan born on Feb 17th in 1963 as a key part of talent.
Now you look for most talent around Jordan and you find from August 5th 1962 to August 4th 1963 you get this team:
Dumars, Jordan, Barkley, Malone, Hakeem -- Hornacek, Mullin, Schrempf, Thorpe, Ewing
Or you find from March 26th 1962 to March 25th 1963 you get this team:
Stockton, Jordan, Drexler, Barkley, Hakeem -- Adams, Alvin, Schrempf, Thorpe, Ewing
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Re: Which year long timeframe was responsible for birthing the best NBA team? 

Post#2 » by falcolombardi » Fri May 6, 2022 5:14 am

the year with hakeem, barkley, malone and jordan you mentioned may already be it tbh

no othet combo of 4 different top 20-30 all time players (including two top 10 player peaks) that i can think of
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Post#3 » by zimpy27 » Fri May 6, 2022 5:23 am

falcolombardi wrote:the year with hakeem, barkley, malone and jordan you mentioned may already be it tbh

no othet combo of 4 different top 20-30 all time players (including two top 10 player peaks) that i can think of



May 27th 1984 to May 26th 1985:
CP3, Roy, LeBron, Melo, Marc Gasol -- Deron, Redick, Deng, Millsap, Noah

Is that better than a Jordan one?
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Re: Which year long timeframe was responsible for birthing the best NBA team? 

Post#4 » by Dr Positivity » Fri May 6, 2022 6:24 am

zimpy27 wrote:Now you look for most talent around Jordan and you find from August 5th 1962 to August 4th 1963 you get this team:
Dumars, Jordan, Barkley, Malone, Hakeem -- Hornacek, Mullin, Schrempf, Thorpe, Ewing
Or you find from March 26th 1962 to March 25th 1963 you get this team:
Stockton, Jordan, Drexler, Barkley, Hakeem -- Adams, Alvin, Schrempf, Thorpe, Ewing


As falco said I strongly doubt anyone is beating these, Duncan/KG/Allen/Iverson is probably one of next best
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Re: Which year long timeframe was responsible for birthing the best NBA team? 

Post#5 » by Dr Positivity » Fri May 6, 2022 6:32 am

After looking at basketball reference's birth year tracker TIL someone born in 1902 played in the league. There was a coach that activated himself for a few games in 1948.
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Re: Which year long timeframe was responsible for birthing the best NBA team? 

Post#6 » by zimpy27 » Fri May 6, 2022 6:35 am

Dr Positivity wrote:
zimpy27 wrote:Now you look for most talent around Jordan and you find from August 5th 1962 to August 4th 1963 you get this team:
Dumars, Jordan, Barkley, Malone, Hakeem -- Hornacek, Mullin, Schrempf, Thorpe, Ewing
Or you find from March 26th 1962 to March 25th 1963 you get this team:
Stockton, Jordan, Drexler, Barkley, Hakeem -- Adams, Alvin, Schrempf, Thorpe, Ewing


As falco said I strongly doubt anyone is beating these, Duncan/KG/Allen/Iverson is probably one of next best



Oh yeah that's a good one:

June 5th 1975 to June 4th 1976
AI, Miller, Allen, Garnett, Duncan -- Jason Williams, Mobley, Joe Smith, Van Horn, Big Z,
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Post#7 » by zimpy27 » Fri May 6, 2022 6:45 am

Dr Positivity wrote:After looking at basketball reference's birth year tracker TIL someone born in 1902 played in the league. There was a coach that activated himself for a few games in 1948.


Awesome

What about 29 Sep 1988 to 28 Sep 1989:
Westbrook, Harden, Butler, Durant, Griffin -- Rose, Gordon, DeMar, Morris, Serge -- IT, Tyreke, Batum, Bojan, Whiteside

Or just the year of 1988
Wesbrook, Curry, Durant, Love, Jordan -- Rose, Gordon, Batum, Gallo, BroLo
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