Best/Favorite/Weirdest NBA Season & Teams (NBA Memories)

[Mavs4Life]

What's your favorite season or the one you thought was the best? Or maybe the strangest?

My favorites out of 90-current has to be 00-04,cause of the Golden days in Dallas. We had a Big 3, got back into the playoffs & had a rivalry with one of the best teams to never win a championship the Webber-Bibby Kings. It was just more fun to watch basketball until 04 or 05, then it just felt diffrent to watch.

[Andrew]

The 1995/1996 season for me, with 1996/1997 being a very close second. Two Bulls championships, 72 and 69 win seasons, the last couple of seasons where many of the greats that came along in the mid-80s were still at the top of their game and a few of the older stars in the league today were the up and coming young players of the time.

I suppose the lockout shortened 1998/1999 season was the strangest, mainly for the lockout alone but also following the Bulls without MJ or Pip for the first time and seeing a lot of the Bulls from the three championship teams playing elsewhere. The 2002 and 2003 seasons, with MJ playing for the Wizards, were a little strange for me as well.

[Mavs4Life]

Yeah the 90s were really a golden age. NBA on NBC, classic. It made you wanna watch basketball.

[Andrew]

Absolutely. My favourite season since that era, as I said in the 2010/2011 in review thread, would have to be this past season. It was a great year for the league.

I also have to give special mention to the 1997/1998 season, which is right up there with 96, 97 and the other Bulls championship seasons. That was the first season I had access to the Internet, so I was able to follow the action even closer than before. Ah, downloading videos from NBA.com on a dialup connection...I enjoy the nostalgia, but I don't miss the download times.

[Mavs4Life]

They annoyed me. And this season was really good, a very intresting & inturigin one. I have to say that 05-06 was actually a boring season for me. I don't know why , I just didn't watch a lot of basketball that season. The last few years weren't tooo enetertaning especially for a Mavs fan.

I was also a big Orlando Magic fan from the Shaq/penny dominance till the T-Mac era. The Magic were my second best for awhile. T-Mac was the orginal Kevin Durant, me & Kobe had fros , & there was no such thing as LeBron. I don't hate him, but he changed the leauge big time. It was Lebron's 3rd season when I felt like basketball changed.

[koberulz]

I have to say that 05-06 was actually a boring season for me.

Wasn't that the year that a couple of 50-win teams missed out in the West, there were a couple of games between first and eighth and the seedings weren't set until the last day of the season was over? That one was probably the best I can remember, just for how competitive it was. That said, not really a fan of the way the season ended for the Lakers. Or overall, really.

[hova-]

When the Mavs were playing really great in 05-06 (remember Suns-Mavs CF? - Dirk putting up 50 on my birthday) and in 06-07, where they won 67 games and Dirk was the MVP, this were really special years for me.

Other than that, I found those 2002-2004 seasons strange, where the Nets made the finals and the Spurs-Nets finals was somehow so unhyped, it felt strange (small market teams).

[Murat]

1999 was a strange one. Bulls was fucked up after a three-peat, Duncan quickly lifted his team to ring and Knicks comeback from 2-0.

[Moz]

The 96-97 season for me... Bulls almost got back to back 70 wins/broke the Celtics' home record, The Stockton buzzer-beater, NBA's 50th Anniversary, the draft class, Shaq going to LA, etc... so many great memories the weirdest will be the 98(?)-99 season... apart from the lockout and the end of the Bulls' dynasty, it's quite strange for me to see an 8 seed go all the way to the Finals

[shadowgrin]

Favorites would be years 1999-2001 (where Reggie Miller and the Pacers and then the Sixers went to the Finals, Vinsanity was still amazing, and Knee-mac was still T-mac), 2004-2005 (Pistons just made the Lakers their bitch the past season and then faced the sexy Spurs in the Finals), 2007-2008 (watching the Celtics big 3 and Chris Paul was beasting it), and 2010-2011 too for the surprises in the regular season (Bulls getting the top seed, Heat not meeting expectations, Celtics killing other teams before the Perkins trade, Spurs being an offensive team, Chris Paul being back, etc.) and the post-season.

Strangest would be the season where Kobe got 81 points and 62? points in 3 quarters (more so than the entire Mavs output of 61? pts.). Strange not in a bad way but it was kinda surreal to me, maybe because I grew up watching 90's basketball.
2007 would have been strange if LeBron and the Cavs won the Finals, good thing the dependable Spurs kept things normal and swept the Cavs.

[Mavs4Life]

2007 would have been strange if LeBron and the Cavs won the Finals, good thing the dependable Spurs kept things normal and swept the Cavs.

Yeah, it would've been awkward to see the worst team with 1 superstar driving them win it all At the time the Cavs were jsut LeBron, but the Spurs played a much better team basketball.

[Mavs4Life]

When the Mavs were playing really great in 05-06 (remember Suns-Mavs CF? - Dirk putting up 50 on my birthday)

OK, that was one of my favorite memories. I loved the postseason, I think it was the regular season that was strange.

[NovU]

For me the best is MJ's late-championship years, when the Grizzlies were still the Vancouver team as well.

Weirdest was this season I'd say. Lebron Bosh Wade all on the Heat my favorite team. Just surreal. Didn't exactly turn out to be the best season but very entertaining till the last series.

[Andrew]

Wasn't that the year that a couple of 50-win teams missed out in the West, there were a couple of games between first and eighth and the seedings weren't set until the last day of the season was over?

That was 2008. All eight Playoff teams in the West won 50 games, the Warriors narrowly missed out on the eighth seed with 48 wins and the Blazers also finished 41-41.

[rise]

2009-10, was really the first year I actively followed the NBA, and it also had my favorite Bobcats team to date with Chandler, Wallace, Felton, and Jackson. Makes me wonder what could have been had they all stayed, but then again, Dallas would not have won their ring without Chandler.

[koberulz]

Wasn't that the year that a couple of 50-win teams missed out in the West, there were a couple of games between first and eighth and the seedings weren't set until the last day of the season was over?

That was 2008.

That recently? For some reason I recall it being longer ago than that.

[Andrew]

I had to doublecheck but it was definitely 2008. Time flies.

[Mavs4Life]

3 years seems like 7 now, but like KG said in 08' ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE! Great quote.