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Power ranking Michael Jordan’s Bulls teams

By Gerald Bourguet

Photo credit should read VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images
Photo credit should read VINCENT LAFORET/AFP via Getty Images /
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2. 1996-97 Chicago Bulls

  • 69-13 record (.841)
  • +10.8 point differential
  • 114.1 offensive rating
  • 102.4 defensive rating
  • +12.0 net rating
  • 15-4 playoff record (.789)

The 1996-97 campaign featured some of Michael Jordan’s greatest individual moments, including the Flu Game and his Game 1 game-winner in the Finals. That playoff run was as impressive as any, since it featured a gauntlet of opponents tougher than arguably any Bulls championship run … and they still went 15-4.

After sweeping the Washington Bullets (44 wins) to start things off, they handily downed the Atlanta Hawks (56 wins) and Miami Heat (61 wins) in the next two rounds. In the championship, they beat a 64-win Jazz squad led by the league MVP, Karl Malone, in six games. Chicago’s only two losses in that series came on the road in an absolutely rocking Delta Center.

Those Bulls weren’t too shabby in the regular season either, winning 69 games to tie the 1971-72 Lakers for the second-highest win total in NBA history at the time. They beat teams by an average margin of plus-10.8, owned the league’s best offense and fifth-best defense and got incredibly well-rounded seasons out of Pippen and Dennis Rodman.

That this Bulls team was able to thoroughly dominate in Jordan’s age-33 season is incredible to this day, and the only thing holding them back from the top spot is the fact that there’s yet another Chicago team that’s simply more deserving.

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