who is the best nba team?
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Lakers are hot and so are the Hornets but Dallas will be back soon
454354
I'd say the Clippers, because they don't attract the high-profile celebrities that the Lakers do, and because of their lack of championships they are considered a "second class" team by most LA fans (not true this year!)
623845
Team has to be the Bulls (Michael Jordan era) Player Jordan , \nnow, Shaq, future D. Wade.
554319
I'd say Texas, they do have the best team. It really depends on what you mean as the best.  From what I understood, go for Texas.
592620
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.........THE BEST TEAM EVER!!\n\nTHE NEW YORK YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  \n\nGO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
28999
The team that scores the most points.
991262
Im gonna say Tim Duncan is overall the best player in the NBA.  He is always either winning championships or going deep in the playoffs.  Wade is good, but not as good as LeBron.
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Personally, I vote for the Detroit Pistons, but if you look a the NBA top ten teams list, the Chicago Bulls had two outstanding teams at a time when the competition was greater:\n\n1964-65 Boston Celtics  62 - 18  (.775) \n\n1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers 68 - 13  (.840)  \n  \n1969-70 New York Knicks  60 - 22  (.732)  \n  \n1971-72 L.A. Lakers  69 - 13  (.841)  \n\n1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers 65 - 17  (.793)  \n  \n1985-86 Boston Celtics  67 - 15  (.817)  \n\n1986-87 L.A. Lakers  65 - 17  (.793)  \n  \n1988-89 Detroit Pistons  63 - 19  (.768)  \n\n1991-92 Chicago Bulls  67 - 15  (.817)  \n\n1995-96 Chicago Bulls  72 - 10  (.878)
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Artest is one of the best playas in the league,  and bibby is one of the best shooters in the league.  but artest is the best player on the team, no doubts
775079
lakers are good...\n\ntimberwolves too, and the heat
645698
The Mavs. This may finally be their year. They've always had great scorers and could outgun their opponents. But now they've learned to win the close games (they've won a couple of OT games in these playoffs already).\n\nThey still have to take on Nash and the Suns, though. That should be a good one.
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My favorite team is the Nets but the Spurs are my second favorite. They have a lot of talent on their team and I like all the guys there except maybe Van Exel. They're an organized defensive unit and that's why they're the defending champs.
588520
The team that plays the best on the day
30458
The Detroit Pistons are the best in the NBA, bar none.  They have stopped the Spurs twice already this year; their offense is runnin' wild now - Flip has let the reins loose on the offensive side (something that Brown never did!) and it shows.  Meanwhile, their D is and always has been, stellar.  They have kicked it up a notch and none of the other teams can compete when the Pistons bring it to them.  Another reason is that they're so deep - the bench is almost ANOTHER starting team!  Joe Dumars has been quite excellent in putting this team together.  Watch for the Pistons to run deep in the playoffs this year, yet again, and quite possibly run the table!
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The only team possibly standing in the way would be the San Antonio Spurs.  I really think the Pistons are the best TEAM in basketball right now, and barring injury, no one, even the Spurs, can take them in a 7 game series.  I think Flip has done an even better job with them than Larry Brown.
530333
The Spurs are a great basketball team. They are down in the series with the Mavericks but make no mistake about it they are a great basketball team games are going down to the wire and if the Mavericks get through this series you can bet they will tell you the best team they played all year will have been the Spurs.... Its my hope that the Spurs are the second best team in the N.B.A but that is yet to be seen I know one thing there is not a team other than the Mavericks left in the playoffs that can say they are a better team than the Spurs.
80258
Gotta go with Detroit. They play with a team first attitude. That always seems to work in the NBA.