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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1033154, member: 652"] Good call they are a top 5 team of alltime. Simmons said in his book he would pick the 2001 Lakers to beat the 1996 Bulls because nobody on Chicago could stop Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe could have atleast played Jordan close. The weakness of those Bulls teams were teams with dominant centers. Those Bulls teams faced the 1995 and 1996 Orlando Magic with Shaq and split those series losing to the Magic in 95 and sweeping the Magic in 96 but Horace Grant, and Nick Anderson got hurt during that series which helped the Bulls win easily. I think the 86 Celtics/87 Lakers could handle those Shaqobe Lakers teams, but those teams in 80's didn't play in a diluted league and had deeper teams. [/QUOTE]