Draymond Green is not afraid to speak his mind at all. He has always been very open while sharing his thoughts on basketball and how he approaches the game. That is why him having a podcast is a more natural fit than Klay Thompson on a team alongside Steph Curry. However, Draymond doesn’t need just this podcast to ruffle feathers, and he has his Twitter for that as well.
Draymond decided to rewatch the 1998 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Utah Jazz and came to the conclusion that the 2017 Warriors are far superior to either of the teams that were playing a form of basketball that would work in that era.
Green went so far as to say that his 2017 Warriors would beat the John Stockton and Karl Malone-led Utah Jazz by 40 points and beat the iconic 1998 Bulls by double digits. The 1998 Bulls were a 62-win regular-season team and romped through the NBA Playoffs that season, as it was MJ’s last season with the Bulls.
I’m watching the 98 Bulls vs Utah in the Finals… I can’t help but notice our 2017 team would’ve beaten these Bulls by a dub and these Jazz by 40 if they’re going to play these brands of basketball. And that’s why it’s dumb to compare Era’s
— Draymond Green (@Money23Green) July 25, 2022
Basketball evolves from era to era. It isn’t fair for Draymond to see how the ’90s Bulls played basketball and then say that the 2017 Warriors would beat them because there has been a natural evolution in terms of strategies and how the game is played. 20 years from now, the team that becomes a dynasty then will argue that they were better than the Warriors because of the natural evolution of the game that will take place.
The 1998 Bulls had a lot of versatility that would have been useful in the modern era but were perfect for their era. If you put the 2017 Warriors in the ’90s, players from the Bulls could easily say that they would beat the Warriors by over double digits.
Everyone is a product of their generation of basketball and will always say things to protect the same. However, this take by Green proves how incredulous this conversation of the ‘greatest team of all time’ is becoming. There are no standard parameters that can be applied to figure out which team is better than the other, so we should start appreciating the teams for what they were rather than what they would be in different eras of basketball.
