Ranking the top 10 basketball teams of all time

#5 Chicago Bulls 1995-96, 96-97

The Bulls were a beastly defensive team

Every other team on this list is probably a more well-rounded roster than these Bulls teams, but having the greatest basketball player ever on your side tends to take you to historic levels as a team - which is exactly what happened in Jordan's first full season back in the league.

Motivated by their humbling loss to the Magic in the playoffs in 1995, Michael Jordan and the Bulls dominated the league to such an extent for these two seasons that they still hold the 2-season record for win percentage, tallying a 141-23 record through the aforementioned time period.

While Jordan was past his physical prime at this point, he relented in giving up some of his responsibilities to focus even more on being the team's main scoring engine. Adding the most dominant rebounder in the history of the game allowed him to refocus all of his energy on playing defence and dropping 30 points on his opponents every night.

Through the 1995-96 season, he averaged nearly 15 mid-range jumpers a game and converted them at historically elite percentages to the point where it was quite clear that he was the greatest scorer of all time.

The Bulls rampaged through the 1996 playoffs with a 16-3 record before defending their title 2 more seasons in a row.