![]() ![]() "With them being more mentally dominant than we were, they knew as soon as we started complaining they had us," Bulls forward Horace Grant said in the documentary. ![]() Chicago might have won an NBA championship sooner, given Jordan was in his prime, if not for Detroit. On the repeat run, the Pistons went 15-5 against the Pacers, Knicks, Bulls and Blazers. In 1988-89, Detroit went 15-2 in the playoffs while mowing through the Celtics, Bucks, Bulls and Lakers. The "Last Dance" showed again what doesn’t get talked about enough: The back-to-back championship teams were good enough to beat anybody at the time - and not just with their elbows.Ĭonsider the two NBA championship playoff runs. You can still appreciate how good the "Bad Boys" were. They were the dominant two-time NBA champion in 1988-90 that gets lost between the Lakers-Celtics rivalry of the 1980s and the Bulls’ run in the 1990s. That takes away from what Detroit really was.
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