re: Scottie Pippen says 95-96 Bulls would sweep Warriors

90s standard rules and the bulls probably win in 7. They didn't always sweep teams that aren't nearly as good as the Warriors so sweeping them is a joke. Todays rules give me the Warriors in 6 or 7

Despite teams playing at a faster pace now than in the nineties there are fewer fouls called. Watch any game from the 90s and the amount of contact in the paint doesn't come close to what goes uncalled in today's game. This idea that the game was more physical comes almost entirely from the occasional hard/flagrant foul that's been legislated out of the game.

Give the Warriors a shortened three point line and they'd destroy the '96 Bulls 4-0. Same for the Spurs.