No, 86 Celts were better. Most of the team was
and they still were an extremely dominant team. Also you underestimate, the Bill Russell team. I would put the 08 Celtics in the top 3, perhaps. Put it like this, the 96 Celtics took on the Twin Towers of Ralph Sampson and Hakeem who were basically combining for like 50 pts a night as well as defensive monsters, and putting them on ice, and getting them into foul trouble, they may be the most fundamentally sound NBA Champions I have ever seen. The only team to come close, were the '04 Pistons and the '03 Spurs.