Major honours
Founded in 1966 and largely unremarkable for two decades, the Bulls were transformed into sports history's most concentrated dynasty when they drafted Michael Jordan third overall in 1984. Chicago reached the Finals six times and won all six, with none of those series going to a Game 7. The team completed two separate three-peats: from 1991 to 1993, and from 1996 to 1998 after Jordan's detour into baseball. Coach Phil Jackson and assistant Tex Winter's triangle offense embedded Jordan's scoring within a team structure, Scottie Pippen anchored the other side of the ball as one of the league's best two-way wings, and Dennis Rodman, who joined in 1995, supplied the final piece in rebounding and defense. The 1995-96 record of 72-10 stood as the regular-season benchmark for two decades. The team was dismantled almost immediately after Jordan's retirement and has not returned to the Finals since.
Record comparison
Bars are scaled to the strongest team in this list.
Club legends
Rivalry
Chicago was blocked in the playoffs three seasons running, from 1988 to 1990, by Detroit's "Bad Boys" Pistons, before sweeping them in four straight games in the 1991 Eastern Conference finals to flip the relationship. That series was the effective starting point of the Jordan dynasty.