What decade do you feel was the most fun to watch the

[latverian41]

NFL and NBA?

I'm going to start with the 90s cause with the exception of a few micsers most don't remember the 80s.

90s,2000s or 2010/2020?

[AnaboLecter]

I'm Canadian so 2010s just because we won the Finals in 2019

[BigElephant]

NFL is the 2000s for me. Offenses were starting to do new things and become more passing oriented, but rules weren't totally fukked in favor of offenses yet. There were great QBs like Manning, Brady, Favre, Brees, Warner; and some of the best offensive skill players we've ever seen like Peterson, TO, Moss, Tomlinson, Alexander, Faulk, Fitzgerald, Harrison, Steve Smith, Andre Johnson, Bruce, Ochocinco. And then there were dominant defenses that also had to face great passing games and locked them down: Ravens, Buccs, Patriots, Steelers, Eagles. It was also the infancy of fantasy football, so it was just a bunch of guys playing year long fantasy leagues together. Not this widespread daily fantasy BS that's pushed on almost every pregame or analyst show nowadays.

As for NBA, I've watched a ton of NBA games archives from the 80s and 90s, but didn't watch live until the 2000s. 2000s were the best defensive era, and the most fun for me to watch. You had superstars like Kobe, Shaq, McGrady, AI, and Lebron doing their thing, and you had great team units like the Spurs and Pistons. Not only was the defense better and not called foul on everything, guys actually tried on defense more consistently. Teams also ran more offensive plays as well. It wasn't just ISO screen ISO screen spam or cross half court and jack a 3 that is prevalent in the modern era.

[weiss1967]

I think my first decade was the best, I remember being completely engaged watching sports. Knew all players names, scores and who scored in each game from top of my head.

70s, russkie playing against Canada. Bobby Hull, Mikhailov etc, Tretiak. Epic battle.

[MetroBrah]

My favorite NBA series is still Bulls vs Jazz in the 90’s. That’s the era that I grew up watching and made me fall in love with basketball.

Second place is Kobe and Shaqs Lakers vs Allen Iversons 76ers.

[BigElephant]

My favorite NBA series is still Bulls vs Jazz in the 90’s. That’s the era that I grew up watching and made me fall in love with basketball.

Second place is Kobe and Shaqs Lakers vs Allen Iversons 76ers.

I wish I started watching earlier and got to watch the Bulls dynasties live. I mean you can still appreciate the skill and strategy watching archive games from the past but it hits different when you're watching it as it's happening, and you can experience the flows from game to game, and you don't know the outcomes.

The first series you mentioned makes sense. The second one was a murder though, Philly never stood a chance. If I had to pick a favorite Lakers series, well first it would be the Finals against Detroit as I'm a Pistons fan lol. But if it's a win it would probably be a western conference series. 04 against the Spurs would be one option, or the 7 game series against Portland at the start of the 3 peat. Obviously the Sacramento series was great but marred by sketchy officiating. The 2010 series against Phoenix was great too but that was without Shaq.

[HaiMeesk]

As a Boston fan, the 2000's were the best. All of those championships made up for all those previous years of outright misery.
As far as top tier athletes in their prime (Jordan, Tyson, Bo, Gretzky, Lemieux, Sanders, Bird, Magic) it'd be 1980's/early 90's.