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Cheeky Monkey
Disagree, the 90s was the NBA at its peak, the bulls may have dominated but the rest of the NBA was as strong as it ever has been. And many of those titles involved a lot of moments where we could've seen a different champ if only one play had gone differently...and not just in games involving my knicks
The 90s was the NBA peaking in a popularity sense. But the move towards individual isolation plays rather than the more ball movement oriented style of the 80s great teams, and the lack of a true challenger for MJ (compared to the great Magic-Bird rivalry) meant the quality of play suffered. Well that and Pat Riley's adoption of ugly ball (though you can also blame the Pistons).
And besides its not like those dynastic teams never lost. But it meant more when they did get upset. Nowadays upsets are commonplace. It loses something.