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Great NBA teams live on well beyond the seasons in which they played.

The world remembers their success. It can't forget the superstars suiting up or the indelible moments that allowed them to rack up regular-season victories and postseason heroics. They become their own brands, enduring forever, even as their primary competitors fade away into the obscurity of distant history.

Now that they've reclaimed the Larry O'Brien Trophy from the Cleveland Cavaliers, the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors unequivocally fall into this category. But how high can they rise?

To determine the all-time hierarchy, we're turning to NBA Math's Team Rating, which shows how well a team played on both ends of the court by comparing its success (per 100 possessions) to the league average. That way, changing styles from era to era are accounted for, such that a score of 100 always indicates a squad was perfectly average in the context of the league at that time.

Teams' regular-season scores and postseason marks were averaged together, because we wanted to account for the extra volume of the first 82 games and the increased importance of the contests that follow. It is possible to be an all-time great and fail to win a title, but the losses that lead to elimination will naturally lower a team's score.