Chambers was slightly before my time. I started following the game as a kid in 1993. I do remember seeing the Mark Jackson dunk on a VHS highlight tape, and he was pretty good on Tecmo NBA Basketball on the Nintendo...lol.
My favorite eras of basketball that I've witnessed over the years are the mid 1990s (1993 to 1997) and the mid 2010s (2014-2017). Late 90s and 00s were a bit too slow, while the current era has too much of a Morey/Harden influence. I think the other eras I listed were great times where basketball had just the right amount of offense and defense.
Whoa whoa whoa ?? 2000’s slow ? The Kings, Mavs, Suns, Sonics, Warriors ?
I mean I get the Pistons, Pacers, Knicks, Spurs, 76ers and maybe even the Lakers ?
Kings 02 team is probably the most complete team I’ve ever seen… Webber/Bibby/Peja/Christie/Divac/Turk (but even before that with J-Will they were exciting)
Mavs with Nash/Dirk/Finley were fun….
Suns with Nash/Amare/Joe Johnson was amazing
Sonics with Ray and Rashard were also fun to watch
Warriors (We believe) with Baron and Jackson and Monta were high octane as well…
Hell maybe even that 04 Wolves team with MVP KG (so dominant every night) and Spree and Cassell…
There was a lot of good basketball in the 2000’s but what legitimately ended up happening was no skilled big men were coming out of the drafts and it turned into this combo guard iso game and looking for the next euro Dirk…
I mean guys like Oden and Bargnani and Bogut were being drafted #1 overall… Dwight was a nice player but him and Yao, Pau, and Amare were kinda like the last dominant bigs until Blake Griffin came around as a dominant PF…. Otherwise you had okay players but nothing to build a team around like Elton Brand, Kenyon Martin…
Obviously Kwame flopped as did Eddy Curry and to a lesser degree Tyson Chandler and before them Jonathan Bender and after them Darko…
Bosh and Lamarcus were nice finds in their respective drafts in 03,06
But a lot of post play and skilled interior players just did not come thru the league at that time and it’s just kinda continued with some exceptions here and there…
Which has just turned into a 3 point, around the world shoot fest every night now and people consider that a skilled game…