I would go with: Wilt, West and Bayor as the best trio ever. Next group I am undecided but comes formt he early to mid 80s: Magic, Kareem & Worthy Bird, McHale, Parish Malone, Dr. J & Toney (he didn't last long, but he was great then). I know Boston's championship run had like 7 HoFamers on a single team, so start with Russell and add the two next best from that team and you have a case too. The fact is Jordan-Pippen-Rodman or Jordan-Pippen-Grant (actually probably better than the former because Jordan and Pippen were younger and Grant at that time overall was probaby the equal player to Rodman then) only had truly grant player who carried the trio relative to the other trios mentioned. Everyone pretty much knows the Bull's 70 win season and two strecthes of 3 titles were due to 1) Jordan being the best player at least in the last 30 years, and 2) a watered down NBA with distributed talent. They had Luc Longley, Bill Cartwright and Will Perdue as their key centers for Pete's sake, as a team they really don't stack up among the best ever except with stats inflated by a weak NBA. Those two Bulls 3 ring teams or the Lakers 3 ring (Oneal, Bryant, I guess Fox or Horry is the next best) in a row teams are the best since the 90s for sure though.
Actually, the Lakers had four 1st overall picks on the same team with Jabbar, Magic, Worthy, and Mychal Thompson. I doubt that this will ever happen again.
That '97 squad was incredible. If only they could've kept from getting injured every other friggin' game. I think their record when playing together that year was something like 41-2.
