1992 Team
Patrick Ewing
Charles Barkley
Larry Bird
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
David Robinson
Karl Malone
Scottie Pippen
Clyde Drexler
John Stockton
Chris Mullin
Christian Laettner

1996 Team
David Robinson
Hakeem Olajuwon
Shaquille O'Neal
Charles Barkley
Karl Malone
Scottie Pippen
Penny Hardaway
Grant Hill
Reggie Miller
Mitch Richmond
Gary Payton
John Stockton

[This message has been edited by arenateam (edited 8/13/2013 10:45a).]

1996 had Penny. No contest.

1992 had Laettner! EOT

Bird / Magic were old*. Penny / Hill in prime before injury.

Players in common:
David Robinson
Charles Barkley
Karl Malone
Scottie Pippen
John Stockton

Swapped guard/forwards:
Jordan, Bird, Magic, Drexler, Mullin, Laettner
for
Penny, Hill, Reggie Miller, Mitch Richmond, Gary Payton

Swapped posts:
Ewing
for
Olajuwon, O'Neal

I'll take '96. You hate to lose Jordan, but Hill/Hardaway were really freaking good at that point while Magic was in a weird place and Bird was just barely holding it together physically. Olajuwon OR Shaq for Ewing would be a big upgrade down low; getting both is brutal. The original Dream Team was unfair in the post with Robinson, Barkley, Ewing, and Malone. Robinson, Barkley, Malone, Olajuwon, and Shaq is unconscionable.

Michael Jordan. Dafuq is wrong with y'all.

What Ulrich said

Id take the Tune Squad as long as it has MJ on it! 92.

if we're talking everyone in their prime - '92

if we're playing in '92 - '92

if we're playing in '96 - '96

if we're playing in '94 - '96

^LOLWUT. We're talking the '92 as they were that year versus '96 as they were that year. Nobody would compare teams using a different year from when the were relevant.

The '96 Bulls in 2013 would get washed by the Wizards (I hope) if they played today because they'd all be 50 years old.

I just can't get past Shaq & Hakeem to go alongside Robinson in the middle.

Ewing would probably get in foul trouble against both those guys.

96 also had home court advantage.

Game played in 1900 -- '92

Game played in 2100 -- '96