98/99 or 86 for us.
98/99 had Maher, Mee, Brooks, Cat, Rees, Davis, Stiff, Williams, Sapwell and Bauer. (98 had Rillie and Ninnis for Stiff and Bauer).
86 had Green, Davis, Pearce, McKay, Jones, Nelson, Wood, Ali and Spear.

I give it to 98/99 because I actually watched us play that year. Wasn't even born in 86.
On paper and in practice, both of those teams were pretty ridiculous.
Record of 24/9 vs 27/3 gives it to 86.

1986 for me and I got to see every game.

I am waiting for some Geelong supporter to remember the year their team went 0-whatever...

08/09 south dragons

Adam Gibson
Joe Ingles
Trammel Darden
Wortho
Burston

with rhys carter, mika vukona and donta smith/cortez groves off the bench

I love this question and I wonder what Tasmanian fans think of this question and their Launceston Casino City team won the championship and then died the season after only winning 5 games.

I'd love to see if any team led by Derek Rucker gets a mention, he was an absolute gun but highly forgotten in best of teams as he rarely had a solid squad around him with maybe Razorbacks being his bestie maybe the 13-13 Falcons with Terry Dozier, Tonny Jensen and Michael Johnson

1986 Adelaide 36ers just slight beating the 1998 team. Mark Davis, Iceman, Mackay, and Al Green. Needs his number retired IMO.

1995 Perth Wildcats : Grace, Stewart, Vlahov, Fisher, Crawford, Trahair, Cattalini

Very fond memories of that team.

I think this season would have to be the most loaded for the whole NBL in general.

Cattalini wasn't raw in 95.

But I think the most powerful line-ups came in the next few years.
Fisher and Grace became Naturalised, Allowing the Cats to play upto 5 "imported" players.
I'd argue they hit their pinnacle in 99/00:
Fisher, Grace, Stewart, Vlahov, Paul Rogers, Harvey, with Dewey Michaels and Marcus Timmons as the imports.

I am with Josh on this, the South Dragons were the bomb, but then they bombed out, sadly!

Any Melb Tigers teams make the list?

(dont know years... Bradtke, Gaze, Copeland....)

Anstey, Lampley, Barlow, Thomas, Crosswell with Stiff, Hoare, Corletto and D-Mac off the bench was pretty darn good in 08 for Melbourne.

2001 Hawks with C Thomas, M Campbell, G Saville, M Thomas and M Garrison winning the title that year. 3 all time club legends on that team.
The 1987 squad with Borner, McLeod, Bateman and Hammond was probably right up there, if not their best.

Townsville's 2001 GF team was arguably their best:

Brad Davidson
Mike Kelly
Rob Rose
Pat Reidy
Andrew Goodwin

Peter Crawford
Dave Hinton
Dave Pennisi?

Who else was on that team?

All of the big contributors were in their prime and it was a fun team to watch. To think we even had Sam Mackinnon on the roster that year but he was out injured. I reckon that's up there with one of the best teams to never win a flag.

Somehow choked away game 3 at home against a less-favoured Hawks team (back when that stadium was THE BEST home court advantage in the league), and you could say the Crocs have never quite recovered.

"Anstey, Lampley, Barlow, Thomas, Crosswell with Stiff, Hoare, Corletto and D-Mac off the bench was pretty darn good in 08 for Melbourne."

Yeah that was a good team, but I think 97 was better. I will note that I am hugely biased in this call (though I was at both championships.

Gaze, Copeland, Timmons and Bradtke all in their primes is hard to go past. Giddey, Smith and Gordon both great role players, young guys in Egan and Jefferies who were just getting started. A then record win streak came along with that team too after the horror start.

Isaac, as I said in that other thread the 2002-3 Kings roster with hindsight looks pretty good:

Chris Williams (MVP, league leading scorer, second leading rebounder (12.1 rpg), 4.3 apg, one of the best imports this century)
Kavossy Franklin
Matt Neilson (MVP the next year)
David Stiff (Rings baby)
Shane Heal
Ben Melmeth
Gary Boodnikoff (Rookie of the year)
Brad Sheridan
Travis Lane
Michael Kingma (Wookie of the year)
BJ Carter

Great starting five there. Perhaps weren't predicted by many to win it all that first year, but looks pretty good looking back.

Yep, that was a great Kings team. Williams was simply brilliant in that season. That seems to have been his career best season anywhere am I right?

Franklin was an above average to very good import and Shane Heal was an all time great. Nielsen was starting to finally put it together and become as awesome as everyone thought he would be and the rest of that line up had some great role players

06/07 Bullets has gotta be the most stacked team of all time when all is said and done.

Black, Boucher, Bradtke, Bruton, Ere, Gibson, Hill, Mackinnon, Rychart,...

That Brisbane teams bench was the equal of any other team's starting 5.