NBA Finals - The most impressive champions since Jordan's Bulls - ESPN

Who have been the best NBA champions since the «Last Dance» Chicago Bulls?

There have now been 25 titles won since Michael Jordan's iconic game winner gave the Bulls their sixth championship in an eight-year span during their last run together before Jordan (temporarily) retired and Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Luc Longley, Ron Harper and Steve Kerr scattered throughout the rest of the NBA.

Although no team has matched Chicago's six title runs over that much longer span, the past quarter century has given us a handful of memorable runs, from the Spurs winning five times across more than a decade with Tim Duncan to Jackson's Lakers winning three consecutive championships 2000-02 to LeBron James titles with three different teams to the Warriors reaching six Finals and winning four times under Kerr, now on the sideline.

Using the formula I created to weight regular-season performance (as measured by point differential) and playoff dominance (point differential, adjusted for opposition faced during the run) in my rankings of the greatest NBA teams of all time a few years ago, let's run through the past 25 champions — soon to be joined by either the Boston Celtics or the Dallas Mavericks — since Jordan and the Bulls defeated the Utah Jazz.

RS point differential: +11.6
Adjusted PO differential: +17.0

What happens when you take the core that won an NBA-record 73 games but not a championship (making the 2015-16 Warriors ineligible for this list) and add former MVP Kevin Durant? Predictably, the result was arguably the greatest team in league history and more clearly the best of the past quarter century.

Despite integrating Durant and then losing him to an MCL sprain for all of March, Golden State still won 67