I think I have to go with Walton/Lucas weren't fit to sniff Stockton's jock, let alone Stockton and Malone's. I do hate the comparison of eras, but for argument's sake the Walton Blazers weren't playing the 90's Bulls in the Finals.

I agree with the entire thread.  It's frustrating to compare players across eras for all of the obvious reasons.  Kareem did remain a dominant force across 3 decades of the NBA, but he really wasn't THAT much more dominant against the likes of Wilt and Russell as one might think considering the general advance of physical characteristics in the NBA.  If the premise that the 60's guys were stiffs and unathletic, why didn't Jabbar average 40/25?  He had a great team around him in Milwaukee, one of my all-time favorite defensive teams and as I remember, one of the top scoring teams of the era.
   My thoughts are that if you take the premier players and bring them up in today's environment, they'd be bigger, faster, etc as well.  Russell had to go head to head with Wilt, who was a track star and had legendary strength.  They'd both have better games if they played against today's competition instead of the generally mediocre level prevalent then.
   As I said, no disrespect intended for today's players.  It just seems that their primary skills are one on one, and the game looks like 5 games of one on one going on simultaneleously with one ball.  I especially enjoyed the question posed in that thread about the lack of acceptance of the triangle.  Another challenge to today's "superiority" would be our dismal performance in international play.
   All that said, my vote is still for Jordan/Pippen.  I just was suggesting that Russel and his 13 championships or whatever it was certainly puts him on the list.