put together your best 5 ( NBA TEAM )
 

mine would go
1. wilt chamberlain
2. michael jordon
3. magic johnson
4.kobe bryant
5. tim duncan

i know its a little strange but kobe magic and jordon can/could play multiple
positions.

1. Latrell Sprewell
2. Shawn Kemp
3. Marvin Barnes
4. Kermit Washington
5. Calvin Murphy

I'd switch Larry Bird in for Kobe as Bird would be a better Small Forward IMO than Kobe would make.

Kobe could be 6th man.

For PG either Magic or Oscar Robertson.

I'm not going to argue with Duncan, Wilt or Jordan!!

How about a now team... The players now, are as good as ever.

Chris Paul
Dwaye Wade
Lebron James
Kevin Garnett
Tim Duncan

Unbeatable, and just imagine what the bench woud look like. You could actually make a bench that could compete/ if not beat this team.

Nash
Paul Peirce
Bryant
Amare
Oden, Bosh, Shaq, Bynum... whoever you want ?

that is a small team.. two PG's and a Shooting guard??

And where is Howard, the best center in the league?

That team would have no shot against Bird/Magic/Jordan/Wilt/Duncan.

I wouldn't have Bryant on the team.

........were all these dudes fighters:confused:

1 kareem abdul jabbar

2 rick barry

3 mike jordan

4 oscar robertson

5 larry bird

:tro:

1st team
C- Bill Russell
PF-Duncan
SF-Bird
SG-Jordan
PG-Magic

2nd team
C-Wilt
PF-Garnett
SF-Elgin Baylor
SG- Jerry West
PG-Oscar Robertson

3rd team
C-Kareem
PF-Karl Malone
Sf-Dr. J
SG-Kobe
PG-Isiah

Kurt Rambis or Yinka Dare
Grandma-ma
Rex Walters
Mateen Cleaves
Jacque Vaughn

Michael, Dont you mean Stinka Dare?

Yea, I knew it didnt look right when I typed it. Some pretty sharp thieves on my list.

Means I gotta have a point.

1Magic
2Jordan
3Bird
4Duncan
5Russell (Ben Wallace with smart pills type... offensively we dont really need him)


Duncan and Russell make up for the lack of footspeed of Bird and Magic
defensively, especially Bird. We make them drive to the bucket.


Ooops.
Exactly the same as Cannon's.
Damn. We are not allowed to agree.

Not all.

Some were adept at making babies (Kemp, Murphy), which earns a spot on my list.

C-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
F-Hakeem Olajuwon
F-Larry Bird
G-John Stockton
G-Michael Jordan

C-Shaquille O'Neal
F-Bill Russell
F-LeBron James
G-Magic Johnson
G-Kobe Bryant

C-Wilt Chamberlain
F-Dennis Rodman
F-Charles Barkley
G-Oscar Robertson
G-Pete Maravich

Current team
C-Andrew Bynum
F-Tim Duncan
F-LeBron James
G-Chris Paul
G-Kobe Bryant

Michael Jordan
Scottie Pippen
Dennis Rodman
John Paxson
Luc Longley

Horance Grant is looking for me as we speak. So is Craig Hodges

If Bill Wennington calls tell him I said hello.

Poor Cartwright, can't even beat out Longley.

AIR CANADA!! :)

Eric Snow
Larry Hughes
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Sasha Pavlovic
Drew Gooden

Those 5 guys absolutely carried the Cavs and LeBron into the finals in 2007. Morty has educated me.

Johnson
Jordan
Bird
Chamberlain
Russell

Add Elton "Out for the Season, again" Brand to this list.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

At least it gives Speights the experience and time to flourish.

Somehow you missed....... "" At Forward.... From the University Of North Carolina .... Number 42 James Wooooooooooorrrrrrrtttttttthhhhhyyyyyyy""

I didn't miss him. I just didn't want to list my 20th team.

20th ??????? team.......... Get back to me when you check the stats & rings !

Rings are overrated, especially when you weren't the player leading your team to them. Robert Horry has a lot of them. Luc Longley and has a few. Karl Malone, John Stockton, Pat Ewing, and Charles Barkley have none. Worthy was a very good player but take Magic Johnson away from him and I don't think his career looks nearly like it does.

Good Lord in Heaven...

hard to leave off the great "big o "...........worthy was underrated, magic always said that;)

No Pistol Pete or Jerry West sightings

If you had a chance to see Bynum in the last couple of weeks before he got hurt, you would understand. His numbers are deceiving. First, he's the third option on his team and option #1 is the reigning MVP and #2 is another all-star. So he's not going to get nearly the opportunities as guys like Howard and Ming. In his last 10 games, he was averaging 20.8 pts, 9.8 boards, 2.6 blocks, and shooting 62% from the field. This was all in 28 minutes per game. You've got to remember that he missed the second half of last year and is just now getting into a rhythm. If you compare him to Howard's career, he compares very favorably. At age 20:

Bynum
28.8 mins
13.1 pts
10.2 reb
2.1 blks
64% fg

Howard
32.6 mins
12.0 pts
10.0 reb
1.7 blks
52% fg

And again, it's worth noting that Bynum is not even close to the focal point of his team's offense while Howard is an integral part of his. I am very confident that once Bynum gets out from under the shadow of Bryant, he's going to be the dominant center in the league.

He is the 2nd best Big man on his own team.
And fragile.

He can be the second best big man but among centers in the league, that's irrelevant. If he were a forward, I wouldn't have him on there. And I don't know that it's fair to say he's fragile because of one injury. Yes one because this latest one was a freak accident that could have happened to anyone. It wasn't like he injured himself.

Have you seen Al Jefferson play?

Didn't stop you from putting Hakeem and Russell in as forwards when both were centers.

since people are mixing positions........here is my 6-9 and over team.

1. wilt at center
2. the dream at power foward
3. bird small foward
4. lebron shooting gaurd
5. magic at point

i know, this needs to end.

True. In the case of both of those guys, especially Russell, I think they could be equally comfortable at the big forward spot. Russell was a center during his era but could not be one in today's NBA, I don't think. Guys like Bynum, Howard, Ming, Shaq, Ilgauskas......they are just too big and strong for him. I believe Russell was around 6-9, 220 or so. He fit in well with other big men of his era but would be way undersized today. I see him in today's game as something like a Rodman type but a better shot-blocker. I've always wondered what Shaq and Hakeem's numbers would look like if they were playing in Chamberlain and Russell's spots and vice-versa. I think Shaq and Hakeem would have dominated even more than the older guys did and I don't know if Chamberlain and Russell could have matched the numbers of the younger guys.

That brings me to another question. Which players from pre-1970 do you all think could have played successfully in today's game and how well do you think they would do? I think a guy like Robertson could play but I doubt he'd be going for 30-10-10 a year like he did then. Maravich could definitely play and be a great player now. Baylor and West could play but I don't think they'd have close to the same numbers they did then, especially Baylor. It's hard for me to see a 6-5 guy going for 17 boards a game. No way Chamberlain or Russell would come close to the numbers they did then but both could play and be really good. Who are some others?

All of what you said may be true but they were still Centers

The problem with comparing eras is that people are simply a lot bigger now than they were 40 years ago. NFL lineman were 235 or 240, 6'3 guys could play forward, etc.

Jerry West would probably have been a better version of Jeff hornachek
Robertson would be like Deron williams
Baylor would be like a better version of Gerald Wallace (who is good even if noone knows who he is)
Rick Barry could play now as well

I'd take Ron Harper over Paxon. I always thought Harper was the most underrated player on their 2nd 3-peat group.

Ron is my all-time favorite player. When he came out of Miami of Ohio, I thought he'd be a star and he should have been the ROY over Person. I remember when he was traded to the Clippers, before his injury, I thought he was the second best shooting guard in the league. He was a poor man's Michael Jordan if you ask me.