Anyways, I was scrolling my timeline and stumbled across something actually unique. On Twitter, in these days? Incredible, I know. So props to this man, he might be a sorcerer or some shit.
The task is to put together a 10 man team of players who've played from '99-'20 and no one could have been on the same team nor been born in the same country. Some ground rules, Jordan technically played in my lifetime but that'd be semantics and i'm not with the whoee of that game so he's off limits. Secondly, the team must make sense if they were to play an NBA game together in the sense where i'm not gonna pick 8 centers and 2 back to the basket forwards.
Starting with the obvious ones here, Greece, Germany and the US. Giannis, Dirk and LeBron. I'm a Kobe guy through and through but there's gonna be a lot of guys who are gonna need shots in this game. LeBron will be my primary distributor in the starting 5 and Giannis is coming off the bench. Dirk slots in at the 4 to stretch the court and hobble up and down the court.
Researching for this i've learned that this would be much easier if I was 4-5 years older. To round out my starting 5 will be.......Jokic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Manu.
Center- Yao Ming (Rockets, China)
Forward- Dirk Nowitzki (Mavericks, Germany)
Forward- LeBron James (Cavs-Heat-Lakers, US)
Guard- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Clippers-Thunder, Canada)
Guard- Manu Ginobili (Spurs, Argentina)
With this squad of starters i've got fuckin' everything. On any given game i've got 3 dudes who can give you an EASY 40. Bron has it easy on offense so he'll be there on defense, Shai will lock up 1-3 and Yao is literally 7'6. Good luck. I've got shooting, dribble penetration and the passing between Manu and Lebron? Forget about it.
Now for the bench unit, this could be surprising some of the names you are about to read. I spent over an hour putting heavy mathematical and analytical research into this. Question it at your own peril. No really, brother this criteria royally fucks me over.
Center- Nikola Jokic (Nuggets, Serbia)
Forward- Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks, Greece)
Forward- Andrei Kirilenko (Jazz-Wolves-Nets, Russia)
Guard- Buddy Hield (Pelicans-Kings, Bahamas)
Guard- Benjamin Simmons (76ers, Austral)
Switchability, length, shooting, passing. What 6th man is fucking with Giannis? The hardest one to include for me was Buddy Hield because his defense is god awful and he seems to think he's far better than he really is. The option for me was Hield & Jokic or Siakam & Bogdanovic. Jokic is the best player in there thus that outweighs all for me.
Kirilenko feels like a steal, people forget how much of a menace he was on D and his legit point forward skills. He played in the wrong era, which is weird to say considering he only retired in 2014. His stats don't even come close to doing him justice.
The internet is very rational and i'm sure everyone will be able to accept this and have a good wholesome conversation about it!
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