All-Time NBA Roster Draft

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

Wilt Chamberlain's favorite player...

 

Nate Thurmond, F/C

 

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1985)

2x NBA All-Defensive First Team

3x NBA All-Defensive Second Team

NBA All-Rookie Team (1964)

7x NBA All-Star (1965-1968, 1970, 1973, 1974)

NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team (1996)

First player to record a quadruple-double (1974)

[Brett Favre 0]

To form the best passing duo out of the PF and C spots, alongside Karl Malone..actually 2-5 with LeBron and Rick Barry..

 

 

Dave Cowens.

 

NBA Co-Rookie of the Year (1971)

NBA MVP (1973)

All-NBA Second Team (1973, 1975, 1976)

NBA All-Defensive First Team (1976)

NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1975, 1980)

NBA All-Star Game MVP (1973)

NBA All-Star (1972-78)

NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team (1996)

Two Time Champ

Averaged 17, 13 and nearly 4 assists for his career.

Defensive beast, good passer, will bring some hustle and energy for my team.

[Lt. Al Giardello 0]

I was going to take Cowens instead of Alonzo... But I went with Alonzo because of his shot blocking. Cowens was a beast of a rebounder and a good defender, but I already have that with Garnett. But still I'm suprised to see Cowens slip this far.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

I originally had Cowens picked but went with Thurgood for his shot blocking. Cowens is an excellent choice though. I'm shocked that so many great centres slipped below guys like Robert Horry.

[AboveAverage484 0]

To form the best passing duo out of the PF and C spots, alongside Karl Malone..actually 2-5 with LeBron and Rick Barry..

 

Dave Cowens.

 

NBA Co-Rookie of the Year (1971)

NBA MVP (1973)

All-NBA Second Team (1973, 1975, 1976)

NBA All-Defensive First Team (1976)

NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1975, 1980)

NBA All-Star Game MVP (1973)

NBA All-Star (1972-78)

NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team (1996)

Two Time Champ

Averaged 17, 13 and nearly 4 assists for his career.

Defensive beast, good passer, will bring some hustle and energy for my team.

 

Bastard! He was my perfect sixth man!

 

I got lunch in a few, I'll post mine sometime between 12 and 1 EST.

[Precious Roy 0]

I was going to take Thurmond with my next pick. Cowens was my back up.

 

[AboveAverage484 0]

 

BOB MCADOO

 

18,787 career points (50th all-time)

1974-75 Most Valuable Player

Probably should have been one of the fifty greatest, but he was added on in TNT's "50 plus 10" addendum in 2005-06.

 

The high-scoring, 6-9 center-forward's 14-season tenure in the league began brilliantly. He garnered Rookie of the Year honors, three consecutive scoring championships, and an MVP Award, all in his first four years. Then his star slowly faded before unexpectedly reigniting through the first half of the 1980s. Even after that, at age 35, McAdoo wrote an unlikely ending to his career, playing another half-dozen years in Italy.

 

One of the best-shooting big men of all time, Robert Allen McAdoo Jr. won the first of his three scoring championships in only his second year in the NBA, 1973-74, the same year he led the league with a .547 field-goal percentage. Over 14 seasons McAdoo scored 18,787 points and averaged 22.1 points. A five-time NBA All-Star, he shot .503 from the field and .754 from the line, scoring in double figures in all but one season.

 

Bill Russell said he was one of the best shooters ever period, let alone one of the best shooting big men. I'm debating whether I should start him at small forward (where he began his career playing) or have him come off the bench to spell Russell and Pettit at his more natural position of center or power forward. He did great as a reserve on the early eighties Lakers championship teams. Although he was a tremendous scorer (three straight scoring titles), he wasn't necessarily known for his defense, but he did finish in the top ten in blocks three straight years. I'd probably try to have him paired with Russell on the court, allowing Russell to handle the inside defensive dirty work and McAdoo to create matchup problems with his outside shooting on the other side. This gives me a front line of Russell, Pettit and/or McAdoo, which I feel pretty comfortable with. With three great scorers now on the team and a center who was excellent at initiating the break (Russell's Celtic squads of the sixties regularly broke 100 ppg during their title years), I now have a team who can light the scoreboard up and still hold it's own defensively.

[Broward83 0]

I originally had Cowens picked but went with Thurgood for his shot blocking. Cowens is an excellent choice though. I'm shocked that so many great centres slipped below guys like Robert Horry.

 

Hey! Robert Horry is / was a beast and clutch as all hell.

 

'Sides, I've got my own little thing going right now with my list of potential talent. Horry fit a need and the next pick will fit another.

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

This is funny because going into this set of picks my picks, in order, were Gilmore -> Thurmond -> Cowens -> McAdoo. The exact same order ended up happening.

[MFer 0]

Fuck, I was gonna take Thurmond with one of my next 2 picks...hopefully the other one stays on the board.

[Cuban Linx 0]

 

Joe Dumars

[CanadianChris 0]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU BASTARD

[CanadianChris 0]

All right, if I can't have JD, I'll grab DJ:

 

 

Dennis Johnson, G

 

Career highlights:

 

NBA Finals MVP (1979)

All-NBA First Team (1981)

All-NBA Second Team (1980)

6-Time NBA All-Defensive First Team

3-Time NBA All-Defensive Second Team

5-Time NBA All-Star

[Broward83 0]

I like how everyone's got champagne in their hands yet Larry Legend's got a nice cold can of Miller Lite..

[Guest Vitamin X]

Since there's quite a lack of quality point guards available, I'm going to go ahead and make my frontcourt a force to be reckoned with. One thing to remember about this pick is that this is about the player at the peak of their career.

Er wait, that's just one of his baby mommas..

F/C Shawn "The Reign Man" Kemp

There we go! Even Scottie Pippen's like, "Damn."

 

6-time All-Star (1993-1998)

3x All-NBA

 

[Maztinho 0]

Those are like the worst All Star jersey's ever. Also... you keep drafting the next guy I had in mind. Knock that shit off.

 

When was Shawn ever a Center? I mean I think he'd do the opening tip but I don't think he was ever really paired up against the center. Not being an ass, just honestly wondering. One of my neighbors was from Seattle and moved down during the big Kemp years so we'd always battle it out over who was the better guard-forward combo, Payton-Kemp or Stockton-Malone.

 

 

[Guest Vitamin X]

I somehow knew that you were going to complain that I was drafting the next guy you were thinking of, particularly when I was thinking about how awesome a Dominique/Kemp combo would be. My back court is pretty much ass at the moment, but yeah.

 

Basketball-reference or some other place listed him as a Forward/Center, so I put that, and the dude's big enough (6'10", 257 lbs.) to fill that role.

[Steviekick 0]

I think he kind of became a combo PF/C once he went to Cleveland.

[Maztinho 0]

I somehow knew that you were going to complain that I was drafting the next guy you were thinking of, particularly when I was thinking about how awesome a Dominique/Kemp combo would be. My back court is pretty much ass at the moment, but yeah.

 

Basketball-reference or some other place listed him as a Forward/Center, so I put that, and the dude's big enough (6'10", 257 lbs.) to fill that role.

 

That and I need a PF still. Yeah, I forgot Shawn was 6'10" I was thinking he was 6'8" or summat. And Nique/Kemp is a sick, sick forward duo.

 

I also just block out anything he did after he left Seattle, since he went ass up around that point anyways.

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

I somehow knew that you were going to complain that I was drafting the next guy you were thinking of, particularly when I was thinking about how awesome a Dominique/Kemp combo would be. My back court is pretty much ass at the moment, but yeah.

 

Basketball-reference or some other place listed him as a Forward/Center, so I put that, and the dude's big enough (6'10", 257 lbs.) to fill that role.

 

That and I need a PF still. Yeah, I forgot Shawn was 6'10" I was thinking he was 6'8" or summat. And Nique/Kemp is a sick, sick forward duo.

 

I also just block out anything he did after he left Seattle, since he went ass up around that point anyways.

 

What about the three world championships he helped the Portland Trail Blazers win?

[Precious Roy 0]

Power Forward, Jerry Lucas

 

 

- Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1980)

- One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996)

- NCAA Champion (1960)

- Olympic gold medalist (1960)

- College Player of the Year (1961, 1962)

- NBA champion (1973)

- All-NBA First Team (1965, '66, '68)

- All-NBA Second Team (1964, '67)

- All-Rookie team (1964)

- Seven-time All-Star (1964-69, 1971)

- All-Star MVP (1965)

 

Jerry Lucas wasn't particularly tall or bruising, nor was he a great leaper, but his name can be found at the top of any list of great rebounding forwards in NBA history. The 6-8 Lucas hauled down 12,942 rebounds for an average of 15.6 per game, the fourth-best career mark in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Bob Pettit.

 

Playing for three teams in his 11-year career -- the Cincinnati Royals, the San Francisco Warriors and the New York Knicks -- Lucas tallied 14,053 points (17.0 ppg) and finished with a lofty .499 career field-goal percentage, an impressive statistic considering that many of his points came on rainbow jumpers launched from long distance.

 

Lucas had the rare distinction of winning championships at every level of competition -- in high school, college and the pros. He was even a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic basketball team that won a gold medal in Rome.

 

At Ohio State University, Lucas played center on a legendary Buckeyes team that went 78-6, won three Big Ten titles and captured the NCAA Championship in 1960. He earned College Player of the Year honors in 1961 and 1962.

 

The youngest player selected for the 1960 U.S. Olympic Team, the 20-year-old Lucas was originally slated to come off the bench behind future NBA stars Walt Bellamy and Darrall Imhoff. But Lucas emerged as a starter during the tournament and even tied Oscar Robertson for the team scoring lead with 17.0 ppg.

 

He averaged 21.4 points and 20.0 rebounds in 1964-65, becoming only the third player in NBA history to average "20 and 20" for a season.

 

Although he wasn't as big as some of the game's Goliaths, Lucas was a complete player. A hard-nosed worker, he banged the boards with a big frame that carried 230 to 250 pounds. His offensive repertoire included an accurate one-hand push shot that he launched from 20 to 25 feet and that went in with such regularity that one sportswriter dubbed it "the Lucas Layup." His formidable passing skills rounded out the package.

 

In 1965-66 Lucas again reached the 20-point, 20-rebound mark. He averaged 21.1 rebounds and broke into the top 10 in scoring with 21.5 ppg. He earned another All-Star berth and a second straight selection to the All-NBA First Team. The following year Lucas contributed 17.8 ppg and 19.1 rpg and landed on the All-NBA Second Team.

 

In the 1967-68 season Lucas topped Russell and was second only to Chamberlain in total rebounds. He grabbed 1,560 boards for the season, an average of 19.0 per game. He also ranked eighth in scoring (21.5 ppg) and third in field-goal percentage (.519). He was selected to the All-NBA First Team for the third time in his career.

 

Teammates appreciated his clutch play. Dave DeBusschere, a standout forward for the Knicks, said of Lucas in 1972: "He gets the big rebound, makes the big play on defense, makes the tap shot when you need a basket the most."

 

Lucas retired following the 1973-74 season, calling it quits at age 34 with two years left on his contract. During his basketball career he had always been an enterprising businessman. Upon his retirement, he started venturing out into new business opportunities.

 

Several of his ideas evolved from a lifelong fascination with memory tricks, word games and old-fashioned magic. As a child Lucas had developed alphabetizing systems and memory games as a way to challenge himself. They would later prove useful in his academic studies at Ohio State, from which Lucas graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

 

"John Havlicek of the Celtics was my roommate at Ohio State. I used to drive him crazy," Lucas recalled in The Sporting News. "I'd be finished with my studies in 20 minutes. He'd work all night."

 

His mnemonic skills and affinity for numbers amazed and amused teammates, but Lucas had serious ambitions of becoming a professional entertainer. As "Luke the Magician" he created and hosted a television special called "The Jerry Lucas Super Kids Day Magic Jamboree," which featured educational word games, number puzzles and magic tricks.

 

In the early 1970s he put his memory to the test when he appeared on television and amazed a national audience with his ability to memorize the first 500 pages of the Manhattan phone directory. After retirement, Lucas achieved success when he co-authored The Memory Book, a how-to bestseller that sold more than two million copies. During the late 1980s, he established Lucas Learning Inc., an educational company that published memory and learning materials for children. Lucas has written more than 30 books on the subject.

 

Not only is he one of the greatest rebounding and shooting power forwards of all time, he's a freaking genius!

[Brett Favre 0]

There goes my sixth man.

[Precious Roy 0]

I'm looking over the teams and I think The OOG has my favorite so far

[Maztinho 0]

I'm partial to Vit X's. That's an explosive offense right there.

[Guest]

In his prime, he was one of the best moving big men in the game. Later in his career, his body was destroyed. Still, I need a center, and I can only think of one guy to "fit" my system.

 

 

Bob Lanier.

[MFer 0]

I'm very happy to have this guy on my team.

 

 

Bobby Jones

 

1975 ABA All-Rookie 1st Team

1-time ABA All-Star

1-time All-ABA 2nd Team

2-time ABA All-Defensive 1st Team

1983 NBA Sixth Man of the Year

4-time NBA All-Star

8-time NBA All-Defensive 1st Team

1-time NBA All-Defensive 2nd Team

 

My next pick deviates a little from the defensive plan, but I wanted to get some more scoring in the frontcourt by taking one of the best 2-3 players available among active players.

 

 

Amare Stoudemire

 

2003 NBA Rookie of the Year

3-time NBA All-Star

1-time All-NBA 1st Team

2-time All NBA 2nd team

[Guest]

I have to make sure I get the right coach, and really, there's only one guy to coach a team with two SHOWTIME Lakers on it.

 

 

Pat Riley.

[Precious Roy 0]

Time to draft my point guard. Amazing that this guy is still out there when Chris Paul is already drafted. This guy was doing what Chris Paul did this season for almost a decade.

 

 

Kevin Johnson

 

# Johnson is one of only three players in NBA history (Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson are the others) to average at least 20.0 points and 12.0 assists in a season.

# Johnson is one of only three players in NBA history (Oscar Robertson and Isiah Thomas are the others) to have averaged at least 20.0 points and 10.0 assists in three consecutive seasons.

# Johnson is one of only four players in NBA history to have averaged at least 20.0 points and 10.0 assists per game in three different seasons.

# Johnson is one of four players to have averaged at least 15.0 points and 10.0 assists per game over the course of a season while shooting at least .500 from the field.

# Johnson is one of only two players (the other is Magic Johnson) to have averaged at least 20.0 points and 10.0 assists per game over the course of a season while shooting at least .500 from the field.

# Johnson is the only player in NBA history to have averaged at least 20.0 points, 10.0 assists, a .500 field goal percentage, and 2.0 steals in a season (in '90-'91).

# NBA record holder for minutes in a finals game, playing 62 minutes in 1993 vs. the Chicago Bulls.

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

I was going there next, if he was still around... but I never thought he would be.

[Guest]

Let's say that I hadn't drafted Magic Johnson (which would also mean my pick was lower in the draft)...I would've picked KJ in the third round, probably.