All-Time Teams for the All-Time Greats

hey man tony massenburg is not an all time great. besides aint no one beating the robert parish team. nothing but hall of famers and reggie lewis

I think Shaq's team could keep up with them.

Shaq
Malone
James
Bryant
Nash

Mourning
Garnett
Hill
Wade
Payton

J. O'Neal
Stoudemire
Pierce
Allen
Penny

You've still got Glen Rice, Horry, Van Exel, Jones, Richmond, White Chocolate, Jamison, Big Z etc.

Corie Blount

PG: Magic Johnson
SG: Michael Jordan
SF: Kobe Bryant
PF: Dennis Rodman
C: Shaq O'Neal

Bench:
Toni Kukoc
Scottie Pippen
Robert Horry
Chris Mullin
Tyson Chandler
Jason Kidd
Vlade Divac

DAMN.

I think we need a thread defining "all time greats" next time. Some of these guys..

hey man tony massenburg is not an all time great. besides aint no one beating the robert parish team. nothing but hall of famers and reggie lewis

I think Shaq's team could keep up with them.

Shaq
Malone
James
Bryant
Nash

Mourning
Garnett
Hill
Wade
Payton

J. O'Neal
Stoudemire
Pierce
Allen
Penny

You've still got Glen Rice, Horry, Van Exel, Jones, Richmond, White Chocolate, Jamison, Big Z etc.

honestly out of the teams listed the shaq team was the only one i think could beat them in 7. shaq got a team full of HOFers also

I think we need a thread defining "all time greats" next time. Some of these guys..

personally i think that the player used to make the list needs to be in the HOF

I'm guessing most people do have a good idea of the criteria, but we may be approaching a few too many joke entries in short order.

Moses Malone

C: Moses Malone
F: Charles Barkley
F: Dominique Wilkins
G: Julius Erving
G: Calvin Murphy

Bench:

David Robinson
Dennis Rodman
Bernard King
Sidney Moncrief
Maurice Cheeks
Jeff Malone
Kevin Willis

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

C: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
F: Bob Dandridge
F: Adrian Dantley
G: Oscar Robertson
G: Magic Johnson

Bench:
Gail Goodrich
Jon McGlocklin
James Worthy
Byron Scott
Michael Cooper
Bob McAdoo
A.C. Green

Bill Russell

C: Bill Russell
F: Tom Sanders
F: Tom Heinsohn
G: Sam Jones
G: Bob Cousy

Bench
John Havlicek
Frank Ramsey
Bill Sharman
K.C. Jones
Bailey Howell
Don Nelson
Clyde Lovelette

Larry Bird

C: Robert Parish
F: Kevin McHale
F: Larry Bird
G: Danny Ainge
G: Dennis Johnson

Bench
Cedric Maxwell
Reggie Lewis
Bill Walton
Dave Cowens
Tiny Archibald
Pete Maravich
Artis Gilmore

yup i still say robert parish has the best team. i win

Rodman might have a shot.

the worm

C: Shaq
F: Moses Malone
F: Dirk Nowitzki
G: Jordan
G: Kobe

Bench
Adrien Dantley
David Robinson
Pippen
Steve Nash
Isiah Thomas
RODMAN
Dumars

Robert Parish doesn't even make the list, lol. Take that, sauru.

Paul Pierce

C: Shaquille O'Neal
F: Kevin Garnett
F: Paul Pierce
G: Ray Allen
G: Chris Paul

Bench:
Blake Griffin
John Wall
Rajon Rondo
Jamal Crawford
Brook Lopez
Antoine Walker
DeAndre Jordan

Kevin Garnett

C: Shaquille O'Neal
F: Kevin Garnett
F: Paul Pierce
G: Ray Allen
G: Rajon Rondo

Bench:

Rasheed Wallace
Latrell Sprewell
Stephon Marbury
Jermaine O'Neal
Deron Williams
Joe Johnson
Brook Lopez

Hakeem Olajuwon

C: Hakeem Olajuwon
F: Charles Barkley
F: Scottie Pippen
G: Clyde Drexler
G: Steve Francis

Bench:
Vince Carter
Robert Horry
Kenny Smith
Sam Cassell
Vernon Maxwell
Otis Thorpe
Cuttino Mobley

Pretty amazing how Hakeem won two despite having nobody great around him most of the time....

It is interesting to see who did the most with the least amount of star talent around them, and vice versa.

It is interesting to see who did the most with the least amount of star talent around them, and vice versa.

For one season at least....
Winning title with the least amount of talent around them for me would either be Dirk or Hakeem, not too sure about pre 80s but those championship teams were all stacked anyways
No title I'll have to go with Allen Iverson...he single handedly took that talentless Sixers squad to the finals and handed the unstoppable Lakers their lone loss in the 01 playoffs.

Did the least with the most talent around them? 07 Dirk, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, 11 Lebron. Relative of course, since aside from Dirk these guys all made it to the finals where they then "flopped" despite having stacked rosters.

Allen Iverson ( I would be placing him at PG )

C: Marcus Camby (DPOY in 06-07)
F: Chris Webber
F: Carmelo Anthony
G: Jerry Stackhouse
G: Allen Iverson

Bench:
Dikembe Mutombo
Kenyon Martin
Andrew Igoudala
Derrick Coleman
Kyle Korver
Mike Conley
Rasheed Wallace

It is interesting to see who did the most with the least amount of star talent around them, and vice versa.

For one season at least....
Winning title with the least amount of talent around them for me would either be Dirk or Hakeem, not too sure about pre 80s but those championship teams were all stacked anyways
No title I'll have to go with Allen Iverson...he single handedly took that talentless Sixers squad to the finals and handed the unstoppable Lakers their lone loss in the 01 playoffs.

Did the least with the most talent around them? 07 Dirk, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, 11 Lebron. Relative of course, since aside from Dirk these guys all made it to the finals where they then "flopped" despite having stacked rosters.

time were different back then. players didnt all group up to form these super teams so you didnt need a ton around you. look at the first bulls 3 peat. they had jordan and pippen for sure and grant was a pretty good role player but that team was mostly trash. they were made better from being able to play with jordan and pippen. man i miss those days, the nba now is fucking stupid as hell.

I'd give some more credit to the likes of Bill Cartwright (an All-Star before joining the Bulls), B.J. Armstrong and John Paxson, and a couple of other players had reasonably solid and lengthy careers as dependable role players, but yeah, they weren't exactly stacked. Same goes for the second three-peat, with a core rotation that included Bill Wennington and Jud Buechler; dependable players when not asked to do anything more than they were capable of, but far from stars.

time were different back then. players didnt all group up to form these super teams so you didnt need a ton around you. look at the first bulls 3 peat.

yeah, just look at the 1980's Celtics, Lakers and Sixers

lol

Reggie Miller could have been a no stranger in all time great debates if he had won couple rings. (Similarly would we still hold Glyde the Drexler in such high regard if he didnt have luck to play alongside Olajuwon?)

Reggie is merely remembered as a Knicks killer. What if the Pacers were able to pair him up with somebody better than Rik Smits or if he went somewhere else with better talents?

time were different back then. players didnt all group up to form these super teams so you didnt need a ton around you. look at the first bulls 3 peat. they had jordan and pippen for sure and grant was a pretty good role player but that team was mostly trash. they were made better from being able to play with jordan and pippen. man i miss those days, the nba now is fucking stupid as hell.

Agreed, I miss the 90s and early 00s as well. Good competitive basketball, no softies teaming up and holding hands before games with the opponents. I see those things nowadays and it makes me sick

time were different back then. players didnt all group up to form these super teams so you didnt need a ton around you. look at the first bulls 3 peat.

yeah, just look at the 1980's Celtics, Lakers and Sixers

lol

those teams were not put together is nearly the same manner. now if bird and magic teamed up instead of playing each other you might have a point. imagine if barkley said fuck it i can beat jordan so i will play on the bulls.

Robert Horry

C: Shaq
F: Duncan
F: Drexler
G: Kobe
G: Steve Nash

Bench:
Olajuwon
Kidd
Ginobili
Nick Van Exel
Sam Cassell
Kevin Johnson
Robert Horry


Honorable Mentions: Mitch Richmond, Glen Rice, Pete Chilcutt, Pete Chilcutt, formx

How you dare...

how does van exel make the list over glen rice?