Sports Buffs: Your All-Time Teams for various sports.

[Andarvi]

As usual, convos with my buddies turn into topics on BG. We were inspired by the recent ESPN article posted where you select the best celtics and lakers by position of all time and went on for over an hour about basketball, baseball, and some football.

So, my all-time NBA team.

PG: Magic. Little more competition than MJ, but thats not saying much since Jordan has no competition. Oscar Robertson if Magic didn't exist. If lower back therapy breakthroughs occur in the next couple years and prevent Nash from snapping in half, hes in the conversation. Stockton will get some looks.

SG: Michael. Needs no explanation. People will continue to compare Kobe as he continues to play well. Hes in his prime and who knows what his resume will look like when its all over. His team right now has several years of competition left in it, amazing structuring by management, the only blip not finding a way to remedy the egos of a young Kobe and the Big Cactus who would have got a couple more together at least (though those Spurs teams make it not exactly guaranteed) and the ridiculous trading kobe talk. However, Kobe can't do anything to surpass Jordan as the best ever in peoples eyes. Jordan's echelon is occupied only by Gretzky in terms of unanimous selection and the model in which all else is compared. When a guy with his stat sheet, records, and performances is most well known for the intangibles that made it all possible, that speaks volumes.

SF: Bird: Same as Magic competition wise. I guess technically Lebron is here, regardless, he has a long way to go to be even in the conversation. Crazy hes been in the league 7 years. Funny though, they say Bird did the most with the least, the same defense often used to defend Bron. Baylor and Dr. J probably interchangeably in 2nd, baylor may make #1 spot on some peoples lists.

PF:Timmy: Gotta be Duncan, and hes not even done. I used to say Malone then charles, and if this list was based on entertainment value Timmy would compete if not win last place, but the crown is his now.

C: This was the biggest debate, lot of strong contenders. Russell is probably 1, the championships and utter dominance are obvious. No one had an answer for him, and he was only 6'9...Kareem has to be a close second, his competition was stronger and he dominated in his own regard. Hakeem rounds out the top 3 for me, game was close to Kareem but with better hands. This is also where my homer pick comes in with the one and only Shaqzilla. Give him a 10 foot jumpshot and he's my number one. He banged with the best for 15ish years, at his prime was the closest thing to Russell, ever, at the center position in terms of teams just not having an answer for him (pre-hack a shaq). The fact if he was built like Russell, Kareem, or Hakeem he wouldn't have been nearly as good and that he is a fucking terrible free throw shooter allowing teams to finally realize the hack-a-shaq technique make it hard for me to make a legit argument for him. However, in his prime, he as the closest thing to Russell in terms of just being on another physical level that separated him and compensated for his lack of high skill level.

Ill work on my baseball one and a couple football positions, minus boring O-line stuff.

So, what do your lists look like? Feel free to include any sport, im just curious. I think basketball is the easiest one.

[Nekio]

Fuck pro basketball.

*EDIT* To clarify, basketball sucks. "Various sports" should at least include something worthwhile like football or hockey.

[Plow]

Basketball eh?

Oscar
MJ
Bird
Barkley
Wilt

With a bench of

Magic/Isaiah
Gervin/Reggie Miller
Dominique Wilkins (young and healthy, obv)/Dr. J/James Worthy
Malone/Elvin Hayes
Shaq/Kareem

[Stumblingdrunk]

Basketball eh?
Reggie Miller
Dominique Wilkins

these are names i did not expect at all but am happy to see

[Null]

Greatest Football Team

Since there are more players I will spoil the list.

Spoiler: show

Center - Brett Favre
Right Guard - Brett Favre
Left Guard - Brett Favre
Left Tackle - Brett Favre
Right Tackle - Brett Favre
Quaterback - Brett Favre
Half Back - Brett Favre
Full Back - Brett Favre
Tight End - Brett Favre
Wide Receiver - Brett Favre
Wide Receiver - Brett Favre

Coached by Brett Favre

and a Brett Favre cheerleading squad

[Ferien]

Anxiously awaiting the baseball one...the list for potential OF alone is ridiculously deep.

[Bregor]

LW: Luc Robitaille
C: Wayne Gretzky
RW: Gordie Howe
D: Bobby Orr
D: Paul Coffey

LW: Brendan Shanahan
C: Mario Lemieux
RW: Maurice Richard
D: Ray Bourque
D: Dennis Potvin

LW: Bobby Hull
C: Marcel Dionne
RW: Mike Bossy
D: Nick Lidstrom
D: Brian Leetch

LW: Mark Messier (okay he's not a LW but you gotta get him in)
C: Steve Yzerman
RW: Jaromir Jagr

G: Jacques Plante
G: Dominik Hasek
G: Ken Dryden

[Orph]

Baseball:

C: Johnny Bench
1st: Lou Gehrig
2nd: Joe Morgan
3rd: Mike Schmidt
SS: Cal Ripken Jr.
LF: Ted Williams
CF: Willie Mays
RF: Babe Ruth
SP: Nolan Ryan
CP: Mariano Rivera

I expect 1st base to change in a couple of years.

[Conrad]

Starting rotation:

Cy Young
Steve Carlton
Randy Johnson
Nolan Ryan
Roy Halladay

[Mizango]

Spoiler: show

Kyle Orton
JP Losman
Ricky Williams
Brooks Bollinger
Dan Orlovsky
Mark Kotsay (Im a huge CSF fan)
Jose Oquendo
Joey Elliott
Ray Lankford
Ricky Williams
Reggie Miller
Rik Smits
God Shamgod
Khalid Reeves
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala
Danny Tartabull
Albert Belle (JOOOOOEY JOOOOOEY JOOOOOEY)
Tom and Curtis Goodwin

These players by all rights should be first ballot hall of famers.

[Hex]

There is no way you can pick baseball's OF without some sort of epic injustice in someone's eyes. I was going to make my own list but I can't decide between OF.

I want to say, I'm sad nobody has mentioned Bob Gibson for pitching. You put Mariano there because he shows up in the playoffs and is lights out no matter how horrible his regular season is. Gibson was lights out in both.

[Xno Kappa]

Starting rotation:

Cy Young
Sandy Koufax
Randy Johnson
Nolan Ryan
Roy Halladay

ftfy.

[Mizango]

As far and baseball goes I'd just pick 9 Milton Bradleys and win by intimidation and random acts of nigganess.

[Xno Kappa]

lol

[Headspace]

QB: Major Applewhite
QB2: Vince Young
RB: Ricky Williams
RB2: Cedric Benson
WR: Roy Williams
WR2: Limas Sweed

[Biddinger]

As far and baseball goes I'd just pick 9 Milton Bradleys and win by intimidation and random acts of nigganess.

http://thelasthonestman.files.wordpr...ley_milton.jpg

[Diamicles]

My All-Time NFL Team.

QB: Manning
RB1: Payton
RB2: Sanders
FB: Csonka
WR1: Rice
WR2: Monk
WR3: Largent
TE1: Winslow, Sr
TE2: Gonzales
LT: Munoz
LG: Bruce Matthews
C: Mike Webster
RG: Upshaw
RT: Dierdorf

DE: Dent
DE: Deacon Jones
DE: Youngblood
DT: Merlin Olsen
DT: John Randle
DT: Joe Green
ILB: Mike Singletary
ILB: Ray Lewis
OLB: Jack Ham
OLB: Derrick Thomas
CB: Night Train Lane
CB: Rod Woodson
CB: Darrell Green
S: Ed Reed
S: Ronnie Lott

[Sepukku]

Hockey:

Forwards (not going by L/C/R cause its not even, just 12 good forwards):
Wayne Gretzky
Mario Lemieux
Gordie Howe
Steve Yzerman
Mark Messier
Ron Francis
Maurice Richard
Brian Trottier
Sidney Crosby
*sigh* Alexander Ovechkin
Pavel Bure
Sergi Federov or Igor Larianov

Defensemen:
Chris Pronger
Chris Pronger
Chris Pronger
Mike Green
Mike Green
Mike Green

Goalie:
Patrick Roy
Dominik Hasek

[Sepukku]

I'm not an expert on baseball, but I know it enough that when I watch film of Ken Griffey Jr., I can see that he has to be considered one of the best of all time.

My best ATTEMPT at baseball would be:

Willie Mays
Ken Griffey Jr.
Babe Ruth
Cal Ripken Jr.
(cannot pick catcher)
(cannot pick 2B)
(cannot pick 1B)
Alex Rodriquez?
Nolan Ryan

[Tyche]

Miz really did just put a Texas player in his list.