[d_jizzle]

1985 team... would be an awesome run and gun team, hence Smith at PF.

PG: Chris Paul
SG: JR Smith
SF: Luol Deng
PF: Josh Smith
C: Dwight Howard

Subs: Al Jefferson, LaMarcus Aldridge, Andrea Bargnani, Joakim Noah, Marcus Williams, Monta Ellis, Darko Milicic , Trevor Ariza

1984 team
PG: Deron Williams
SG: Lebron James
SF: Carmelo Anthony
PF: Chris Bosh
C: Andrew Bogut

Subs: Raymond Felton, Sean May, Charlie Villanueva, Brandon Roy, Adam Morrison, Andre Iguodala

1983 team

PG: TJ Ford
SG: Ben Gordon
SF: Kevin Martin
PF: David Lee
C: Nenad Krstic

Bench: Josh Childress, Jarrett Jack, Randy Foye, Sheldon Williams, Delonte West, Devin Harris

1982 team
PG: Gilbert Arenas
SG: Dwyane Wade
SF: Gerald Wallace
PF: Amare Stoudemire
C: Emeka Okafor

Subs: Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, Tony Parker, Anderson Varaejao, Boris Diaw, Nene, Leandro Barbosa

1981 team
PG: Kirk Hinrich
SG: Joe Johnson
SF: Andrei Kirilenko
PF: Zach Randolph
C: Carlos Boozer

Subs: Jason Kapono, Jason Richardson , Drew Gooden, Samuel Dalembert

1980 team
PG: ?
SG: Josh Howard
SF: Caron Butler
PF: Pau Gasol
C: Yao Ming

Subs: Udonis Haslem, Tayshaun Prince, Jamal Crawford, Mike Miller, Al Harrington, Q. Richardson, Richard Jefferson


1979 team
PG:Baron Davis
SG: Tracy McGrady
SF: Ron Artest
PF: Elton Brand
C: Mehmet Okur

Subs: Lamar Odom, Michael Redd, Andres Nocioni, Rashard Lewis, Corey Maggette

1978 team
PG: Mike Bibby
SG: Kobe Bryant
SF: Shawn Marion
PF: Dirk Nowitzki
C: Jermaine O'Neal

Bench: Rip Hamilton, Shane Battier

1977 team
PG: Stephon Marbury
SG: Vince Carter
SF: Paul Pierce
PF: Kenyon Martin
C: Jeff Foster

Subs: Jason Terry, Manu Ginobili, Tim Thomas

1976 team
PG: Chauncey Billups
SG: Bonzi Wells
SF: Antawn Jamieson
PF: Kevin Garnett
C: Tim Duncan

Subs: Andre Miller, Raja Bell, Rafer Alston, Shareef Abdur-Rahim

[CrookedJ]

Cool thread . . .I gotta go with my birth year -
1978
Bibby, Kobe, Marion,Dirk, JO.

Thats a solid team.

[c_dog]

Out of those teams, 76 obviously wins by default. I mean they only have two of the top 5 players in the league. Duncan and KG are just too good. Add Chauncey Billups who happens to be a member of adidas' 5ive also... a solid floor general and defender and a deadly shooter... Raja Bell would be the better option at this point at sg considering bonzi's been injured. Add Jamison in the mix and that's one scary lineup.

I also like the 82 team a lot. Arenas is underrated but is a legit superstar along with Dwyane Wade. STAT and Okafor makes a nice balanced tandem up front with Okafor anchoring the defense and STAT scoring like a maniac on offense. Gerald Wallace fills in nicely at the 3 spot.

The star laden 79 team looks pretty good too. don't count them out. that team has a lot of star players and a lot of depth. i actually like the idea of starting lewis or redd, moving artest to the 4 and brand to the 5.

[ballocks]

i truly don't know who i'd take. you could probably make a strong case for almost all of them ('83 might be the exception). the stars in the league today are well-distributed in terms of age. it's almost perfect distribution, in fact.

'84 is solid, but that's more due to the big three (lbj, bosh, melo). the rest are either in early development or banging on the door, but not quite inside yet.

'82 jumps out at me (dwyane, zero, amare, wallace) but the bench isn't quite up to snuff in terms of star power, save for parker (is he really an '82 kid? man, the guy seems really mature for his age).

'78 and '79 are hard to pick between, imo, but more because they're different than they are the same: '78 has more stars (kobe, dirk, jermaine) but '79 has a better 'bench' (rashard, redd, odom). depends on how you'd prefer to build your team, i guess- with depth or power.

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but seriously, i didn't even know how young/old some of these players were. iverson's not even on the list? i guess it's his year off before georgetown that caused it ('it' being my surprise). and memo's only '79? man seems like he's been 40 years old for his entire life.

peace

[carlos710]

76 wins.

[cima]

'78, '84, and '76 are the best.

[HB]

78'

[xray]

I felt certain I could find a team for me ('67), but all I can find is a bunch of spares.

Deion Sanders, Vin Diesel, Criss Angel, and Pamala Anderson - imagine them in a room together.

[More]

For 1980, Steve Blake?

[JuX]

Joe Johnson in 1980, right?

[kamego]

My gut feeling is 78 is the best team.