Challenge: Your All-Time Starting Five, for $15

[Andrew]

Saw it come up on the NBA Memes Facebook page, sounded like a fun game to play here. Pick your all-time starting five out of these players, but the catch is, you've only got $15 to spend. Yes, I wouldn't agree with all the dollar amounts for each player either, but that's what they've come up with.



My first choice would be...

C: Hakeem Olajuwon ($1)
F: Tim Duncan ($3)
F: Socttie Pippen ($1)
G: Michael Jordan ($5)
G: Magic Johnson ($5)

[Kevin]

Challenge accepted.

C: Shaq ($2)
F: Duncan ($3)
F: Bird ($4)
G: Bryant ($4)
G: Stockton ($2)

[iamSamke]

PG: Stockton ($2)
SG: Jordan ($5)
SF Pippen ($1)
PF Duncan ($3)
C Chamberlain ($3)

+ buy something for 1$ left

[mp3]

I will just take 3 Michael Jordan's...

Game over...

[Kevin]

I'd take 2 Kobes against your 3 jordans and you'll still lose.

[buzzy]

Stockton
Wade
James
Malone
Shaq

[iamSamke]

Well I'll take one Brian Scalabrine. You're doomed

[Kenny]

G: Walt Frazier (1)
G: Michael Jordan (5)
F: LeBron James (5)
F: Tim Duncan (3)
C: Hakeem Olajuwon (1)

[mp3]

I'd take 2 Kobes against your 3 jordans and you'll still lose.

The classic Kobe/Jordan debate...

[NovU]

PG: OSCAR robertson (4 dollar)
SG: DWYANE wade (1 dollar)
SF: LEBRON james (5 dollar)
PF: DIRK nowitzki (2 dollar)
C: WILT chamberlain (3 dollar)

[shadowgrin]

Seen this last year and even then and now I still think whoever made it is stupid for making Tim Duncan and Wilt Chamberlain not worth 5, and Kobe 10. He did right making Shaq worth more than Olajuwon though.

[airBerlin]

Stockton 2
Jordan 5
Bird 4
Duncan 3
Hakeem 1

[Andrew]

I'm wondering if some of the dollar amounts were assigned to facilitate certain combinations. For example, I'd place Duncan at $5 over Malone and Barkley. Even if you still want to consider Malone the top power forward of all-time, Duncan surely has to be number two. Putting him at the $3 mark allows him to be paired up with two $5 players, though.

[buzzy]

I don't think that too much thought went into it, honestly.

[NovU]

It'd be fun to see whose team would come out on top in 2k.

[big-shot-ROB]

PG- Oscar Robertson
SG- Jerry West
SF- Larry Bird
PF- Tim Duncan
C- Hakeem Olajuwon

[ThePointForward]

PG Magic $5
SG Wade $1
SF LeBron $5
PF Dirk $2
C Shaq $2

Assuming all of them are during their prime of course.

[shadowgrin]

Stockton 2
West 3
Bird 4
Duncan 3
Wilt 3

[debiler]

Even the team from the bargain bin (Hakeem, Garnett, Pippen, Wade and Stockton) would be incredibly OP.

[mariulis1]

C: Hakeem Olajuwon ($1)
F: Karl Malone ($5)
F: Socttie Pippen ($1)
G: Michael Jordan ($5)
G: John Stockton ($2)

[Andrew]

Even the team from the bargain bin (Hakeem, Garnett, Pippen, Wade and Stockton) would be incredibly OP.

Yeah, it's hard to go wrong here.

[Sauru]

pg - Magic
sg - Jordan 5
sf - Pippen 1
pf - Duncan
c - Olajuwon

pretty sure this is the best team you can make. pippen is an absolute steal at 1 dollar

[Andrew]

Seems we're on the same page there. So...good choices!

I definitely get the impression that some of the prices have been deliberately set to facilitate a wide variety of lineups. Again, Barkley's an all-time great, and Malone's still in the discussion as far as the best power forward of all-time is concerned, but few would rank them both ahead of Duncan at this juncture.

[Sauru]

3 of the 5 categories i would rank differently for sure with the other 2 i could settle for. i would also take a healthy mcgrady over 3 of the shooting guards but that might be some personal preference

[NovU]

pretty sure this is the best team you can make.

hmph, I disagree.

You guys base that MJ is the must-have player. But I will argue Wilt is better and dominates his position even more. And consider his $3 price tag, I will boldly go with Wilt over Jordan. There's a significant gap between Olajuwon and Wilt btw, and cost difference is only $2.

Pippen is a great deal at $1. But just for $2 more, you get Durant. Also Wade at $1 is a steal too and he probably is closer to #2 or 3 in SG list.