by Micah Hart
Here’s a popular conversation around this time of year:
Sports Fan A: Oh man, imagine how good School A would be if Player X had just stayed one more year. They might have won the NCAA Tournament!
Sports Fan B: Tell me about it. And look how good School B could have been this year. Player Y and Player Z would both be seniors!
If you watched the two amazing basketball documentaries last weekend — ESPN’s “Fab Five” and HBO’s “Runnin’ Rebels” — you know what I’m talking about.
Nowadays, Chris Webber would never have called his infamous timeout in the NCAA title game because he’d almost certainly have left after his freshman year — as would have Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard. Larry Johnson, Greg Anthony and Stacey Augmon — all of whom were first-round picks in 1991 — returned to UNLV after winning the 1990 national championship. The only guys who have done that recently were Florida’s ’04s of Corey Brewer, Al Horford, Joakim Noah and Taurean Green — and even then, everyone knew they were the exception.
While we’ll never know if Syracuse could have repeated as national champs in 2004 had Carmelo Anthony stayed, or what kind of ridiculous stats Kevin Durant might have put up had he stayed four years at Texas, we do know they became stars in the NBA.
Which leads us to a new series we will be running on All Ball over the course of the next few weeks:
Bragging Rights: The Ultimate Battle for School Pride
The premise is simple:
We want to know which school has the best NBA players. Over the next few weeks, we will pit every school with at least five players currently on active NBA rosters against each other in a hypothetical, March Madness-style, single-elimination bracket.
We’ve seeded the teams (see below), and we’ll roll out a few games each week. You vote for the winners.
We’ll start this afternoon with Stanford vs. LSU.
Why spend your time wondering how good your favorite college team could have been when your favorite players are still in action today? Once a Dukie, always a Dukie, right?
The ground rules:
- Schools with at least five players currently on NBA rosters are eligible. If your alma mater doesn’t have enough to put a full team on the floor, better hope its recruiting gets better.
- For our purposes, imagine these games are being played today. We’re not interested in how good these players were as collegians, or at their peak in the NBA, but how they’re doing RIGHT NOW. Vince Carter may have been Second Team All-NBA in 2001, but that has no bearing on how he’ll fare this March, in Bragging Rights.
- As long as it’s not a season-ending injury, you’re eligible. For this exercise, we’ll assume normal health for all players who have played the bulk of this season but who may be sidelined now. However, any players with season-long injuries (like Greg Oden) are out.
- Each school gets one team. Some schools — like UCLA, which has a league-leading 14 players in the NBA — may have enough players to field two teams. Some schools have only five alums in the NBA. To even the playing field, each team will play only its best five players.
- Positions don’t matter. For each school’s starting lineup, we selected the five best NBA players currently playing. Think of the Bragging Rights games like the world’s greatest pickup games: the best five on each side play, regardless of position.
Nineteen universities have five or more players in the NBA. We’ve seeded them in four regions. There are three play-in games between the No. 4 and 5 seeds (Memphis-Marquette, LSU-Stanford and Washington-Ohio State).
Winners will be determined by your votes, so if you want to support your school, spread the word to your fellow fans.
Here are the teams and their seedings:
| East Region | South Region | West Region | Midwest Region |
| 1. Wake Forest |
1. Duke | 1. Texas | 1. UConn |
| 2. North Carolina | 2. Florida | 2. UCLA | 2. Arizona |
| 3. Syracuse | 3. Georgia Tech | 3. Kansas | 3. Kentucky |
| 4. Memphis | 4. LSU | 4. Washington | 4. USC |
| 5. Marquette | 5. Stanford | 5. Ohio State |
Who will win? Hang out with us through the rest of March Madness to find out.
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UCONN! Ben Gordon, Rip Hamilton, Ray Allen, Rudy Gay, Emeka Okafor.. Can you say Unstoppable?
Or Caron Butler instead of Emeka…
Well caron has season ending injury so he’s out
sounds like a pretty mediocre team to me
superb line up..
well i’m quite greenhorn to the alumni…
i always thought North Carolina produced high flyers like MJ and Carter… pardon my thin knowledge..
Rudy Gay doesnt count but nice line up
I’m thinking Duke or Marquette (yes that’s only because I know my boy D-wade is from there!). this is interesting, I like it
Kentucky. Straight up. DeMarcus, Wall and Bledsoe this year alone. Don’t forget Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans, and the others. I’d type’em out, but I’m late for work!
dereck rose didnt go there neither did tyreke
too bad derrick rose went to memphis
Tyreke and Derrick both went to memphis not kentucky!!!
lol might want to get your facts straight before posting on here. While we’re talking about Kentucky let’s not forget the great Rajon Rondo.
tht right man even if he made huge impact in his collage day now his top 5 pg in the nba n has a ring
derrick rose did not come from kentucky it was memphis
derrik rose and tyreke evan went to memphis nt kentucky
derick rose and tyreke evans didnt play for kentucky they played for memphis
lol i love how you got a hundred replies all correcting your mistake. ill give it a shot too, you guys are forgetting about kobe bryant who went to kentucky as well
WILDCATS pat riley dan isser rajon rondo joe crawford john wall demarcus ocusins eric bledose
North Carolina – (Michael Jordan “Greatest Ever”, Vince Carter, Antwan Jamison, Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace)
Duke- All Duke players end up hurt or average/so-so players in the NBA.
Also from North Carolina – (Sam Perkins “Younger Version”, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Ty Lawson, Raymond Felton & Tyler Hansbrough “whose making a name for himself”)
the debate is for active player so mj don’t make this team but unc has a good chance but teams like uconn ucla and kentuky has great chance of win this type of tournament because the players they had r playing great in the nba
I don’t care how old MJ is….I would still let him ball on my team
Actually Duke has pretty solid players. Theyre way better than average. Grant Hill back in the day was pretty amazing. Carlos Boozer is a 20 10 guy, low post threat for the number one in the East, Bulls. Elton Brand used to be the “Blake Griffin” on the clippers back then. Luol Deng is pretty solid, His numbers are all star like. Josh McRoberts is balling in the highlight reel, everynight. Can’t argue about the injurys though
I think from Uconn you have alot of ball hogs/shooters,but no “team” florida has to be up there- Udonis Haslem,Al Horford,David Lee,Mike Miller,Joakim Noah,Jason Williams,pretty solid there!-swarming defense!!
Forgot Corey Brewer,and Matt bonner
Udonis haslem went to FSU not florida
udonis haslem went to university of florida dude
LSU SHAQ,, anthony randolph, brandon bass, tyrus thomas, glen baby davis
bob petit, pistol pete
wowowowow
all the big men from LSU… hahaha
UNC – clearly if the best player of all time was a product of your school, then that school is number one
Very Wise my good man!!!
@Peter,
Don’t forget Rondo!
cg
active guys. sctive players.
Where are the team rosters? What players are on each team?
Active is right lol,and one player dosen’t make a “team”
OUT of LSU vs STANFORD
STANFORD has BROOKE LOPEZ, ROBIN LOPEZ, JOSH CHILDRESS, LANDRY FEILDS, JASON and JARRON COLLINS…. some real good size but no true point guard in the nba…
LSU has SHAQUILLE ONEAL, BRANDON BASS, GLEN DAVIS, ANTHONY RANDOLPH, MARCUS THORTON and TYRUS THOMAS…. Thay also have no true point guard but do have size to match stanford and more athletism so i say LSU WINS!
Schools with at least five players currently on NBA rosters are eligible. Come on guys, let’s read the rules first before we post.
Russell Westbrook, Arron Afflalo, Trevor Ariza, Baron Davis, Kevin Love — go Bruins!
good squad
Go Bruins!
this team might win.. all of the players are good
Trevor ariza might not be able to keep up with other PFs
santa clara steve nash and kurt rambis baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that team would win automatically….Nash=best player ever
I’d have to pick UCLA or UCONN for best current players in NBA as a fantasy squad.
I would pick UCLA:
PG: Russel Westbrook/ Jrue Holiday/ Baron Davis/ Darren Collison/ Jordan Farmer/ Earl Watson
SG: Arron Afflalo/ Jason Kapano
SF: Luc Richard Mbah a Moute/ Matt Barnes/ Trevor Ariza
PF: Kevin Love
C: Ryan Hollins, Dan Gadzuric
UCLA looks pretty good to me.
UCONN:
- Ben Gordon
- Ray Allen
- Richard Hamilton
- Caron Butler
- Emeka Okafor
UCLA:
- Baron Davis,
- Russell Westbrook
- Jrue Holiday
- Trevor Ariza
- Kevin Love,
Kentucky:
- Rajon Rondo,
- John Wall,
- Tayshaun Prince
- Chuck Hayes
- DeMarcus Cousins
North Carolina:
- Ty Lawson
- Raymond Felton
- Vince Carter
- Tyler Hansbrough
- Antawn Jamison
Syracuse:
- Jonny Flynn
- Wesley Johnson
- Carmelo Anthony
- Hakim Warrick
- Donte Greene
Memphis:
- Derrick Rose
- Chris Douglas-Roberts
- Rodney Carney
- Shawne Williams
- Joey Dorsey
Duke:
- Corey Maggette
- Luol Deng,
- Grant Hill
- Elton Brand
- Carlos Boozer
Florida:
- Mike Miller
- Udonis Haslem
- Al Horford
- David Lee
- Joakim Noah
Texas:
- D.J. Augustin
- T.J. Ford
- Daniel Gibson
- Kevin Durant
- LaMarcus Aldridge
LSU:
- Marcus Thornton
- Tyrus Thomas
- Brandon Bass
- Glen Davis
- Shaquille O’Neal
Stanford:
- Landry Fields
- Josh Childress
- Robin Lopez
- Brook Lopez
- Jason Collins
Georgia Tech:
- Will Bynum
- Jarret Jack
- Anthony Morrow
- Thaddeus Young
- Chris Bosh
Kansas:
- Mario Chalmers
- Kirk Hinrich
- Paul Pierce
- Darrell Arthur
- Drew Gooden
Wake Forest:
- Chris Paul
- Josh Howard
- Al Farouq-Aminu
- Darius Songaila
- Tim Duncan
Arizona:
- Mike Bibby
- Jason Terry
- Gilbert Arenas
- Andre Iguodala
- Richard Jefferson
USC:
- Nick Young
- O.J. Mayo
- DeMar DeRozan
- Ty Gibson
- Brian Scalabrine
Marquette, Washington & Ohio State have no chance at all!
Tyreke Evans clearly should be on the Memphis team! Rodney Carney? move douglas roberts to the three and put in tyreke!
SCALABRINE
I’d agree with the kansas squad.. NICE!
nice lineups! but looking at the bigger picture, wake forest wins with paul and duncan.
UCLA, UCONN and Florida makes my top 3….
Pretty nice post, but you should put Tyreke Evans in the Memphis squad
marquette has dwayne wade.. you can’t count them out
WASHINGTON HUSKIES
SPENCER HAWES
JON BROCKMAN
QUINCY PONDEXTER
BRANDON ROY
NATE ROBINSON
A ‘TRUE’ starting 5… plus da most “UNDERRATED”
Sorry this team is a total joke. None of these player start and they get like 10 minutes a game. How are they going to beat anyone.
Lets go UCLA (:
Texas ain’t too shabby either. Forgot about Aldridge.
Dont forget about kevin durant and aldrige from TEXAS
Texas is clearly gonna dominate! We got the one and only Kevin Durant! Plus rising stars Lamarcus Aldridge and D.J. Augustin. Plus always 3 point threat of Daniel Gibson. Oh, and T.J. Ford.
man, high school ballers would kill these teams hahaha
PG Kobe
SG McGrady
SF Lebron
PF Garnett
C Howard
GAAAAME OVER!!!
I agree to the highschool concept too lol
Put LeBron at the point, move T-Mac to SF, and put Kobe in his own position.
NOW it’s game over-who’s stopping a 6’8 260lb point guard?
the celtics did a pretty good job stopping him, three times already this year
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW
this High school line up will surely beat ANY team in the world.
Any team, anytime.
put the best 5 from NCAA, say Durant, Wade, Rose, Altridge & Anthony>>> no fight at all.
Um I’d say just about everyone in the nba has been stopping him lately..
high school all the way!!!
@thunderup he say who gonna stop him as a point guard azz… lebron aint play as no pg for heats!! get educated bout ball den run ur mouth!!
Can’t agree more, man. High school ballers killed all those NCAA teams!
AMEN! GAME OVER! Any college team against these guys would be finished. Too Bad this isn’t our blog or our rules… but I still say … these active future Hall of Famers –> WIN!
yeah,, this will definitely win,
yeah..these highschool squad will kill them all,with my man KG..who’s stopping them?
Wake Forest has the greatest PF of all time PLUS Chris Paul, I’m sorry but they’d beat down any of those teams no matter who the other 3 players on their team were.
USC baby ha Demar Taj Oj NIck young yeaaaaaaa just wanted to throw that in there
UCONN wins this one hands down.
Can we not forget about Michigan state!
PG-Shannon Brown
SG-Jason Richardson
SF-Morris Petterson
PF-Zach Randolph
C- Paul Davis
Charlie bell, Maurice Ager, Alan Anderson, mateen Cleves, also attended to that are now in the league.
haha deffinetly nc put micheal on a team with anyone and they win
Thats not it at all
1st team
pg – Lebron James
sg – Kobe Bryant
sf – Tracy Mcgrady
pf – Kevin Garnett
c – Dwight Howard
2nd team
pg – Brandon Jennings
sg – Monta Ellis
sf – Rashard Lewis
pf – Josh Smith
c – Amare Stoudemire
any of your college starting 5 wont beat the 1st not even the 2nd team highschool ballers
If it’s based on how they’re currently playing swap out T-Mac and Melo and put Amare and Monta in and it’s definitely over..no team of current players no matter who you put on it would be them
Monta
Kobe
Lebron
STAT
Dwight
Wake Forest, Kentucky, Texas and Arizona are the 04 Best Teams…Lookig at the capabilities, I ll put my money on Wake Forest and Arizona
N.C.B.A WILDCATS [CUBAO PHIL.}
C- MJ TURATO
PF-DARRELL TURATO
SF-DANIEL TURATO
SG-NEIL TURATO
PG-NELSON TURATO
DONT FORGET OUR SCHOOL WITH THIS PLAYERS
GO GO WILDCATS
ateneo blue eagles!
LA tenorio
Chris tiu
JC intal
Rico villanueva
Rabeh al hussaini
highschool 2nd squad
pg Monta Ellis
sg JR Smith
pf Amar’e Stoudemire
sf Josh Smith
c Andrew Bynum
Michigan : Fab 5
Jalen Rose
JImmy King
Ray Jackson
Chris Webber
Juwan Howard
Heat Win against lakers
I say the Beasts of the East Celtics, with Allen, Pierce, Rondo, this team is unstoppable!! P.S. Smelo SUCKS!!!
az is totally in the midwest lol…
MEMPHISSSSSSSSSSS
DROSE
Yea I would go with the high school dudes too. I would add Amare Stoudemire to start since KG is my dude, but he is aging. I will make Andrew Bynum my backup center. I may also throw in the old Rashad Lewis off the bench too. But I would just start my international team and put them in the tournament. Let me get
Tony Parker (Barbosa, my backup PG)
Turkoglu (SG/SF) (Rudy Fernandez back up SG)
Dirk (SF/PF kill em on Offense, but suffer on defense lol) (Boris Diaw at back up SF)
Nene (Power Forward) ( Louis Scola from Houston at backup PF)
Pau Gasol ( at Center) (Andrew Bogut at back up Center)
I want to use Yao, but he been done for the season. Other notables that didnt quite make it – a young Peja Stojakovic, Marc Gasol, Carlos Delfino, Beno Udrih, and Jose Calderon. Im not counting international folks that played college ball.
KENTUCKY!
-rajon rondo
-chuck hayes
-demarcus cousins
-john wall
-eris bledsoe
-nazr muhammed
-patrick patterson
-tayshaun prince
-keith bogans
-jodie meeks
-jamaal magloire
-also kelenna azubuike, daniel orton, randolph morris, and joe crawford are in and out of the nba.
I think North Carolina makes a pretty strong bid to win …
PG ; Raymond Felton
SG ; Vince Carter
SF ; Mavin Williams
PF ; Antawn Jamison
C ; Brendan Haywood
Pretty complete lineup I’d say !
P.S not to mention !
PG ; Ty Lawson
SF ; Brandn Wright
PF ; Tyler Hansbrough ( Big Fan of this guy ! ) Look out for him in the futur !!!
Georgia Tech
STEPON MARBURY(OVERSEAS)-SG
JARRETT JACK-PG
THADDEUS YOUNG-SF
DERRICK FAVOR-C
CHRIS BOSH-PF
i agree da high school ballers would dominate
How about Kemba Walker?
@dotz
TRUE!
pg – monta ellis (lou williams, sebastian telfair)
sg – kobe bryant (jr smith, tracy mcgrady)
sf – lebron james (dorrell wright, travis outlaw)
pf – amare stoudamire (kevin garnett, josh smith)
c – dwight howard (andrew bynum, kendrick perkins)
First of all, the all High School team would have Josh Smith over McGrady at this point, and maybe Amare given the roster they have..
PG: Lebron
SG: Kobe
SF: Smith
PF: Garnett/Stoudemire
C: Howard
Easily the best team, as well as the best rebounding and defensive team by a wide margin. As for the college teams, UCLA, and UConn are slightly favored, but no one is a complete dominant team.
U of H back in the day! Everyone forgot how PHI SLAMMA JAMMA changed EVERYTHING! Clyde and the GOAT, HAKEEM THA DREAM!
High school ballers would school this college ballers.
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Wake Forest:
- Chris Paul
- Josh Howard
- Darius Songaila
- Tim Duncan
Wake, UCLA, Texas, Florida,Arizona and Duke all look pretty good to me. Remember that its a pick up game and you need some grinders and rebounders like Haslem, Love and Noah, also guys who can handle the ball and score if needed like Westbrook,CP3 .Also someone to block the middle like Duncan.
UCONN all the way !
How about High School team?
Kobe, Lebron, KG, Jermaine O’neal, and a random PG
Texas- Kevin Durant, Lamarcus Aldridge, T.J Ford, D.J Augustin, Daniel Gibson, Royal Ivey ( his name sounds like a plant
They’re school kids….. WHO GIVES A DAMN!!!!!!!!!
I like Texas because they had Kevin Durant, Daniel Gibson, Lamarcus Aldridge, D.J. Augustine, Damion James, Avery Bradley, T.J. Ford
GEORGE MASON…. (hooray. my schools on here now)
this is a fun one..
but all those college teams have no match for players who came right from highschool and went straight to the NBA..
PG- Brandon Jennings
SG- Kobe Bryant
SF- LeBron James
PF- Amare Stoudemire
C- Dwight Howard
Bench- Kevin Garnett, Jermaine O’neal, Tracy McGrady, Cj Miles
im just playin. but i know im ryt hahaha
the high school team owns… but instead of having t-mac’s broken body in the lineup why not make it look like this.
PG: LeBron
SG: Kobe
SF: KG
PF: Amar’e
C: Dwight
try scoring against that lineup…
also, I was tempted to put in Rashard Lewis in the lineup so the team has a shooter, but KG at the 3 sounded much more dominant.
What about international players?
PG: Tony Parker (can’t put Nash since he went to Santa Clara)
SG: Manu Ginobili
SF: Dirk Nowitzki
PF: Luis Scola
C: Pau Gasol
MIZZOU
Demarre Carrol
Keyon Dooling
Linas Kleiza…..
thats all we need we’ll go 3 on 5
or we can go get kareem rush and thomas gardner im sure they’re n the nba d-league somewhere???
hahaha
yeah , next time we pit SCHOOLS VS BREEDS
HIGHSCHOOL PLAYAS VS COLLEGE BOYS
SEE WHOS GONNA WIN BABY
BRUINS take this Championship!
UCONN has the best 5 of all teams…. staright up…
- Ben Gordon
- Ray Allen
- Richard Hamilton
- Caron Butler
- Emeka Okafor
LSU!!!!!!!
LOVE SHAQ UNIVERSITY
SMC TAGUM HS!! 2005
PG – Ryan Idulsa , Paul John Salundaguit , Edsel Manguilimutan
SG – Rionel ryan Balili , Alan Taojo , Lloyd hidalgo
SF – Jed Pajes , Ralph Gelbolingo , Jan johnson tan
PF – Gabriel Pague , jayson Aninon , Edmar Pateno
C – Darwin Padigos , Rupp John Seismundo , Paolo Bula
Tough…in no order my final four would be: Texas, Florida, UCONN, UCLA.
If Caron Butler wasn’t hurt right now…I think I’d give a razor thin edge to UCONN.
As it is…I’m having too hard a time deciding so I’m punking out and leaving it at a final four.
No GA Tech? Look at all the players they had…..no love?
Syracuse:
- Jonny Flynn
- Wesley Johnson
- Carmelo Anthony
- Hakim Warrick
- Donte Greene
Could be bcuz of the young energy
UCONN:
- Ben Gordon
- Ray Allen
- Richard Hamilton
- Rudy Gay
- Emeka Okafor
Straight Shooters
North Carolina:
- Ty Lawson
- Micheal Jordan
- Vince Carter
- Tyler Hansbrough
- Antawn Jamison
Just a Pure DYNASTY!!!
Rest of the schools good but those the top 3
NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS
PG-Kenny Smith/Raymond Felton
SG-Michael Jordan/Vince Carter/Jerry Stackhouse
SF-James Worthy/Rick Fox
PF-Tyler Hansbrough/Antawn Jamison
C-Rasheed Wallace/Sam Perkins
NOBODY COULD BEAT THIS TEAM!!!! TOO DEEP AND THEY GOT THE GREATEST OF ALL-TIME MJ!!!!!
UCLA would beat this team, you must be a typical BANDWAGON fan who hopped aboard after Jordan made a name for himself. Typical of most Duke/UNC fans. You probably haven’t set foot in the state of NC, either. UCLA has 11 NC’s for a reason, they have the most players to play in the NBA currently and All-Time. I doubt you’ll recognize half of the players below, but that;s a result of you not knowing historical players.
UCLA:
PG- Walt Hazzard/Baron Davis
SG- Reggie Miller/Gail Goodrich/Don Maclean
SF- Jamaal Wilks/Ed O’Bannon
PF- Marques Johnson//Sidney Wicks
C- Kareem Abdul-Jabaar/Bill Walton
awesome to see UCLA is still producing such great talent.
This is ridiculous. How many of these guys actually finished college? .8% of them? Most of them only stayed there for a year, so what’s ‘school pride’ for them? We might as well have high school or middle school pride!
High school ballers allstar team
monta ellis pg/sg
kobe bryant sg
lebron james sf
amare stoudemire pf
Dwight howard c
College basketball all star team
Derrick Rose-pg
dwayne wade-sg
carmello anthony-f
Tim Duncan- c
kevin durant f
what about the HOYAS?? Georgetown has a lot of bigman alumnus plus the flashy and only ‘The Answer’… Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo,..
Enough with the idiots picking UNC and MJ
That is a different conversation.
The issue is who would be the best now… or who would be the best if all players were in their prime. However the later is problematic because one could argue that players like Durant and Westbrook, and Rose, etc, etc may not yet be in their prime. I’m going to assume right now otherwise Shaq would dominate this field because no-one could guard him in his prime. Also: NO, NOT WHAT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS!!! That is also a different conversation.
- UCLA looks real tough, as does Florida, these 2 may be the best but Florida NEEDS better guards. On the other hand UCLA has the best guards of the group. (Westbrook, Collison, Afflalo, Farmar who? haha he wouldn’t make THIS team)
- Kentucky also has great guard play but Rondo wouldn’t be as effective because he can’t create his own shot and not enough players on that team are good enough shooters to make Rondo an assist machine. Realistically he is not even in the top 5 point guards in the NBA (sorry celtics fans). Besides the ball would need to be in Wall’s hands more than Rondo’s. Hayes and Cousins would be nasty inside but overall undersized.
- Uconn looks solid, real solid, but Emeka wouldn’t be able to get it done alone inside (Specifically Defense and defensive rebounding). Same goes for Texas’ Aldridge.
- UNC looks very attractive but would probably be better on paper than on a court. However they are well rounded which is a big plus for them.
- Wake looks great with Duncan and Paul but could be beat by other teams for sure.
- LSU is a beast inside but doesn’t have guard play which is obviously going to be their demise. Shaq is old now and can’t play more than 30 minutes in a game for fitness reasons, injury probability, and foul trouble.
-Wade would have no more individual impact for his team than Kevin Durant or Derrick Rose, they would both be MVP before Wade in this tournament… Melo who?
Final Four: Uconn, UCLA, Kentucky, UNC
Honorable mention / recruit some decent guards: Florida
I guess some people on here are brain-dead, because this uses players RIGHT NOW in this, no Michael Jordan, Tar Heels.
The Durant/LA combo wrecks everyone in this thing.
What about West Virginia david ebanks and joe alexander
I just realized that UCLA is stacked also, they have
Westbrook
Collison
Kapono
Love
Afflalo
Davis
UCLA should win this debate, they’re solid top to bottom and have a ton of depth. They have enough star players, some nice role guys, and a good amount of young talent. As for an All-Time team,
I know there are a ton of bandwagon UNC people out there that love Jordan/Carter/Worthy etc, but UCLA has 11 NC’s for a reason. There isn’t a college out there that could contend with guys like, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar/Reggie Miller/Bill Walton/Marques Johnson/Jamaal Wilks/Gail Goodrich/Don Maclean/Walt Hazzard/Sidney Wicks.
Texas, Uconn, Wake Forest, and UCLA final four.
All these college schools have great programs, this is where you wanna go if you want to be successful NBA..
arizona is a point guard university as you can see on the roster even those that are cut, they will not matchup against college schools who mold and focus on forwards..
If you’re making highschool teams you can onnly pick players from the same highschool, or you make a Highschool Vs College team where you could pick any player comming from HS against any player comming from college or else it isn’t fair
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Those HS kids would get beaten, any way most players comming from HS are ball hogs, they wouldn’t pass the ball if their lives where on the line… do you imagine Kobe, Lebron, T mac, Stat on the same team ? ( not counting Dwight because he is the less selfish of them all )
UCONN over UCLA in the final. Shouldn’t high school and international players get their own bracket too. (by country)
Chris Webber
Jalen Rose
Juwan Howard
Jimmy King
Ray Jackson
First choice any day.
I love this whole premise, but I think it would have been cooler if they would have made actual teams. A lot of the teams have 3 shooting guards and no point. Or 3 power forwards and no point. Obviously if there aren’t enough alumni, then I understand. But there were some solid guards on the Duke bench that could’ve been on the team raining threes or dishing dimes. Maybe next year do an 8 man rotation.
I see your point, and certainly that does hold some water – but the way I saw it was, in a pickup game, you’d pick the five best guys. As a Duke fan, would you really rather have Chris Duhon out there over Corey Maggette just because he’s a point guard?
UCLA beats Kentucky/Uconn in the final.
kansas is also decent. chalmers, drew gooden, brandon rush, darrell arthur, and pierce. gotta take ucla though
in all time. north carolina. and ucla are the favorites because of the large number of pros and hall of famers. In the last 20 years. UConn and Duke runs away with it in a land slide. In the past 5 years. Memphis. Kentucky are hot.
Not Just My Top 4 but The Top 4 Schools is
1.UCONN
2.DUKE
3.UCLA
4.FLORIDA
you guys are forgetting about University of Beijing, Yao Ming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll take the highschoolers..
1-LeBron James
2-Kobe Bryant
3-Kevin Garnett
4-Amare Stoudemire
5-Dwight Howard
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