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Most of Nos team I have to google to see who they are.you might have the best team if they played but your not going to get the fan vote.
Seems me and smitty are thinkin the same way. Although I might add Kobe to that list.
damn, I think I have Paul Pierce still playing...not going to get votes now.
whew, he is on the bench.
Im cool with lots of current players,...... off the bench. They were just all gone by the time I went looking for them. Had to settle for HOFers lower in my rotation instead.
I know, I still can't believe how many HOFers, ring wearers are still not on teams. You look at the top 100 to 150 players of all time and amazed how many aren't in this draft.
It's kind of crazy how much the 50's, 60's and 70's era guys were ignored. Not like we're talking ancient history-barnstorming-two hand set shot guys. But greats pre Bird vs. Magic definitely got downplayed by most in this draft. (Jerry Lucas off the bench is just nuts. The guy was as big of star and fan favorite as there was. But his career ended in the early 70's...)
Paul Arizin
In the early days of the NBA a handful of pioneering players laid the groundwork for what would become "modern" basketball. What Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Cy Young were to baseball, these early hoopsters were to the game of basketball. One such player was Paul Arizin. Playing in an era of old-fashioned two-handed set shots and slow-up offenses, Arizin burst into the league in 1950 with a repertoire that included a daring new weapon: the jump shot. By the time Arizin was leading the league in scoring as a second-year player with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1952, only a few other players had mastered the shot