Given that the games are over and we're currently stuck with watching older games back or watching nothing at all, a lot of people on NBA Twitter have been doing some all-time discussions, some prospect evaluation, etc etc, to cover for the lack of ongoing NBA activity.
One of the discussions which has come up, that I find particularly interesting, is this one: what is your all time favourite starting 5? That is, not necessarily the all time best starting 5, where you're basically required to choose certain players for certain spots (Jordan at SG, for example) but the 5 guys that you enjoy/enjoyed watching most.
So, I figured that it could be kind of interesting if people on the board gave their lists: what's your All Time Favourite Starting 5?
Here's mine:
PG: Steve Nash
SG: Jrue Holiday
SF: Lebron James
PF: Zion Williamson
C: David Robinson
And hey, screw it, list a 6th man too: I'm going Manu Ginobili.
There are a few caveats surrounding my team (I've gone with Zion despite him only playing 19 games because he's been fantastically fun to watch and I loved him at Duke as well, but I acknowledge it's super premature), but I think it would be a fun team to watch.
If I was designing the team to be 'better', with a better distribution of skills, rather than just purely based on who I enjoy watching, I would probably move Lebron to PF and insert someone like Durant at the 3, to add some shooting; Jrue, Lebron, Zion, Admiral is not exactly a sharp-shooting roster.
Nash and Lebron on the same team though? The passing would be just absurd. And Lebron would finally be able to sit without his team's offense falling to pieces