The Ultimate Game

[steve]

Create the best Celtic's starting 5 and the best Lakers starting 5 from any player that wore the respective jersey from any generation.

Judge the players by their prime as a Celtic or a Laker, so for instance a 37 year old Karl Malone would not be your starting power forward for the Lakers, likewise a 37 year old Nique wouldn't make your C's squad.     

5 on 5 pick up game.  What are the teams and who wins? 

[cuckroller]

Any particular time frame, or every player in every franchise's history?

[ma11l]

Wow, very interesting stuff here, let's see...


Our 5:

PG: Cousy
SG: Hondo
SF: Larry
PF: KG
C:  Russell


Their 5:

PG: Magic
SG: Jerry West
SF: Elgin Baylor
PF: Kareem
C: Wilt

Wow, imagine Wilt and Kareem on the floor together, how about KG and Russell.  I like the Celts winning a close one, Russell blocking Wilt's chance to win, followed by Larry nailing the game winner.  Hey, we've won 8 out of 10 NBA Finals why not win this game too?

[Donoghus]

It is ridiculous how much talent these two franchises have had over the years.  You know you've been lucky when you can actually have legit debate on who'd be in your franchise's starting 5.  Even the all time benches from these two franchises would give other franchises STARTING FIVES a run for their money.   

Gotta appreciate the basketball history here.

[Redz]

Celts
PG: Cousy
SG: Hondo
SF: Larry
PF: KG
C:  Russell

Lakers
PG: Nick Van Exel
SG: Sedale Threatt
SF: Chucky Brown
PF: Fred Roberts (for you Bahku)
C:  Benoit Benjamin

Throw those 10 out in their prime and let the merciless Laker bloodletting begin.

[steve]

It's tough to omit Kobe and Shaq. 

KG and Russel would kill Wilt and Kareem.

The coaches would be RED vs Phil.

[ma11l]

Celts
PG: Cousy
SG: Hondo
SF: Larry
PF: KG
C:  Russell

Lakers
PG: Nick Van Exel
SG: Sedale Threatt
SF: Chucky Brown
PF: Fred Roberts (for you Bahku)
C:  Benoit Benjamin

Throw those 10 out in their prime and let the merciless Laker bloodletting begin.

Haha TP for that great Lakers lineup, and for having the same 5 Celts as I thought.

[Roy Hobbs]

Russell
McHale
Bird
Havlicek
Cousy

(Bench would be: Parish, Tommy, Pierce, DJ, Sam Jones, JoJo, Cowens)

Kareem
Baylor
Kobe
West
Magic

(Bench would be: Wilt, Worthy, Shaq, Goodrich, Scott, Cooper, Mikan)

And of course I'm picking the Celtics.

[pslakerfan]

Russell
McHale
Bird
Havlicek
Cousy

(Bench would be: Parish, Tommy, Pierce, DJ, Sam Jones, JoJo, Cowens)

Kareem
Baylor
Kobe
West
Magic

(Bench would be: Wilt, Worthy, Shaq, Goodrich, Scott, Cooper, Mikan)

And of course I'm picking the Celtics.

So who on this Celtics team would guard Kobe???

[Edgar]

Russell
McHale
Bird
Havlicek
Cousy

(Bench would be: Parish, Tommy, Pierce, DJ, Sam Jones, JoJo, Cowens)

Kareem
Baylor
Kobe
West
Magic

(Bench would be: Wilt, Worthy, Shaq, Goodrich, Scott, Cooper, Mikan)

And of course I'm picking the Celtics.

So who on this Celtics team would guard Kobe???

Kobe will get his selfish 40
but Bird will post up 45 on him...

[Bahku]

Russell
McHale
Bird
Havlicek
Cousy

(Bench would be: Parish, Tommy, Pierce, DJ, Sam Jones, JoJo, Cowens)

Kareem
Baylor
Kobe
West
Magic

(Bench would be: Wilt, Worthy, Shaq, Goodrich, Scott, Cooper, Mikan)

And of course I'm picking the Celtics.

Woah, Roy ... these starting teams are exactly what I was about to post! (Twilight Zone music starts) Gotta TP that one! (Really liked your haiku, too, by the way ... got my vote on that one)

[ma11l]

Russell
McHale
Bird
Havlicek
Cousy

(Bench would be: Parish, Tommy, Pierce, DJ, Sam Jones, JoJo, Cowens)

Kareem
Baylor
Kobe
West
Magic

(Bench would be: Wilt, Worthy, Shaq, Goodrich, Scott, Cooper, Mikan)

And of course I'm picking the Celtics.

So who on this Celtics team would guard Kobe???

Kobe will get his selfish 40
but Bird will post up 45 on him...

Celts play team defense, don't need one guy covering Kobe.  Russell would block him going to the rim at least 5 or 6 times.  If we needed to match up against Kobe we could just pick a different player for our 5 who was a lock down defender.  Maybe Scalabrine.

[Eja117]

Celts

pg Cousy
sg PP
sf bird
pf McHale
c Russell

Lakers
pg Magic
sg Jerry West
sf Kareem
pf Wilt Chamberlin
c Shaq

[Edgar]

 forgot to post

do u remember Havlicheck stole the ball?  

[Roy Hobbs]

Russell
McHale
Bird
Havlicek
Cousy

(Bench would be: Parish, Tommy, Pierce, DJ, Sam Jones, JoJo, Cowens)

Kareem
Baylor
Kobe
West
Magic

(Bench would be: Wilt, Worthy, Shaq, Goodrich, Scott, Cooper, Mikan)

And of course I'm picking the Celtics.

So who on this Celtics team would guard Kobe???

Havlicek, Pierce, DJ, and JoJo would all more than hold their own.