Make a contender from non-lottery picks

[Celtics18]

Here's mine:

Rajon Rondo
Arron Afflalo
Nic Batum
Josh Smith
Marc Gasol

or

Tony Parker
Eric Bledsoe
Chandler Parsons
Zach Randolph
Roy Hibbert

or

Ty Lawson
Monta Ellis
Kawhi Leonard
Carlos Boozer
Deandre Jordan

or . . .

[manl_lui]

Here's mine:

Rajon Rondo
Arron Afflalo
Nic Batum
Josh Smith
Marc Gasol

or

Tony Parker
Eric Bledsoe
Chandler Parsons
Zach Randolph
Roy Hibbert

or

Ty Lawson
Monta Ellis
Kawhi Leonard
Carlos Boozer
Deandre Jordan

or . . .

2nd one looks deadly

[action781]

Tony Parker
Danny Green
Kawhi Leonard
Boris Diaw
Tiago Splitter


...with Manu Ginobili as the first player off the bench

[Celtics18]

Tony Parker
Danny Green
Kawhi Leonard
Boris Diaw
Tiago Splitter


...with Manu Ginobili as the first player off the bench

Nice.   

[PhoSita]

I'd post my list, but it's similar to others.

The thing that stands out is how many players from the Spurs or Pacers I find myself wanting to put on my team.

[Monkhouse]

Rajon Rondo
Danny Green
Kawhi Leonard
Sullinger
Marc Gasol

I think this team alone can contend easily. You have shooters, great passing team with intelligent players/defenders. Leonard can guard the best players like Durant or Lebron, Green is a solid sharp shooting 3 and D kind of guy. Sullinger is already proving to be an vital piece to a contender. And Gasol is the excellent communicating help defense big to anchor.

[D.o.s.]

Awesome topic.

In an effort to avoid overlapping too much:

PG: Rondo/Dragic/Aaron Brookes
SG: Belinelli/Rudy Fernandez/Aaron Afflalo
SF: Batum/Wilson Chandler
PF: Ibaka/Big Baby/Carl Landry
C: Pekovic/Splitter

Playing as a George Karl-coached Denver Nuggets squad (to take advantage of the Pepsi Center altitude).

[Moranis]

My 2011 only non-lottery pick team

C - Nikola Vucevic
PF - Kenneth Faried
SF - Kawhi Leonard
SG - Jimmy Butler
PG - Isiah Thomas

with Chandler Parsons, Iman Shumpert, Tobias Harris, and Norris Cole as the main rotation

Clearly not a contender, but I think that would be a fun exciting team and wanted to do something a bit different than everyone else.


Now 2008 I think you could have a real contender

C - Roy Hibbert
PF - Serge Ibaka
SF - Nicolas Batum
SG - Goran Dragic
PG - George Hill
bench - Nikola Pekovic, Mario Chalmers, Deandre Jordan, Omer Asik, Ryan Anderson, Courtney Lee, Robin Lopez, JaVale McGee, JJ Hickson, Luc Mbah a Moute