NBA fans have gotten used to thinking of hypothetical scenarios and imagining what would happen if they were as real as them. These discussions have become very popular within the community, with more and more fans trying to make their points when it comes to who is the greatest player of all time or who will be who if they ever went at it.
Start, Bench and Cut has been around for a while, but recently, some fans have been pushed to select one player they would delete from a team’s history, starting with the Los Angeles Lakers. The Purple and Gold have boasted incredible players throughout their history, but this was really easy for some of their fans.
Instagram page ZG Visuals recently shared another interesting graphic to ask fans to create another team to beat the squad he put together for his pic. ‘Zane’ used Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O’Neal, asking their followers to come up with a team that can beat this legendary starting 5.
Of course, fans quickly responded to the challenge, creating some interesting squads.
Magic Wade KD Giannis Wilt
PG – ’95 Penny Hardaway SG – ’04 Tracy McGrady SF – ’13 Kevin Durant PF – ’21 Giannis Antetokounmpo C – ’08 Dwight Howard
Smush Parker, Robert sacre, kwame brown, Adam Morrison, mike dunleavy
Swap out magic for lebron and it’s a rap
I’ll take PG: Magic Johnson SG: KD SF: The Claw PF: Giannis C: Yao Ming
All in prime Magics running PG AI at the 2, KD at the 3 & Tim Duncan & Hakeem as my big
PG: Jason Kidd SG: Tracy McGrady SF: KD PF: GIANNIS C: Dream
Magic, AI, KD, Giannis, Duncan,
Tough one. Give me: PG: Allen Iverson SG: Kawhi Leonard SF: Kevin Durant PF: Tim Duncan C: Hakeem Olajuwon
Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett
Magic Johnson, Reggie Miller, Larry Bird, Tim Duncan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Magic Tmac Durant Giannis Embiid
1. Isaiah Thomas 2. Dwyane Wade 3. Kevin Durant 4. Giannis Antetokounmpo 5. Hakeem Olajuwon
While some fans took their chance to be trolls, others put up good teams that would give this squad a run for their money. Unfortunately, in these cases, we’ll never know which team would have won, but it’s a great exercise if you’re a basketball fan.
