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We recently completed an All time Lakers draft. We now ask the Lakers board community to judge our rosters, ranking their top 5 teams. When completed, we'll have a winner for our contest.


RULES: Rank your top 5 best teams. Your #1 ranked team will receive 5 pts, your #5 team will receive 1 pt.

WHO CAN VOTE? Anyone can vote. People that participated in the draft can vote, just not for themselves. People that didn't participate just vote for your top 5.

WHEN DOES VOTING END? Voting will end Sunday at 9am pacific. Votes will be counted as soon as possible after that. Any vote after that deadline will not count.

WHATS THE CRITERIA? Please vote for the best team, simple as that. Keep in mind that each player on the roster only counts for the season he is listed for.

NEED A HISTORY REMINDER? Here's the LAL franchise index that you can use to give you a refresher on who did what which season.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAL/

WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFO ON THESE PLAYERS?

follow one of these links:

Draft roster

Draft Discussion



THE CANDIDATES

Team Kobe

pg: Sasha Vujacic 07-08 / Jordan Farmar 07-08
sg: Kobe Bryant 02-03
sf: Ron Harper 99-00
pf:Happy Hairston 73-74/ Brian Cook 05-06
c: Elden Cambell 96-97 / Kermit Washington 76-77


Team Magic

pg: Magic Johnson (86-87)/Earl Tatum 77-78
sg: Adrian Dantley (77-78)/Terry Teagle(91-92)
sf: Caron Butler (04-05)
pf: Bob McAdoo (82-83)/Mitch Kupchak (81-82)
c: Vlade Divac (94-95)


Team Shaq

PG: Slater Martin (1954-1955) / Chucky Atkins (2004-2005)
SG: Anthony Peeler (1992-1993)
SF: Cedric Ceballos (1994-1995) / Luke Walton (2006-2007)
PF: A.C. Green (1988-1989) / Maurice Lucas (1985-1986)
C: Shaquille O'Neal (1999-2000)


Team Kareem

pg: Nick Van Exel (94-95)
sg: Dick Barnett (62-63) / Bobby 'Slick' Leonard (56-57)
sf: Rick Fox (97-98)
pf: Mel Counts (68-69) / Bullet Bob' Boozer (65-66)
c: Kareem Abdul Jabbar (75-76) / Jim Krebs (1961-1962)


Team Elgin

PG: Gary Payton, 2003-2004 / Archie Clark, PG, 1967-1968
SG: Eddie Jones, 1997-1998
SF: Elgin Baylor, 1960-1961
PF: Connie Hawkins, 1973-1974 / Orlando Woolridge, PF, 1989-1990
C: Walter Dukes, 1956-1957 / Bill Bridges, C, 1972-1973


Team Wilt

PG: Norm Nixon, 1981-1982
SG: Jim Price 1973-1974
SF: Jim McMillian, 1971-1972 / Lou Hudson 1977-1978
PF: Elmore Smith, 1973-1974 / Leroy Ellis 1965-1966
C: Wilt Chamberlain, 1968-1969 / Jim Chones 1980-1981


Team West

PG: Lucius Allen ('74-75)/ Brian Shaw
SG: Jerry West ('65-'66)
SF: Tom Hawkins ('67-'68)
PF: Clyde Lovellette ('55-'56) / Roberty Horry ('01-'02)
C: Larry Foust ('57-'58) / Mychal Thompson ('87-'88)


Team Worthy

PG Sedale Threat '91-'92
SG "Hot" Rod Hundley '59-'60 / Pat Riley '74-75
SF James Worthy '86-'87
PF Dennis Rodman '98-'99 / Sam Perkins '91-'92
C Andrew Bynum '07-'08 / James "Buddah" Edwards '77-'78


Team Gasol

pg: Derek Fisher 2000-01
sg: Jim Pollard 1951-52 / Shannon Brown 2009-10
sf: Glen Rice 1998-99 / Kurt Rambis 1982-83
pf:Karl Malone 2003-04 / Vladimir Radmanovic 2007-08
c: Paul Gasol 2009-10


Team Goodrich

pg: Gail Goodrich 71-72/ Lindsey Hunter 01-02
sg: Michael Cooper 86-87
sf: Ron Artest 09-10/ Doug Christie 93-94
pf: Rudy LaRusso 61-62
c: Darrall Imhoff 66-67 / Horace Grant 00-01


Team Mikan

pg: Frank Selvy, 1961-1962 / Richard Eugene Garmaker 1956-57
sg: Keith Erickson 1972-1973 / Mike McGee 1984-1985
sf: Cazzie Russell, 1976-77 / George Lynch 1993-1994
pf: Jamaal Wilkes 1980-1981
c: George Mikan, 1950-1951


Team Scott

PG: Mahdi Abdul Rahman 65/66 / Donnie Freeman 75/76
SG: Byron Scott 87-88
SF: Trevor Ariza 08/09 / Jumaine Jones 04/05
PF: Lamar Odom 06-07
C: Vern Mikkelson 54/55 / Chris Mihm 04/05

feel free to ask questions or discuss before submitting a vote.

One more thing, use bold red font while posting your votes guys, so that its much easier for the guy that ends up counting with all the other posts lying around.

like

1. Team1
2. Team5
3. Team3
4. Team7
5. Team2

thanks for voting ROballer!

Bump!

we can vote, just not for ourselves, right?

I think the stats need to be shown.

TyCobb wrote:I think the stats need to be shown.

Yeah, I want to win.







Although stats aren't a good thing b/c different players bring different types of stats.

Player personnel looks like Team Magic or Team Wilt. Thanks for the links to check the stats.

1 TEAM WORTHY.......Killer front line
2 TEAM GASOL........Malone with Pau allows Pau freedom
3 TEAM MAGIC......Dantley,Butler and McAdoo....3 man scoring assult
4 TEAM KAREEM.....Don't know how much Cap sees ball with Nick
5 TEAM WILT.....Wilt and Elmore!......the paint is off limits

How long is the voting open until? I should have my vote in soon.

DEEP3CL wrote:1 TEAM WORTHY.......Killer front line
2 TEAM GASOL........Malone with Pau allows Pau freedom
3 TEAM MAGIC......Dantley,Butler and McAdoo....3 man scoring assult
4 TEAM KAREEM.....Don't know how much Cap sees ball with Nick
5 TEAM WILT.....Wilt and Elmore!......the paint is off limits

Not for nuthin and to keep this at the top...

Nick has the 3rd highest assist per game percentage (7.3) in Lakers history after Magic (11.2) and Norm Nixon (7.9). And for that season he averaged 8.4 for the season and 7.3 in the post season.
He also had the highest assist percentage next to Magic in team history.

DEEP3CL wrote:1 TEAM WORTHY.......Killer front line
2 TEAM GASOL........Malone with Pau allows Pau freedom
3 TEAM MAGIC......Dantley,Butler and McAdoo....3 man scoring assult
4 TEAM KAREEM.....Don't know how much Cap sees ball with Nick
5 TEAM WILT.....Wilt and Elmore!......the paint is off limits

don't mean to hate on good ol team worthy, but please consider that you only get players based on how they played for the lakers. rodmoan is anything but killer.

Not to forget Drew played like 37 games all season. Same with team Pau. That's Malone on his last legs and Pau playing center.

Should've went a different judging route. lol

j-far wrote:Not to forget Drew played like 37 games all season. Same with team Pau. That's Malone on his last legs and Pau playing center.

Hello from the owner of team Paul

Number one 1. Malone was still a 20 pts 8reb guy in 2003-2004(that is his stats the year before). But he had to share the ball with Shaq,Kobe and Payton. So yes this was his last season but he was still one of the best PF in the game and a great player.
Number 2. Paul Gasol starts games for the Lakers at a PF but he playes most of his min as a C. Bynum has been injured a lot and if you look at the playoffs the last two season you see Gasol more at C then PF and how has that work????

I dont like when people come and talk bad thinks about teams when people are voting. You can pick your 5 best teams. say good thinks about thoes teams and then you are done.
I think there are some great teams in here and some not so good teams but i am not going to talk bad about teams when there are people voting.
But hey that is just me