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I though it would be fun if we all create our hypothetical "dream teams" consisting of current NBA players and their salaries for 2012. If a player doesn't have a contract in 2012 yet, just count their salary for 2011. I'm not thinking along the lines of a "who has the best team" competition, but rather what players you would personally love to root for.

Let's stay within $2m of the cap for 2011. which is $58.044 Million. You can find all player salary info here: http://www.sportscity.com/NBA/Utah-Jazz-Salaries (drop down menu @ the top).


I'll put mine together in a sec!

Starters:

PG: Derrick Rose
SG Wes Mathews
SF: Kevin Durant
PF: Blake Griffin
C: Marc Gasol

Bench:
PG: Earl Watson, Eric Maynor
SG: Arron Afflalo, DeMar Derozan
SF: Gordon Hayward, (Derozan)
PF: Paul Millsap, Derrick Favors
C: Kendrick Perkins, (Favors)


Coach: Tom Thibodeau

PG: Derrick Rose (6.99)
SG: Gordon Hayward (2.53)
SF: Lebron James (16.02)
PF: Al Horford (5.95)
C: Dwight Howard (17.14)

PG: Rodrigue Beaubois (1.16), Eddie House (1.40)
SG: George Hill (1.74)
SF: Nicolas Batum (1.80)
PF: Serge Ibaka (1.29)
C: Roy Hibbert (2.16), Ben Wallace (2.08*)

Payroll: 57.36M
*2011 Salary

Coach: George Karl

Do a slightly higher salary cap and then only one or two players on a rookie contract.

PG: Kirk Hinrich (9) CJ Watson, Price
SG: Tony Allen (3) Carlos Delfino, Watson
SF: Gordan Hayward (2.35) Jerebko, Millsap
PF : Nene (11.36) Millsap, Favors
C: Joakim Noah (10) Favors, Thomas

Coach: Adelman

CJ Watson 3.100
Ronnie Price 1.38
Carlos Delfino 3.5
Jonas Jerebko 762,195
Paul Millsap 6.2
Derrik Favors 4.13
Kurt Thomas 1.35

56.141

I like this team because it has size, shooting, and lots of defense. Each player knows what they do well and plays within themselves, there aren't a lot of egos so chemistry would be ok. Not too young, not too old. There's a lot of versatility, Hinrich and Watson can both play the two so we could still run our patented two point guard set. Nobody would want to play against our big guys, they're all bruisers. Nene, Millsap, Thomas, and Favors can all hit the mid range J so the paint won't be more crowded than it already is with Jefferson.

My Team

PG: D Rose (6.99)
SG: Gordon Hayward (2.53)
SF: Kevin Durrant (13)
PF: Blake Griffin (5.7)
C: Al Horford (5.95)

Bench
PG's Westbrook, and Wall (9.2)
SG and SF Eric Gordon, Tyreke Evans (7.2)
PF D Favors (4.1)
C's Brooks Lopez and Deandra Jordon (3.4)

Payroll: $58.07 M
*2011 Salary

Coach Tom Thibodeau
Think of all the different lineups
NBA CHAMPS 2011-2021

hoops4life wrote:Do a slightly higher salary cap and then only one or two players on a rookie contract.

Good point.

You aren't likely to actually have a team of Rose, Griffin, Hayward, and Favors. They are all good and cheap because they are on a rookie contract.

I think you could do a dream team rookie salary and then a normal team.