90s with Steph/LeBron vs 10s/20s with MJ/Duncan

[durantbird]

90s with Steph/LeBron:
Steph Curry / John Stockton
Magic Johnson / Clyde Drexler
LeBron James / Scottie Pippen
Karl Malone / Charles Barkley
Hakeem Olajuwon / David Robinson

10s/20s with MJ/Duncan:
Chris Paul / James Harden
Michael Jordan / Kawhi Leonard
Kevin Durant / Giannis Antetokounmpo
Tim Duncan / Anthony Davis
Nikola Jokic / Joel Embiid

Which team wins in a series? One year peaks of these players from each decade

[AEnigma]

How are you going to make a ten man all-NBA roster where Lebron is one of the three or four best shooters

[MyUniBroDavis]

Steph isn’t the second best player on his team btw

[Colbinii]

Steph isn’t the second best player on his team btw

Neither is Jordan

[MyUniBroDavis]

Steph isn’t the second best player on his team btw

Neither is Jordan

I’m confused what you mean here

[Colbinii]

Steph isn’t the second best player on his team btw

Neither is Jordan

I’m confused what you mean here

It's a tongue-in-cheek comment about how if you don't think Steph going back in time wouldn't be a Top 2 player here [especially with a potential reduced 3P line, teams having little idea how to actually defend him on/off ball] then Jordan would suffer a similar fate.

I think it is far more likely a player in today's league is better in a previous era than the inverse.

[MyUniBroDavis]

Neither is Jordan

I’m confused what you mean here

It's a tongue-in-cheek comment about how if you don't think Steph going back in time wouldn't be a Top 2 player here [especially with a potential reduced 3P line, teams having little idea how to actually defend him on/off ball] then Jordan would suffer a similar fate.

I think it is far more likely a player in today's league is better in a previous era than the inverse.

I think I get lumped in with the Jordan Wrecking crew cuz they and one my posts a lot so I wasn’t sure which direction you were going when u were saying he wasn’t 2 lol

[Rishkar]

90s with Steph/LeBron:
Steph Curry / John Stockton
Magic Johnson / Clyde Drexler
LeBron James / Scottie Pippen
Karl Malone / Charles Barkley
Hakeem Olajuwon / David Robinson

10s/20s with MJ/Duncan:
Chris Paul / James Harden
Michael Jordan / Kawhi Leonard
Kevin Durant / Giannis Antetokounmpo
Tim Duncan / Anthony Davis
Nikola Jokic / Joel Embiid

Which team wins in a series? One year peaks of these players from each decade

I'd be a little worried about the Hakeem-Jokic matchup, so I think I'd slide Duncan to center, KD to shooting guard (guarding Malone), and Kawhi to SF (especially because of Lebron) and have Jokic as a crazy microwave offensive engine. I'd move MJ to point guard (as I think he'll do better on Steph) and add Giannis at PF (to guard Magic).

[dygaction]

The second unit of 10s/20s can give the 90s team a run

[durantbird]

Steph isn’t the second best player on his team btw

He wasn't supposed to be

[OhayoKD]

Neither is Jordan

I’m confused what you mean here

It's a tongue-in-cheek comment about how if you don't think Steph going back in time wouldn't be a Top 2 player here [especially with a potential reduced 3P line, teams having little idea how to actually defend him on/off ball] then Jordan would suffer a similar fate.

I think it is far more likely a player in today's league is better in a previous era than the inverse.

Giannis is the 2nd best player for both teams so this is moot

[McBubbles]

Team 10/20's bench destroys team 90's bench. They win easily.

[dygaction]

90s with Steph/LeBron:
Steph Curry / John Stockton
Magic Johnson / Clyde Drexler
LeBron James / Scottie Pippen
Karl Malone / Charles Barkley
Hakeem Olajuwon / David Robinson

10s/20s with MJ/Duncan:
Chris Paul / James Harden
Michael Jordan / Kawhi Leonard
Kevin Durant / Giannis Antetokounmpo
Tim Duncan / Anthony Davis
Nikola Jokic / Joel Embiid

Which team wins in a series? One year peaks of these players from each decade

If Murray can work with Jokic, so can Jordan. I would switch out CP3 for Kawhi in the starting lineup to leverage the proven KL/Duncan combo against LeBron.

Michael Jordan / Chris Paul
Kawhi Leonard / James Harden
Kevin Durant / Giannis Antetokounmpo
Tim Duncan / Anthony Davis
Nikola Jokic / Joel Embiid

[Ol Roy]

I might rearrange the 90s starting lineup to significantly improve the defense. Given that Curry is a point guard, and Pippen and James are both point forwards, I don't think Magic's facilitating would be missed as much.

Curry
Pippen
James
Olajuwon
Robinson

[iggymcfrack]

I feel like if we assume everyone's at 100% health going into the series, the modern team with MJ and Duncan wins due to their deeper bench. But if we assume this happens at the end of a 100 game run where everyone's playing hard, all of a sudden, the team with CP3, KD, Kawhi, Embiid, AD, and Giannis doesn't look so deep any more.

[youngcrev]

Which eras rules are we playing by?