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LA Lakers
Key Players: Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum

Phoenix
Key Players: Amare Stoudemire, Steve Nash, Shaquille O'Neal

Sacramento
Key Players: Kevin Martin, Ron Artest, Brad Miller

LA Clippers
Key Players: Elton Brand, Chris Kaman, Al Thornton

Golden State
Key Players: Baron Davis, Monta Ellis, Stephen Jackson

Rules: You are NOT voting for who is the best team right now, but how well the roster is set up for not the future and the team who has the most assets to improve to the best.

First off, you don't have the suns on the poll.

Through the end of this year? Suns

Next year onwards? Lakers

The Lakers then the Warriors. Shaq and Nash aren't getting any better. Elton Brand may not even be a Clipper next season. Sac is basically at about 90% of their peak unless they hit a home run in the draft. They don't even have any interesting prospects on the bench these days. They're a long ways away from the days when they had Gerald Wallace, Corliss Willamson, Bobby Jackson, Keon Clark, and Hedo coming off the bench.

Lakers here hands down. While Kobe is reaching his 30's, he's way too skilled to see a huge dropoff in his game to the point he won't be considered for all star selection in like his mid 30's and beyond (unless the shooting guard crop gets significantly better), and Bynum isn't even old enough to buy alcohol and he's already one of the better centers in the league pre injury.