Archive for the 'All-Decade Teams' Category

I'd be remiss if I didn't link to BBR Blog fave Kelly Dwyer's ongoing series at Ball Don't Lie, highlighting the top 10 players of the Oughts by position:

• Point Guards
• Shooting Guards
• Small Forwards
• Power Forwards
• Centers

As always, they're fun reads even though I don't agree with everything in there. And besides, it's nice to see somebody getting more Kobe-related hate mail than me.

Recently, Football Outsiders listed their 25 most underrated and overrated players of the decade (BTW, is anyone even surprised that FO favorite Bobby "Mr. 3rd Down" Engram showed up high on the former list, or that longtime whipping boy DeShaun Foster topped the latter?), and it got me to thinking about assembling a similar list for the NBA.

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When I wrote my post about the All-Decade Teams for the 2000s, I meant to include a section on coaches, but somehow it slipped my mind. Today I would like to make up for that omission by first explaining the system that I use, and then present my selections for the All-Decade Team coaches.

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Since we're nearing the end of another decade, I thought it would be interesting to come up with All-Decade teams for the 2000s. I know that technically the decade is not over yet, but the NBA has a split season, and since we've already crowned the 2009 NBA champions it seems to me that the 2008-09 season is a good breaking point.

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