Pro Basketball's Best

I used to be a huge fan of professional basketball during the Magic-Bird era, and then, watching the incomparable Michael Jordan. I know any list of this sort is a debate starter, but here goes:Starting five by skill level not position- Twin Towers of Bill Russell from the Dons of San Francisco and the force behind so many Boston Celtics championships and Wilt Chamberlain with his brief stay at the University of Kansas and on several National Basketball Association teams and perhaps oddly, the Harlem Globetrotters on a team of showmen that with Chamberlain probably would have been capable of beating any team in the NBA. Wings of the aforementioned Magic Johnson (out of Michigan State and leading the Lakers to their second era of dominance), Oscar Robertson from the University of Cincinnati, who won only one championship with the Milwaukee Bucks, but who was the first and one of the few pro players to ever average a triple double (points, rebounds, and assists), and last but certainly not least, Michael Jordan, the North Carolina Tarheel who with the Chicago Bulls was virtually unbeatable once he had a quality team around him. To summarize these starters would have the greatest defensive force of all-time in Russell, the only player to score a hundred points in a single game in Chamberlain, the most balletic point producer in Jordan, and two assist kings in Robertson and Johnson with Magic being the first one through five positionless player to be dominant in the game.