Can you name the Nba best players by decade? by shakesula

Can you name the Nba best players by decade?

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Can you name the best starting linups of each decade? From 1940-2010 Taken from Sports Illustrated.
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Decade/Position	Player	Team
1940/PG		Capitols
1940/SG		Royals
1940/SF		Stags
1940/PF		Warriors
1940/C		Lakers
1950/PG		Celtics
1950/SG		Celtics
1950/SF		Hawks
1950/PF		Warriors
1950/C		Lakers
1960/PG		Lakers
1960/SG		Royals
1960/SF		Hawks
1960/PF		Lakers
1960/C		Celtics
1970/PG		Hawks, Jazz
1970/SG		Lakers
1970/SF		Celtics

Decade/Position	Player	Team
1970/PF		76ers
1970/C		Bucks, Lakers
1980/PG		Lakers
1980/SG		Bulls
1980/SF		Celtics
1980/PF		76ers
1980/C		Lakers
1990/PG		Jazz
1990/SG		Bulls
1990/SF		76ers, Suns, Rockets
1990/PF		Jazz
1990/C		Rockets
2000/PG		Suns, Nets, Mavs
2000/SG		Lakers
2000/SF		Cavs, Heat
2000/PF		Spurs
2000/C		Lakers, Heat, Suns, Cavs

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Nba best players by decade Quiz

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Created Jul 9, 2010 in Sports
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	PrimeToasta:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 19:25 GMT		13 points
	Change Haclicek to Havlicek.

	Kballs:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 19:32 GMT		2 points
	Cut the time by about 5 minutes. Also, adding the teams makes most of this a little too easy.

	luke78:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 19:34 GMT		4 points
	julius erving was a power forward?

	jcf5445:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 20:00 GMT		4 points
	Lots of mistakes. Bill Sherman? John Haclicek? Lots of questionable positions as well, but I'm assuming that came from the source, Sports Illustrated.

	MonteCresta:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 20:07 GMT		3 points
	You suck. Learn to spell.

	tspay47:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 20:27 GMT		6 points
	no chamberlain

	CoolerKing:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 23:39 GMT		3 points
	^But should Wilt be on here over Russell? It's a tough call...

	LucasE:	Jul 9th, 2010 at 23:53 GMT		2 points
	As said above, it's "Havlicek" and Erving was not a PF.

	olegauchos:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 04:34 GMT		6 points
	It's funny that 4.3% of people got Haclicek...shows how many people replay quizzes...but there are still 4 answers guessed less often (Feerick 0.8%). So 72% of people who played it again still couldn't get Feerick. People need to learn how to cheat better.

	colorsmc2:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 05:06 GMT		2 points
	since when was Cousy a SG?

	whoweareedmonds:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 14:30 GMT		1 point
	olegauchos- I had to log in just so I could bump you up a point. Often wonder these things myself. You're messing with the curve here people!

	rsplenda477:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 15:08 GMT		2 points
	No Chamberlain???

	Kahlvin:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 15:16 GMT		1 point
	Havlicek and Sharman are both spelled wrong. Erving was not a power forward, but Barkley was. Switch Cousy and Sharman's positions, Cousy was the PG and Sharman was the SG. You have 2 different positions for West, so either pick one (either would probably be fine) or just put G. I know you got it from a source, but leaving off Wilt is very hard to swallow. He should probably be ahead of the 60s version of Pettit.

	MATTEOMATTO:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 18:06 GMT		1 point
	To echo the above comments, Wilt Chamberlain needs to be on here somewhere. The fact that he is not, just shows how arbitrary this was.

	twarner50:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 21:32 GMT		1 point
	Havlicek* Sharman* and also, and this is not your fault shakesula, but having an all-decade team BY POSITION is kinda ridiculous. Because of that, one of the best 6 players ever, Wilt Chamberlain is left off, and you have to switch around positions to get people to fit.

	heatfan99:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 21:37 GMT		0 points
	havlicek

	JakeA:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 21:42 GMT		0 points
	Cousy was most definitely a point guard Chamberlain was vastly superior to Russell, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Russell was on better teams, but even Russell acknowledges Chamberlain was better. I question the selection of Maravich, who never ever helped a team win.

	twarner50:	Dec 10th, 2010 at 21:59 GMT		0 points
	@JakeA Wait, you pile on Maravich for "never [helping] a team win" AND press Wilt over Russell??? I don't understand. Also, Russell's niceness towards Wilt means nothing; the facts that Russell was the best player in every game he played in, destroyed Wilt, won 11 championships, and never lost a game 7 do. Plus, Wilt actually played with better players- Bill Simmons covers this quite nicely in his Book of Basketball.

	RealityChuck:	Dec 11th, 2010 at 00:33 GMT		1 point
	And Chamberlain said that Russell was the better player.

	MrInfernis:	Dec 11th, 2010 at 01:49 GMT		1 point
	Olegauchos- 4.3% of people got havlicek not necessarily because they were taking the quiz twice. The C on the keyboard is right next to the V. Id say at least half of the people who who 'Haclicek' were just making typos.

	bizort:	Dec 11th, 2010 at 03:45 GMT		1 point
	spelling errors, goofy positions, and bad decisions in general with no basis for these picks whatsoever. why did you bother?

	mdobb21:	Dec 11th, 2010 at 04:11 GMT		1 point
	showing some love to the rochester royals. i like it

	TrivialSteve:	May 31st, 2011 at 23:30 GMT		1 point
	Can you link to the SI source of this? I have a hard time believing they would list some of these players at the positions you have them (Erving a PF and Bird a SF? Cousy a SG and Sharman a PG? Neil Johnston was definitely a Center and Pettit was definitely a PF.)