The Five Best Players In The NBA Today

With the lockout going strong, it made me wonder if the NBA were to have to play games with the owners and coaches in their current state, who would be the five best players. Technically they are the only real players left in the NBA so it is the only time they may be arguably the league's best. I know you think this is a stretch and it is, but since last nights Monday night football game was one of the worst I have watched in some time, I figured we could all use some intrigue and comedy to our day today.

5. Patrick Ewing

Every good team needs a big man. The only big man that comes to mind that might still be able to make it up and down the floor right now is Patrick Ewing. I doubt Pat has a lot of post up left in his body, but he can still fill it up on the baseline if he needs too.

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Are The Knicks Really Coveting Calipari

According to a source of the New York Post, Owner James Dolan of the New York Knicks may have eyes on John Calipari to coach and run the front office. The rumor states that unless the New York Knicks make a run deep into the playoffs, the team may be looking at a change up top when next season rolls around.

Maybe I missed something but what has Calipari won? He didn’t win at UMass. He didn’t win in Memphis. He is currently the coach of the University of Kentucky and coached in the NBA from 1996 to 2000, first as head coach of the New Jersey Nets and then as an assistant for the Philadelphia 76ers. His Nets went 72-112.

I am not really sure why the Knicks are so interested in making him the front guy. Maybe the post has it all wrong but this one clearly has me shaking my head. I can’t sit here and say that I am 100% behind D’Antoni, simply because of his defensive philosophy, but if I had to chose between the two, D’Antoni’s resume is much more complete.

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The 10 Best Starting Five's In College Basketball Since 1980

When putting together top 10 lists I always seem to forget about someone or some team. Today at Bull City I am going to do something that I haven’t tried to do exclusively in hoops in a while. I have chopped it up with some of the best basketball minds I know over the past few days and although we didn’t agree on every team I used, we did agree on the majority of them.

I get excited around this time of year as the college basketball teams begin their season with Midnight Madness. Just the fact that they are getting ready for the season is good enough for me because football is still going strong, however around December it's nice to have some basketball on the television during the weekdays.

I feel pretty good about my picks, and the reason I started at 1980 was because it was when I started to have a full understanding of the game and I can still remember a lot of the players from that era in college. You might not agree with the order, but you have to agree that the teams that were chosen were all worthy of top 10 contention.

I know some of you will argue that a couple of the teams didn’t win a championship but we are talking starting fives, not full team play. In a lot of cases teams had solid starting 5’s but they didn't have a strong bench or a good coach so they were unable to win a championship.

T10 - 1993 - 1994 Arkansas Razorbacks – Corliss Williamson, Scotty Thurman, Corey Beck, Dwight Stewart, Ken Bailey (40 Minutes of Hell)

T10 - 2006 - 2007 Florida Gators -  Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer, Taurean Green, and Lee Humphrey **(won the year before with the same 5 players, the only team in NCAA history to ever repeat with the same starting 5)

9 - 1983 - 1984 Georgetown Hoyas – David Wingate, Freddie Brown, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jackson, Reggie Williams.

8 - 1992 - 1993 Michigan Wolverines - Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard and Ray Jackson **(had back to back championship appearances and lost to UNC and Duke)

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