What if NBA players played for their hometown teams?

[BallIsLife2]

What if NBA players played for their hometown teams?

What would teams like the Bucks, Wizrds, Lakers, or Magic look like?

[CelticPride]

Re: What if NBA players played for their hometown teams?

Tom Heinsohn.

[Bawstun]

Re: What if NBA players played for their hometown teams?

Well...of the top of my head:

LeBron(oh, wait...)
Derrick Rose
Chauncey Billups played for Denver

[Checmate101]

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DMV

PG: Ty Lawson
SG:Rudy Gay
SF:Kevin Durant
PF:Jeff Green
C: Roy Hibbert

Delonte West
Michael Beasley
Daunte Cunningham
Keith Bogans
Greivis Vasquez
Roger Mason
Sam Young
Grant Hill (retired)

depends on who you are: Carmelo Anthony

[z Revis]

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Off the top of my head.. the Pacers would have Greg Oden, Mike Conley, Eric Gordon, Zach Randolph, George Hill(already have him), Gordon Hayward, Tyler Zeller, the Teague brothers and that's all I can think of right now.

I guess we can also include this years draft so we'd also have Cody Zeller. Unfortunately no Oladipo since he's from Maryland.

No real superstars and that's surprising for as many great high school players that come out of Indiana. Although if we were talking about all time then we'd have Larry Bird and Oscar Robertson.

EDIT:

Starting 5 would look something like:

Mike Conley
Eric Gordon
Gordon Hayward
Zach Randolph
Cody Zeller

I don't know about Zeller starting right away and I also think he'll end up playing more at the 4 in the NBA anyway, but unless Oden is fully healthy there's no one else to play center aside from Tyler Zeller.

I don't know about the bench situation. Jeff Teague would definitely backup Conley and George Hill would be the 2nd 2 guard. Oden would backup Zeller. After that I don't know since we don't have another SF or PF. Guess Tyler Zeller can play at the 4 behind Randolph?

Either way it wouldn't be a bad team. I like the current Pacers squad better though. lol

[dunnyduns]

Re: What if NBA players played for their hometown teams?

Off the top of my head.. the Pacers would have Greg Oden, Mike Conley, Eric Gordon, Zach Randolph, George Hill(already have him), Gordon Hayward, Tyler Zeller, the Teague brothers and that's all I can think of right now.

I guess we can also include this years draft so we'd also have Cody Zeller. Unfortunately no Oladipo since he's from Maryland.

No real superstars and that's surprising for as many great high school players that come out of Indiana. Although if we were talking about all time then we'd have Larry Bird and Oscar Robertson.

EDIT:

Starting 5 would look something like:

Mike Conley
Eric Gordon
Gordon Hayward
Zach Randolph
Cody Zeller

I don't know about Zeller starting right away and I also think he'll end up playing more at the 4 in the NBA anyway, but unless Oden is fully healthy there's no one else to play center aside from Tyler Zeller.

I don't know about the bench situation. Jeff Teague would definitely backup Conley and George Hill would be the 2nd 2 guard. Oden would backup Zeller. After that I don't know since we don't have another SF or PF. Guess Tyler Zeller can play at the 4 behind Randolph?

Either way it wouldn't be a bad team. I like the current Pacers squad better though. lol

You could add a couple more bench players in Courtney Lee and Josh McRoberts along with end of the bench high five guys in Miles Plumlee, E'Twaun Moore and Jared Jeffries.

Also, along with Zeller in the draft there is Mason Plumlee and Deshaun Thomas as well.

Conley and Jeff Teague would be a vast improvement over what the Pacers currently had this past season at PG. Randolph and West would probably be a push. George Hill would obviously be the same. Still I wouldn't trade this team hometown team for the current Pacers, but the bench would be better not like that would be a hard thing not to improve on.

[Majingir]

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Not exactly home city, but close enough isn't it....Bobcats/Hornets(Charlotte) would get all the UNC and USC guys wouldn't they?

lol, thankfully sports never went down that route where guys were only allowed to play for their hometown city(and ONLY if their hometown city didn't have a team,they were allowed to play for other teams). Can imagine just how different sports would've been if like 100-150 years ago, that's the rule that was decided and was kept ever since.

I'm guessing Raptors would get all Canadian players then lol, best of Canada still wouldn't be enough to compete in NBA sadly lol.

[jj06]

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ill add my state

the Georgia team:

Dwight Howard
Josh Smith
Al-Farouq Aminu
Jae Crowder
Andrew Goudelock
J.J. Hickson
Jodie Meeks
Jordan Hill
Toney Douglas
Lou Williams

LOT of size on this team...would love to see something like this where guys play on their hometown teams during the summer

[BallIsLife2]

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Lakers have a nice squad.

PG: Russell Westbrook
SG: James Harden
SF: Paul Pierce
PF: Brook Lopez
C: Tyson Chandler

Not everyone is from LA but California in general.

[jj06]

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Lakers have a nice squad.

PG: Russell Westbrook
SG: James Harden
SF: Paul Pierce
PF: Brook Lopez
C: Tyson Chandler

Not everyone is from LA but California in general.

not fair..Cali would have to be divided up.

[Chrisksaint]

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The Pelicans would be pretty bad, off the top of my head players from the area:

Glen Davis
Marcus Thornton
DJ Augustin
Danny Granger
Greg Monroe
Brandon Bass
Paul Millsap

All time you could thrown Karl Malone in there

[BringTheHeat]

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Just doing colleges, Oklahoma's starting 5 would be:

PG: John Lucas
SG: Tony Allen
SF: James Andersen
PF: Blake Griffin
C: Jerome Jordan



Could probably beat the Bobcats

[BDKiiing]

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PG: Devin Harris
SG: Wesley Matthews
SF: Steve Novak
PF: Carl Landry
C: Greg Stiemsma

With Joe Wolf as the Head Coach, with Nick Van Exel and Tony Bennett as assistants.

If this was the case, Latrell Spreewell might come back to pay off his 3.5 million in back taxes.

[FaM0us Skins]

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Ohio

PG: Stephen Curry
SG: Kevin Martin
SF: Lebron James
PF: Jared Sullinger
C: Byron Mullens

[ClutchCity]

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Houston, Texas

PG Daniel Gibson
SG Gerald Green
SF Jimmy Butler
PF Emaka Okafor
C Deandre Jordan

Bench

Rashard Lewis
Kendrick Perkins
Chris Anderson "Birdman"
Cartier Martin
John Lucas III
T.J Ford
Stephan Jackson

All-time
Clyde "the glide" Drexler