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and have the number one pick in the draft. The top five players each play a different position (1,2,3,4, and 5), and all have similar stats and abilities with no injury history or attitude/legal issues. Which position do you draft and why?

I say point guard. I think an excellent point guard makes an average center good or a good center great. An excellent center may put up fantastic stats but doesn't necessarily win a lot of games or a championship. I feel the same about the other positions. Who would you draft and why?

Answer 1

I'd pick a center because they always say you don't win a ring without a big man( so a PF would work also). Because look at the Celtics this year they just had an average point gaurd.  The player who has won the most NBA titles is Bill Russel a center

      But I do agree with you that a point gaurd would be a big help also.  You realy can't go wrong with picking a player like Greg Oden or Derrick Rose.

Answer 2

If your looking for point guard in later rounds brandon Roy has been getting very good and is still young and big men like dwight howard would make a great compliment to him and you should probablyy get a good sf/ sg like Andre igudala  

Answer 3

You need to pay attention to NBA history. The player to draft is a center. The Milwaukee Bucks were nothing, drafted Kareem Abdul Jabbar and two years later were in the NBA Finals. The Portland Trailblazers were a so-so team and then drafted Bill Walton and soon went to the NBA Finals. The New York Knicks had wallowed in the cellar for more than a decade and then drafted Patrick Ewing and were contenders in the East for years, going to the Finals once. The Houston Rockets were an also-ran and then drafted Hakeem Olajuwon and went to the finals numerous times. The Orlando Magic were an expansion team and drafted Shaquille O'Neal and later went to the NBA finals.

The list goes on and on with centers. There has been only 1 guard that made such an impact so quickly - Magic Johnson, and his team already had a dominant center in Kareem. There has been only 1 forward that made that type of impact so quickly - Larry Bird.

Look at your recent history. The teams that win in the Finals dominate the paint both offensively and defensively. Their point guards are solid but not spectacular. Do you really think the NBA Finals were won due to the work of Rajon Rondo or KG? Who are the best point guards in the NBA? Nash, Davis, Iverson, Williams, Paul, Kidd are generally considered the best point guards in the NBA. Among them only 2 (Iverson and Kidd) have been the the NBA Finals and they had a lot of help when they did.

Answer 4

I take the centre. You cannot teach height and that gives him the the best of the bunch.

Of the teams who have won a championship in the last decade, only one had their best player as the PG (Detroit) and even that is debatable.

Bigs make the world go round.

Answer 5

If they all play different positions but have similar stats then it would depend on what those stats are!  I wouldn't want my C or PF averaging 2 rebounds a game even if they can average 10 assists.

Aside from that, if I am picking by position then I would pick the center first if he is a "true" center (think Shaq in his prime, Olajuwon, Ewing, David Robinson).  Quality big men are just too hard to come by these days.  

Just think - there are a decent handful of "star" PGs out there (Paul, Williams, Davis, Nash, Kidd, Arenas, Billups, Bibby, Parker and plenty more adequate players), but how many good true centers are out there today?  Dwight Howard, Yao Ming, Shaq (maybe 5 years ago)?  Don't forget, ANY truly great player can make everyone else around them better irrespective of what position they play.