Barack Obama names his all-time NBA starting 5

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4. So it begins. Magic was the best point guard. Period.

and I hated the Lakers.

Curry is a shooter’s shooter. He’s a better shooter than MJ.

Center. Whew. Hakeem was transformative but the best? I’d go with Wilt. Stick Wilt in even today and he covers a lot of ground. Mention of Arvydas Sabonis is required.

Some mention needs to be paid to Moses. Moses was any era.

Two we didn’t get to see were Len Bias (🤬 ) and Dražen Petrović. Dražen reshaped my game when I saw him play (yes the Nets were on TV from time to time) on the one game a week we got in AFN when I was in the Army. He was one of the early Euro players.