Alrighty, we've got all our GMs assembled and we're ready to draft.

For those of you who didn't see my last post or didn't follow along with all the comments, here's how this is going to work.

We will have an 8-team, 7 round draft of all NBA players, past and present. From George Mikan or Paul Shirley, they're all available. The draft will be in a snake format, where the draft order is flipped each round. I won't set a time limit on picks, cause frankly I don't think we'll really need one and it isn't a particularly long draft, but if things start stretching out too much we can institute a limit to speed things up.

Once teams are made, I'll randomize a bracket, and we'll play a single elimination tournament to decide which team of legends is the best.

To decide the winner of each game, each GM will write a post explaining why his team is superior. You are allowed and, in fact, encouraged to read your opponent's argument and point out what you see as its flaws. Any and all fellow bloggers (not just the GMs in the competition, but anyone) may then vote on who they think the winner would be. The team with the most votes wins the game and moves on to the next round. (I was thinking that each GM would post his argument to his own blog, and I would link to them both and have people vote on a post on my blog, but it was suggested that the bloggers send their arguments to me and I just post them all on here. I guess it could work either way, anyone have thoughts or opinions on this?)

Players will be considered to be in their prime, though this does not mean you cannot use their whole careers in your argument. For example, even though it wasn't his best year, you could argue that Wilt obviously knew how to pass if he wanted to seeing as he once led the league in assists.

If you have any questions, make sure to ask and I'd be happy to answer.

Edit: DrMidnight is running commentary on this draft over on his blog. Make sure to check it out.

The participating GMs will be

xphoenix87
ricko
Hoffman
AK47spiderman
JoshQPublic
dehbashi
GR8ONE54
genez13

Everybody needs to come up with a team name and give it to me, cause team names are just awesome.

I ran our names through a randomizer and got this for the draft order.

1 - xphoenix87
2 - dehbashi
3 - JoshQPublic
4 - genez13
5 - ricko
6 - GR8ONE54
7 - Hoffman
8 - AK47spiderman

So, with all that said, ON TO THE DRAFT!! Below I'll list the full draft board, and I'll be updating it as frequently as possible with all the picks.

1 - xphoenix87 - Michael "Air" Jordan
2 - dehbashi - Tim "Big Fundamental" Duncan
3 - JoshQPublic - Bill Russell
4 - genez13 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson
5 - ricko - Larry "The Hick From French Lick" Bird
6 - GR8ONE54 - Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain
7 - Hoffman - Kareem "The Captain" Abdul-Jabbar
8 - AK47spiderman - Oscar "Big O" Robertson
9 - AK47spiderman - "Dr." Julius Erving
10 - Hoffman - Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon
11 - GR8ONE54 - Bob "The Houdini of the Hardwood" Cousy
12 - ricko - Kobe "Black Mamba" Bryant
13 - genez13 - Shaquille "Fat Kid Motivator" O'Neal
14 - JoshQPublic - Jerry "The Logo" West
15 - dehbashi - Nate "The Great" Thurmond
16 - xphoenix87 - Moses Malone
17 - xphoenix87 - John Stockton
18 - dehbashi - Clyde "The Glide" Drexler
19 - JoshQPublic - Kevin McHale
20 - genez13 - Karl "The Mailman" Malone
21 - ricko - Elvin "The Big E" Hayes
22 - GR8ONE54 - Scottie Pippen
23 - Hoffman - Isiah "Zeke" Thomas
24 - AK47spiderman - John "Hondo" Havlicek
25 - AK47spiderman - Bob Pettit
26 - Hoffman - "Big Game" James Worthy
27 - GR8ONE54 - Reggie "Miller Time" Miller
28 - ricko - Steve "Kid Canada" Nash
29 - genez13 - Rick "Greyhound" Barry
30 - JoshQPublic - Elgin Baylor
31 - dehbashi- "Pitchin" Paul Azrin
32 - xphoenix87 - Lebron "King" James
33 - xphoenix87 - Kevin "The Big Ticket" Garnett
34 - dehbashi - George "The Iceman" Gervin
35 - JoshQPublic - Walt "Clyde" Frazier
36 - genez13 - Allen "The Answer" Iverson
37 - ricko - David "The Admiral" Robinson
38 - GR8ONE54 - Dominique "The Human Highlight Film" Wilkins
39 - Hoffman - Earl "The Pearl" Monroe
40 - AK47spiderman - "Sir" Charles "Round Mound of the Rebound" Barkley
41 - AK47spiderman - George "Mr Basketball" Mikan
42 - Hoffman - David "Skywalker" Thompson
43 - GR8ONE54 - Bill Walton
44 - ricko - Alex English
45 - genez13 - "Pistol" Pete Maravich
46 - JoshQPublic - Dave "Big D" Debusschere
47 - dehbashi - Jason Kidd
48 - xphoenix87 - Wes Unseld
49 - xphoenix87 - Bruce Bowen
50 - dehbashi - Jerry Lucas
51 - JoshQPublic - Nate "Tiny" Archibald
52 - genez13 - Patrick Ewing
53 - ricko - Joe Dumars
54 - GR8ONE54 - Dwayne Wade
55 - Hoffman - Chris Mullin
56 - AK47spiderman - Dikembe Mutumbo